SSRS OCF Connector Release Notes

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

October 01, 2024

SSRS OCF Connector: Version 1.3.0

Enhancements

Improved Extraction Features

The connector now extracts dataset fields and embedded datasets that are visible in the Catalog and the Lineage graph. (AL-171523)

Support for Lineage

The connector now supports table-level and column-level lineage with SQL Server as the connector extracts SQL query, host and port connection information of SQL server-based datasets. This enables Alation to support lineage mapping between RDBMS tables, datasets and reports. (AL-171523)

Note

Column-level lineage is supported when the names of the RDBMS table columns, dataset and report fields names match.

July 10, 2024

SSRS OCF Connector: Version 1.2.3

Fixed Issues

Metadata Extraction Fails

Metadata Extraction fails when there are any skippable errors during extraction.

This issue is fixed. Now,  the connector skips such errors and continues with the extraction to ensure maximum objects are extracted and cataloged. (AL-156584).

April 10, 2024

SSRS OCF Connector: Version 1.2.2

Fixed Issues

Metadata Extraction Fails with Errors

Metadata Extraction (MDE) for SSRS OCF connector fails with various errors.

Alation has improved the error handling for SSRS OCF connector to address some of the errors that appear while running MDE for SSRS data source. The connector now logs the errors causing the failures an allows the Metadata Extraction to continue. (AL-144685 & AL-146517)