This topic lists major enhancements made to the Teradata Tools and Utilities suite of products. The enhancements include support for Vantage features and Teradata Tools and Utilities-specific improvements.
Not all new Vantage enhancements require modifications to TTU products. In the Product Information section, the Enhancements section for each product lists the enhancements for that product. If a new database feature is not listed, then it means that the TTU product implicitly supports the feature.
- New Teradata Vantage features
- Native Object Store (NOS)
- Single Sign-on (SSO) via Teradata AppCenter – JDBC, ODBC, .NET Data Provider
- Basic Teradata Query (BTEQ)
- Command-line flag options -do, -df and -dr are now available for restricting the enabled BTEQ command set for blackboxed invocations.
- Windows BTEQ (and BTEQWIN) are now only delivered as 64-bit executables.
- ODBC Driver for Teradata
- FastExport feature support
- Recoverable Network Protocol (RNP) and Redrive
- Deprecation (security-releated) – User password no longer saved to DSN
- R, Python drivers
- FastLoad feature support
- COP discovery
- .NET Data Provider
- Entity framework core provider release supports Entity Framework Core 2.2 standards
- Access Modules
- Teradata Access Module for S3 support for S3-compatible storage
- (New) Teradata Access Module for Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
- TPT
- Enhanced LOB data import and export capabilities
- TTU Software Packaging and Install Updates
- Apple macOS - Signed binaries and notarization of applications
- BTEQ, Standalone Utilities (FastLoad, FastExport, MultiLoad, TPump) and various Access Modules support 64-bit software-only packages
- TTU Database Management software products are now included in TTU base release bundle
- Compiler version updates - Newer versions of compilers are available for most operating systems.An updated compiler version list will be available after the 17.00 release.
Known Issues
There are no known issues for this release.