Data Focus Release Notes¶

Software Version: 3.1.0

Publication Date: June 2026

What's New¶

Added CData ODBC support, enabling connectivity to more than 60 SQL and NoSQL databases through a unified interface.
Introduced Agentic GRO-based Ask AI capabilities for Dictionary Rule creation, Business Glossary management, and Rule creation. Users can generate keywords, definitions, descriptions, related terms, and regex patterns using natural language prompts.
Added AI-assisted review capabilities to the Discovery process. Users can analyze SUSPECT columns with AI recommendations and receive automated actions such as CONFIRM, OVERRIDE, FALSE_POSITIVE, or IGNORE when confidence is sufficient.
Added a dedicated Audit Log page for monitoring user activities, with filtering options based on user, date range, and action type.
Added Discovery Monitoring and Audit Log Export capabilities to improve operational visibility and reporting.
Added a centralized System Parameters Management page for secure, group-based management of runtime configuration parameters.
Added a new Algorithm rule type to support secure execution of external Groovy scripts for rule engines, dynamic calculations, and user-defined formulas.
Added detailed error log visibility to the Test Suite and Profile pages through the View Log functionality.

Enhanced Discovery scans with an option to automatically exclude columns previously marked as false positives from subsequent scans.
Activated domain hierarchy support across the platform and enabled its usage within Retention and Datasource Asset Search modules.
Expanded metadata constraint visibility to display CHECK, DEFAULT, UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, NULL, and NOT NULL constraints.
Added support for the MODIFY operation within Catalog Comparison processes.
Enhanced metadata discovery by providing automatic recommendations when schema or table include/exclude filters are used.
Improved Scan Create workflows by enabling automatic governance information transfer, automatic catalog comparison, and Integro-based email notifications.
Standardized application error handling by converting error messages into documented error codes.
Added unique component identifiers across the user interface to improve automated testing reliability and maintainability.

Added Oracle 11g support through Oracle 19c Instant Client integration and enhanced backend connectivity logic for legacy Oracle environments.
Enhanced Oracle datasource configuration by introducing legacy connection handling for Oracle 11g databases.