New in RED 10.5: Streamlined Install, Smarter Upgrades & Enterprise Scale

For many teams, the hardest part of progress isn’t always about what they’re building – instead, it’s staying current, without slowing down. WhereScape RED 10.5 has been developed with that thought squarely in mind. This new release reduces the steps between “we should upgrade” and “we’ve successfully upgraded”, all while smoothing out the installation process and extending everyday operations.

If you’ve had to block out a whole weekend for a scheduler upgrade or ‘double checked’ a DSN for the eighth time, just to make sure, then this one is for you!

Install in Fewer Steps

Fresh environments should be fast. In WhereScape RED 10.5, the installation wizards can create your RED or Scheduler metadata databases and DSNs during setup. Fewer manual actions mean you can spend less time hunting out prerequisites and spend more time actually building.

This means faster-than-ever proof of concepts and internal sandboxes alike – spin them up with confidence and get productive.

Smarter, Streamlined Upgrades

We know that for some, upgrading used to have to include a checklist of careful manual steps – especially around the Scheduler. That all changes with WhereScape RED 10.5: the new Scheduler upgrade workflow automates many of those tasks, guiding you through a cleaner and much more predictable process.

If you’re coming from an older version that predates Advanced Connection, RED 10.5 now auto-creates authentication profiles, removing yet another source of friction. The net benefit to you: safer and faster upgrades that will allow you to maintain your momentum. 

Easier Ongoing Care

Once you’re up and running, we know that ‘day two’ operations can make or break the experience. That’s why RED 10.5 introduces a Scheduler Profile Maintenance Wizards, with an enhanced UI – this means that keeping authentication profiles tidy is a straightforward experience.

Plus, you can abort stuck jobs directly from the RED UI and on-hold jobs are no longer retained when you process objects interactively via the scheduler – these many improvements soon add-up.

We’ve also added ODBC connection resilience in the UI: idle connections are tested before use and recovered if broken. You can fine tune the idle check interval and response timeout in your user preferences, to best match your environment. The end result is fewer surprises and faster root-cause isolation, as soon as something upstream blips.

Big Team Friendly

As deployments grow, limits start to bite. That’s why in WhereScape RED 10.5, you can configure the maximum number of projects and groups in a repository, enabling 1000+ projects and groups in a single RED environment.

In addition, we’re raised the FROM/WHERE character limit for views to 65,344 – this helps complex transformations breathe, without contortions. Plus, if you’re targeting Teradata, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with snappier load times on the object properties storage tab.

Smoother Migrations & Automation Hooks

Moving from long-running scripts or older versions? The Azkaban job plugin in RED now accepts the legacy RED 9 script output protocol for standalone scripts executed via a scheduler job. This eases the transition to RED 10 by reducing refactoring and re-testing.

We’ve also exposed the Connection field Database Link Name to scripts via the environment variable WSL_LOAD_DBLINK, so your SQL can assemble the right source statements at runtime. 

And for operators launching the UI from automation med.exe –auto-connect lets you skip the interactive login, when you pass all required metadata connection parameters.

Other Fixes That Maintain the Momentum

Two other notable fixes in RED 10.5 are: a metadata insert failure when defining Reusable Transformations has now been resolved and deployment of default 3D entity types (Dim View and Retro) to RED now maps correctly. They’re probably the sort of issues you don’t want to think about – and the good news is that now, you don’t have to!

Why RED 10.5 Matters

We consider RED 10.5 as a pragmatic release: it might not change how you model data but it will enable you to get to that part faster-than-ever. 

Faster installs reduce the cost of experimentation, while predicable upgrades keep teams current without scheduling downtime. Operational guardrails limit distractions. And higher ceilings let large organizations scale faster, with confidence. 

If you’ve been waiting for a streamlined update process, it’s here. Find out more details on our dedicated release page. Ready to see it in action? Book a demo now to experience RED 10.5 streamlined install and upgrade flow first-hand.