SOX Feature Updates & Release Notes

Version 4.1.0

SOX Version 4.1.0 provides the following novel features and improvements compared to SOX Version 4.0.0:

Web-Based SOX

Please note that as of now, the Web-Based SOX applications are not part of the regular subscription up to version 4.0.0. and need to be requested separately.

With the SOX version 4.1.0, the TARA and HARA modules as well as the newly implemened Report Designer are now available on the new, web-based C-SOX client.

→ FOR C-SOX IN THE MOMENT ONLY ONE USER PER TIME!

WE’LL UPDATE THIS WITH THE MAINTENANCE RELEASE 4.1.1 PLANNED FOR JULY 2024

HARA (Hazard and Risk Analysis according to ISO 26262)

  • Migration to the web-based C-SOX client

  • Hazard and Risk Analysis tool according to ISO 26262

  • Improved multi-user capabilities

  • Improved layout and navigation

  • Improved file creation and editing capabilities

  • Reporting capabilities

  • Tooltips are now available for all HARA values

TARA (Threat and Risk Analysis according to ISO 21434)

  • Migration to the web-based C-SOX client

  • Threat and Risk Analysis tool according to ISO 21434

  • Enhanced Views for TARA related elements such as damage- and threat scenarios

  • Improved multi-user capabilities

  • Improved layout and navigation

  • Improved file creation and editing capabilities

  • Reporting capabilities

  • Tooltips are now available for all TARA values

Report Designer (e.g generation of safety and security concepts)

  • Web-Based tool to create template-based safety- and security reports

  • Adaptable templates to create standardized, periodical reports

  • Create and adapt technical security reports, requirement and test case reports, security concepts, etc.

  • Visualization of SOX project files and SysML diagrams via drag-and-drop inside the report

  • Live synchronization with SysML diagrams

  • Live update capabilities

  • Placeholder features to filter and import specific data from among SOX projects

  • List related documents from throughout SOX as well as external files uploaded to the client

C-SOX missing features to be added in release 4.1.1.

  • There is currently no restriction in place preventing users to add data from unrelated projects

  • There is no measure in place preventing users from editing the same part of one document, resulting in potential data loss

  • so far there is no user management, meaning everyting is virtually done by one user which has impacts on the tracking of changes

SOX RCP Client:

Client

  • Improved stability

  • Improved performance

  • Improved multi-user capabilities

  • Live synchronization with the web-based C-SOX client

Requirements

  • An issue was resolved with the merge function during Excel export

FTA

  • An issue with adding variants has been resolved

  • An issue has been resolved where export diagrams did not work on selections

  • An issue ahs been resolved where the apply button from the dialog box for setting parameters for gates/events was not working

BOM

  • An issue has been resolved that impared the copying of parts

FMEA

  • A feature was added allowing different versions of a FMEA file to be merged

  • An issue was fixed that prevented connections to be deleted

FMEDA

  • An issue has been resolved where safety goals were not displayed properly in the report

  • An issue has been resolved that caused an error when creating a FMEDA report

  • An issue has been resolved that prevented multiple functions or malfunctions to be created in sequence

  • An issue has been resolved where Hardware effects could not be deleted

  • An issue has been resolved with copying modules

ATA

  • An issue has been resolved where the propagation was not displayed correctly

Catalogs

  • Obsolete objects have been removed from the ctalog selection

 

 

Version 4.0.0

SOX Version 4.0.0 provides the following novel features and improvements compared to SOX Version 3.3.12:

SOX general:

  • Baselining feature

  • Presence UI feature

  • Locking feature

  • Git export feature

  • Manual Save feature

  • Compare feature

  • CDO (Eclipse EMF) 4.2 update

  • Papyrus 6.1 update

Integrations:

  • IBM Doors (DNG) interface

  • Polarion interface

  • Jama interface

  • Intland codebeamer interface

  • LDAP interface

TARA

  • [CSOX-303] Patch: Documents Properties shows wrong entries

  • [CSOX-304] Patch: GoTo/ShowIn function (TARA-ATA) not working

  • [CSOX-820] Patch: Risk Value should have numerical values

  • [CSOX-824] Risk Value to be empty if Impact Category not set

  • [CSOX-826] Patch: "Decisions" and "Actions" columns inactive if risk treatment set to "retaining the risk"

  • [CSOX-827] Patch: Dialog has wrong text after changing risk profile in document properties

  • [CSOX-828] Changes to layout and labelling

  • [CSOX-1055] Change default settings for norm and profile

ATA

  • [CSOX-825] New ATA file dialog


Version 3.3.12

SOX Version 3.3.12 provides the following novel features and improvements compared to SOX Version 3.3.10:

SOX general:

  • [CSOX-1007] Update log4j to V2.17.2