Open Pace 3.0.2 is the last planned Open Source deployment of the Pace Application Suite. This release delivers some minor bug fixes, product improvements, as well as Open Pace re-branding modifications.

Most of the modifications delivered in Open Pace 3.0 and Open Pace 3.0.2 are cosmetic in nature. However some of these re-branding changes will directly impact the implementation, installation, and upgrade of Pace (see below and the 3.0.0.0 Release Notes):

Open Pace Server

Bug

Open Pace Client

Improvement

• [TTN-2707] - Test Harness Rebranding
• [TTN-2708] - Stress Tester Rebranding
• [TTN-2709] - Pace API Rebranding
• [TTN-2710] - Pace Client GUI Modifications (Rebranding)

Open Pace Administration Console

Bug

• [TTN-2555] - Create new project wizard using Essbase outline does not handle invalid connector well
• [TTN-2670] - Problem with importing a project after a fresh AC installation
• [TTN-2685] - Investigate and address Support Request issues on fresh AC/Pace Install
• [TTN-2715] - No response from Test Application Button when Server Connector is first created
• [TTN-2717] - Can't set "Default Server" on new project
• [TTN-2720] - Upload User Security option missing from individual Security User node
• [TTN-2731] - Set Default Server on Project Import
• [TTN-2732] - Set Enabled box as default when Adding new Server Connector

Open Pace 3.0.0.x - Known Issues

Default Pace Server Installation with Shared Derby Instance

An issue arises when the default Pace Server installation process is used to create an addtional Pace Server instance that shares the Derby instance from a Pace Server instance installed on the same server environment. The Derby "hibernate.connection.url" values (for each of the 3 Derby databases) will be slightly off resutling in errors when attempting to start the second Pace Server instance.

See line 09 - "....Derby/SVR1/data/SVR11/paceclientcache.." should be "....Derby/SVR1/data/SVR1/paceclientcache.."

<list>
  <RdbProps>
    <name>pafClientCache</name>
    <hibernateProperties>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="pafsys"/>
      <property name="hibernate.use_identifier_rollback" value="true"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/C:/Program Files/Open Pace/Derby/SVR1/data/SVR11/pafclientcache"/>
      <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false"/>
      <property name="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer" value="false"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver"/>
    </hibernateProperties>
    <version>1</version>
  </RdbProps>

The workaround is to manually edit the "paceRDBClientDataSources.xml" of the additional Pace Server instances, fix the "hibernate.connection.url" scripts, and restart the Pace Server.

Pace Admin Console & Internet Explorer Compatibility

The Open Pace Administration Console requires Internet Explorer 11 to be installed on any machine that the Administration Console is installed on. See the Open Pace Compatibility Guide for more information.

Session Locks

Session locks is an Open Pace Client feature that was implemented in 2.8.4.0. Though enabled, the locking of Attribute intersections in the Session Lock Grid is not supported at this time, do to some known issues.

<isMeasureAlloc> Tag

A new Pace rule tag called "<isMeasureAlloc>" has been added for future use. It should not be used at this time. (The default value is "false").

Importing Cell Notes & Member Tags from all versions of Open Pace prior to 2.8.2

This issue impacts the upgrade process of any version of Open Pace prior to version 2.8.2 

The Open Pace Administration Console, versions 2.8.2 and above, can't import Cell Notes/Member Tags exported in a binary format from any version of Open Pace version prior to 2.8.2. 

However, Cell Notes/Member Tags exported in an XML format, from Open Pace 2.8.1.1 or older, can be imported into Open Pace 2.8.2 or higher, after first manually modifying the export file using the following procedures:

1. Make a backup copy of the Cell Notes/Member Tags XML export file 
2. Open the Cell Notes/Member Tags export file in a text/XML editor (Notepad++, a free open-source multi-file type text editor is a good one, but any text editor that can handle large files will suffice)
3. Replace all the occurrences of "com.palladium.paf.server.client" with “com.pace.server.client”
4. Save these changes and close the text editor.

The default file type for import/exporting Cell Notes/Member Tags has been changed to 'XML',  from 'Binary', in this release.

Program%20Files folder

The creation of this folder on the Pace Server is a by-product of Pace Server start up process. This is a known JBoss issue and should be resolved in the next Open Pace release, when a more recent version of JBoss is bundled with Pace.

JBoss is the default Java application server bundled with Open Pace

Automated Pace Service Install/Uninstall

Now, when then Pace Server is installed on a computer running Microsoft Windows, the Pace Server installer will attempt to install the Pace and Derby servers as Microsoft Windows services. If these services already exist (from a previous Pace Server installation), this step will silently fail with no adverse effects. 

Correspondingly, now when the Pace Server is uninstalled, the Pace and Derby services will be automatically removed.