Xoom 3.4

This release contains significant improvements in the coverage of recent Service Optimization features such as user-friendly coverage of generic events and generic status flows, as well as other functional and stability improvements and bug fixes.

Service Optimization feature coverage

Generic events are now fully interpreted by Xoom. They are included as part of the DEFAULT query in the generic installation of Xoom for Service Optimization 8.1.7 and later. They are also accessible in Settings Migration Tool, when their editor is located in the Service Optimization Remote Administration Tool.
Generic status flows are now fully interpreted, and are accessible in Settings Migration Tool, when their editor is located in the Service Optimization Remote Administration Tool.
Added in-depth coverage for schedule idle resource workflows and stages.
Added built-in coverage for priority index.
XSL transformations of outgoing messages are now interpolated as XML in XoomXML. They can now be found, explored and extracted using standard XML tools, including Xoom Explorer.
Improvements in the coverage of bundler parameters where the representation of configuration changed in different versions.
Minor interpretative improvements in ClickRoster corrective action types.

Improvements and important functional changes

Xoom Explorer, Xoom Processor and Xoom Toolkit now all support EXSLT functions in XPath and XSL. This radically improves the expressiveness with features such as regular expressions, set operations and more powerful string functions.
Interactive XPath in Xoom Explorer now also supports results of function calls (including EXSLT, as mentioned above), not just node sets, making it very useful not just for XoomXML files, but also as a general purpose XML exploration and XSL development tool.
Revision and Stamp are no longer routinely removed from Service Optimization Objects that have them. This has been flagged as particularly useful in configuration versioning, where storing information on when changes happened, and who made them, is desirable. Both Revision and Stamp are ignored when configuration items are compared for deployment.
Added a new report, ActiveScheduleAgentsXmlSummary.xsl. The report produces an XML file that contains in-depth information about configuration of active schedule Agents. This information is convenient for use in further transformations, in particular for automated analysis and reconfiguration of optimisation.

New parameters

Introduced new parameters that allow configuration files that are Xoom-version sensitive (for example, for controlled backwards compatibility). These new parameters are:

Table 1. Xoom parameters: `ProductInfo`
Parameter name	Description	Xoom release
`ProductInfo.Product`	Xoom.	3.4
`ProductInfo.Version`	Three number Xoom version (major. minor. build number), example: 3.4.3246.	3.4
`ProductInfo.CosmeticVersion`	A user-friendly version, the same as that used on release announcements.	3.4
`ProductInfo.Configuration`	Specifies whether the build has been compiled using Debug or Release configuration.	3.4
`ProductInfo.BuildType`	Release, HotFix, Release Candidate, Beta, Alpha, Development.	3.4

Bug fixes

XSPXoomGetObjects is now much more robust, and performs correctly regardless of the combination of properties or the ordering of the Key element.
Internal SXP calls in Service Optimization version 7.5 are now implemented using in-process COM calls for better speed and avoidance of authentication problems.
The handling of SXP errors is now more robust, covering a larger range of scenarios.
Settings Migration Tool no longer displays a .NET exception when connection to the Xoom server fails. A single message box informing the user of the problem is displayed instead, and the same message is also logged.
References will no longer result in data corruption when misconfigured. Instead, the problem will be identified and reported in the Event log, and the target node will be marked as a general bad reference.