Toad DevOps Toolkit Release Notes

Toad^® DevOps Toolkit 1.4

Release Notes

6/29/2021

These release notes provide information about the Toad DevOps Toolkit release.

About this release

Toad DevOps Toolkit 1.4 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality.

About Toad DevOps Toolkit

Toad DevOps Toolkit exposes key Toad for Oracle functionality (such as Code Analysis and Unit Testing) as programmable objects that can be called from DevOps scripts such as PowerShell or Visual Basic. This enables you to include database-development steps into your Continuous Integration model through tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo. What this all really means is that the deployment of Oracle application and database upgrades is now made much easier, keeping your team more productive and your end users satisfied with their business tools.

Toad DevOps Toolkit is standalone and independent from Toad for Oracle. The only requirement is that a Code Tester for Oracle repository is installed on the same system as Toad DevOps Toolkit. For version requirements, see the System Requirements.

Toad resources

The parent site for all Toad family products is ToadWorld.com. There you will find videos, blogs, and much more.

The home of the Toad DevOps Toolkit community is https://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-devops-toolkit. Keep checking this site as Toad DevOps Toolkit continues to grow and add features to help you increase your productivity.

Two of the most-often used features of Toad World are the Forums and the Idea Pond. Find the Toad DevOps Toolkit Forum at: https://forums.toadworld.com/c/toad-devops-toolkit. Find the Toad DevOps Toolkit Idea Pond at: https://forums.toadworld.com/c/toad-devops-toolkit/idea-pond.

• On the Idea Pond page, you can submit your ideas to improve Toad DevOps Toolkit and vote for other ideas. The Toad team takes your suggestions seriously, and you may even hear back from one of our developers on the topic. We encourage all Toad users from new to experienced to let us know how we can improve Toad.
• On the Forum page, you can ask a question or start a discussion and view all other forums within the Toad community.

The Toad World blog pages feature a broad range of information, including topics of interest to our industry, as well as instructions from team members on how to use the latest Toad features.

System requirements

Hardware requirements

Database requirements

Additional requirements

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is required to run the Quest Installer, which installs Toad DevOps Toolkit.
• Microsoft ASP.NET Core 3.1 and .NET Core 3.1 are required to run the REST API.
• If you want to run unit testing for database objects, a Code Tester repository (3.2 or greater) must exist on the system where Toad DevOps Toolkit is being used.

Windows Privileges

In order to run Toad DevOps Toolkit against the database, the following privileges are required:

New features

Toad DevOps Toolkit 1.4

REST API Security

All requests must supply an API token to validate the request. Failure to do so results in an error response status code.

• Visit https://localhost:5000/ in your browser to generate or later refresh the token's value
  • This step must be performed using a Windows Administrator account
  • If the REST API has been configured to listen on a different port then use the new port in the URL
• Supply the token with each request by including the X-Api-Key header and using the token as its value

Toad DevOps Toolkit 1.3

REST API

A new REST API has been added. The REST API runs a localhost web service that listens on port 5000, by default.

Perform the following steps to change the port:

• Stop the "Quest Software Toad DevOps Toolkit (REST)" Windows Service
• Edit the ".\Service\appsettings.json" file found in Toad DevOps Tookit installation folder and change the port to a new value
• Start the "Quest Software Toad DevOps Toolkit (REST)" Windows Service

Code Analysis Enhancements

• Running a Code Analysis now returns a result code. This allows you to execute a second action based on the result code returned after running a Code Analysis.
• A new property, RulesetName, allows you to find the list of available ruleset names so you can choose a ruleset (pre-defined or user-defined).

Discontinued features

Licensing Manager. Beginning with Toad DevOps Toolkit 1.2, the Licensing Manager is no longer available. For more information about managing Toad DevOps Toolkit licenses, see the Toad DevOps Toolkit Installation Guide and Toad DevOps Toolkit Help.