17^th February 2022 (Europe 1)¶

Scope¶

We have worked hard to deliver a great MindSphere experience, but we are still tracking some known issues. If you find others, please give us your feedback by contacting our MindSphere Support.

We recommend that you read the following release notes carefully. These notes contain important information for installation and use.

This Release Notes is relevant for MindSphere region Europe 1, for release in February 2022.

Asset Manager¶

Applicable for:

• IIoT for Makers

Known issues¶

• If a VFC workflow for an asset in a subtenant exists, it is not shown in the respective tile in the Asset Manager for a tenant admin.
• The Fleet Manager navigation is not working correctly if you have to re-login, as query parameters are lost. This problem will be addressed soon. Please try again by clicking the Fleet Manager navigation button.
• If you are using app specific roles, you need to assign plugin roles as well. This is now only possible for MindConnect LIB plugin, MindConnect Nano and MindConnect IoT2040.
• The Connectivity Management view currently only shows assets derived by BasicAgent, MindConnect Nano, MindConnect IoT2040, MindConnect Library or Industrial Edge or a derived type of the mentioned ones.

Asset Management API¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?¶

• The following Asset Manager APIs will be standardized with page size of 200 in order to improve API performance.
• GET assetmgmturl/assets?size=200
• GET assettypemgmturl/assettypes?size=200
• GET assettypemgmturl/aspecttypes?size=200

Known issues¶

• Currently, it is possible to use a variable name equal to the aspect name which leads to errors, for example in Fleet Manager.

Closed Loop Digital Twin¶

Applicable for:

For Subscribers of Capability package

• Premium Capability package

What's new?¶

• With this release, we have improved the user experience for the customer and have laid foundation for next set of enhancements on our Digital Twin offering journey.
• Within this release, we have consolidated the Digital Twin applications into two broad areas. To focus on design and performance aspect of connected-products, we are releasing
• Digital Twin application called Product Twin. It will focus on simulation based digital twin and supplement it with product definition data used in lifecycle management. Product Twin works with out-of-the-box connector to Simcenter Amesim™ 2020.1 as well as Teamcenter™
  The second application called Factory Twin focuses on the production and performance areas of a connected-shopfloor. Out-of-the-box connector to Tecnomatix Plant Simulation™ is provided with this release which works seamlessly with Factory Twin application.

Cloud Foundry¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Additional Information

• Available and Updated buildpacks:

• PostgreSQL11 Migration Assist is available. It is recommended to migrate your a9s PostgreSQL 9.4. The version 9.4 is deprecated and will be removed in the future.https:// developer.mindsphere.io/paas/a9s-postgresql/using html#migrate-the-service-instance-toanother-postgresql-version-into-new-postgresql-instance
• Please note that redis32 and rabbitmq36 are going to be deprecated and might be removed in the future.
• Buildpack version deprecation warnings:

• The first release of the Ruby buildpack after 2021-04-23 will no longer include ruby versions 2.5.x.
  The first release of the Go buildpack after 2021-04-23 will no longer include Go versions 1.14.x.

• Parachute values added to Backing Service Metrics API - You can now see the Parachute threshold and if your Backing Services was stopped or is going to be stopped.

• Backing Service Backup Page added to LogMe Service Dashboard. The Kibana Page can be opened with a link on Backing Service Backup Page.

Container Registry¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Fixed issues¶

• Fixed a sporadic HTTP ERROR 431

Cross-Tenancy¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• Only single asset sharing is available in the first release.
• Sharing of assets derived from basicAgent and their corresponding plugins is not yet supported.
• Tenant assets cannot be moved under collaborators root asset or shared assets.
• The successful implementation of a new sharing is normally completed within 2 minutes. If the new sharing is not successful within this time, the internal retry mechanism starts automatically after 4 minutes to complete the sharing. This issue will be addressed soon to prevent delays in the implementation.

Data Exploration built on Tableau®¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• If you receive NULL values for timestamps on a Windows PC, please change your language for non-Unicode programs to English (United States). You'll find the settings in Control Panel → Region and Language → Administrative.

Developer Cockpit¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• Currently, it is not possible to call MindSphere Core API's (e.g. Asset Management) from API Apps when using them as external dependencies from Standard Application hosted on different tenant.
• Currently, not all roles and scopes are supported by Custom App Credentials. In this case, use the other provided options.
• Application versions that contain a "#" character cannot be deployed in the Operator Cockpit. We advise customers not to use "#" in production version strings.
• Applications cannot be deleted after being transferred to the production system.
• the System is automatically suggesting an Internal App Name and an Initial Version for more convenience.
• Layout issues in Internet Explorer 11 in combination with high resolution displays and 125 % font scaling.

Edge Analytics¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known Issues¶

• Note: When executing too many Analysis Packages with a Trigger Rule of condition type "Continuous", the CPU performance of the Edge Device can easily be exceeded. Also in other scenarios dependent of tasks running in parallel on the Edge Device, CPU load and also memory usage can get too high. Please check the Edge Analytics log for corresponding warnings.
• When uploading Event Based Data Upload or Data Upload package to an Edge Device and there are no enabled input signals within the Analysis Package configuration, the update ends in error state "Prepare Environment or Update/Start Configuration". Having critical error message in User Logs.
• Deactivating a data point within a MindConnect data source will not deactivate a connection check in Edge Analytics Engine. This can lead to an error if the target device is no longer available.
• A Bugfix has been introduced for Custom Analysis Packages, which can lead to incompatible existing Templates. In this case please export the flow and recreated the Custom Analysis Package.
• In case the Cycle Time for a Custom Analysis Package is put to the template UI, an input value is overwritten with the default value.
• It is recommended to use at minimum Mozilla version 78.0.2 or Microsoft Edge version 83. To ensure the app will be loaded correct.

Identity and Access Management¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• If you have problems logging off in Internet Explorer 11, please refer to Overcoming Logout Problems in IE11.
• App specific roles:
• Additional core app roles are coming soon.
• Some apps are still accessible via their direct URL and allow the use of shared functionality if the user has been granted rights via the app-specific role of a different app.

Integrated Data Lake¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• In Time Series Import user interface, the user can only view first level of child asset at the moment when importing the time series data. The workaround for this approach is to use backend API to import data related to multiple child assets
• It is observed that browser crashes randomly when trying to download files > 400MB. It is advisable to use backend API for downloading objects > 400MB
• When uploading the data using cross account access via native applications e.g. AWS CLI, the default permission is set to user of the account. The user has to provide the parameter (--acl bucket-owner-full-control) so the bucket owner (Integrated Data Lake) will get the necessary access to generate pre-signed URLs.

IoT and Storage Services: File Service¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• For security reasons, a strict timeout is enforced. Currently, this leads to the situation that the size of a file which can be uploaded/ downloaded depends on the network bandwidth at client side.
• When uploading files to the File Service, a file name cannot contain blank spaces. Blank spaces in the file name will prevent the file from being stored.
• After deleting an asset, the associated files might still be accessible for up to 30 minutes as this data is deleted asynchronously.
• After deleting a file, it will take some time (up to 60 seconds) to create the file with the same name again.
• After creating or deleting the file, it will take some time (up to 3 seconds) to get the file in "search file" API.

IoT and Storage Services: Time Series Service¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• The maximum payload size of a message sent to Time Series Service as part of a PUT request cannot exceed 1 MB, out of which 400 KB is reserved for internal use.
• The service will never return more than 2000 records in a response.
• After deleting an asset, respective time series data might still be accessible for sometimeas this data is deleted asynchronously.
• When getting the job status of a bulk import job, the response might not always contain detailed information on errors that occurred.
• When ingesting time series data for multiple asset and aspects in single request, the combination of records should be unique.
• Get Latest Value with query parameter "latestValue = true" will work with a delay up to 2 hours from the time of ingestion. Refer to developer documentation 'sample' section for more information.
• While using Get Latest Value with query parameter "latestValue = true", historic/late arriving data may take more than 1 day to reflect in the response.

IoT and Storage Services: Aggregates Service¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Advance information¶

• IoT timeseries Aggregate V3 API is planned to be deprecated by mid of April' 2022. Please migrate to upgraded version V4 API. For more information, refer the following:
• V3.x to V4.x Migration Guide
• Version 4.x - What's New?

OIA Visualizer¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?¶

• Within this release, we have improved "Increased Data Modeling Flexibility (IDMF)" wherein, Asset Management enhances the support to provide the capability to edit the existing Asset Type and Aspect Type.
• With this release, Operations Insight Dashboard adapts the IDMF changes to ensure that the user is notified to rework on the dashboard when the underlying data model is edited.

Operator Cockpit¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• Limitations for update of Cloud Foundry applications:
• The service instance names for each service should be same in the current and new version of the application. If the service instance names are different in the new version and the existing version of an application, then the existing service instances will not be readily available even after zero-downtime version upgrade.

• During manual deployment of a new version of an application, do not use the same component names as available in the existing version. This might create name conflicts and usability issues. In order to avoid such conflicts, while deploying a new version of an application, append green at the end of the component name.

• For every individual (single) application, one Cloud Foundry space must be deployed.

• After modifying the authorization of a user via the Operator Cockpit user interface, the change is not immediately visible. The user has to close the browser and log in again.
• After deployment of an app, there is a security feature in place validating if the app is known to MindSphere or the app has somehow been modified. Sometimes issues occur with regards to name changes or deploying from various folders. The apps need to be deployed as they are assigned from the developer.

Operations Insight¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers
• Start for free Subscribers

What's new?¶

• Within this release, it is possible to acess AI for Everyone from the user interface of Operations Insight. It offers you an out-of-the-box journey to create predictive models for forecasting on your time series data, using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. This is an easy and efficient way for you to leverage your time series data and achieve immediate insights following the steps below:
• Prepare dataset from Asset model, assign target & predictors, and configure mathematic parameters for forecasting generation.
• Quickly view forecasting results of predicted time series values, predictors importance, model accuracy metrics, historic forecasting records, etc.

Known issues¶

• This application is only supported on a normal desktop computer, and is not supported on mobile devices like tablets.
• Work orders are not supported for sub-tenants
• Rules are not enabled for sub-tenant users

Fixed issues¶

• Within this release, we have fixed the following:
• issue with quota message in rules, which overlaps the paging controls
• issue that users settings could not be saved sporadically
• issue with time selection in timeseries plugin

Predictive Learning¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?¶

• Within this release, provisioning of PRL add-on package with newer pricing and package offering is enabled.

Settings¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?¶

• In the Settings application, you will find a new tab called "Policies" which you can use to create access policies for your users and assets as well as IDL files (if available in your environment). These access policies allow you to configure fine-grained access.
  During the first stage of our roll out we only grant access to the new feature set upon request. To utilize our Resource Access Management service, please contact your sales representative or our customer service.

Start for Free¶

What's new?¶

• Forecasting is available as part of Start for free. For more information, refer to the "Operations Insight" section in the current Release Notes.

Known issues¶

• Start for Free is only compatible with a web browser and therefore cannot be launched from a mobile browser.
• The creation of tenant takes approximately 2 minutes.
• If the TourGuide is interrupted, check that your internet connection is stable. If this is not the problem, then re-launch the user journey from your Launchpad.
• The data coming from the simulated pump asset will only be available the first 7 days after account creation.
• While trying to launch an auto registered app which was created with the same name as that of a deleted app, "Forbidden" error occurs.
  Workaround: The issue does not occur if you re-launch the browser after registration and then launch the app again.
• For tenants with Enabled Session Persistency (see documentation), it is not recommended to use Google Chrome in incognito mode.

Subtenant Functionality¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• Applications can use the subtenant functionality via the provided APIs. Tenant administrators should pay attention when assigning such apps to subtenant users as subtenant isolation cannot be ensured by the platform. The app might expose data to the user that is not intended to be seen.
• When moving an asset from a parent tenant to a subtenant, there might be a delay of up to 30 minutes until a subtenant user will be able to see data related to that asset.
• Please be aware, if you provide a user (even subtenant user) the role "mdsp:core:TenantAdmin", this user is then able to get access to all kinds of tenant data.

Upgrade¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• Currently no personalized notifications for subscriptions (TenantAdmin) or subscription requests (StandardUser) are available.
• Purchasing request notifications are send to all tenant admins.
• Upgrade is providing a fast provisional access to the requested quota. It requires an approval by the commercial contact who will be informed separately.
• Supported Language: English only.
• Supported Currency: EUR only.

Visual Explorer¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues¶

• For using Visual Explorer and Visual Explorer Connector, a minimum screen size of 800x600 is required.
• Any request within Visual Explorer is limited to an execution time of 60 sec.
• The "share via link" functionality works unreliable.
• For the time series data type "LONG", only safe integer values are supported from (-2⁵³+1 to (2⁵³-1). Values outside of that range will be reset to safe integer values, example: 2⁶³ will be reset to 2⁵³-1.

Visual Flow Creator¶

Applicable for:

• MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers
• MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?¶

• Visual Explorer provides the functionality to create data sources dynamically using an API. The added nodes in Visual Flow Creator provide direct and easy to use access to this interface. This allows the user to create a new data source whenever a process completes or a specific shift ends using an event-driven Visual Flow Creator flow to prepare the required datasets used in dashboards or reports in Visual Explorer automatically.

Known issues:¶

• Subtenant users cannot use the time series subscription node.
• Compute hours are assigned to the main tenant only. This means that VFC cannot be used with additional test tenants.

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