Earlier this year I got answer from Microfocus concerning Validator licensing, that it would be included in cloud only version of IDM...

I would like to see that part of On-prem IDM product also - since quality and customer satisfaction is for sure also strong part in on-prem customer base also..

Since IDM deployment can be done container based in on-prem - it shouldn't be big effort to add validator easily to on-prem also. It is only matter of licensing issue.Earlier licensing of Validator has been too expensive and inflexible.

I was also hoping that the licensing entitlement would cover on-prem as well.   Please make this available to on-prem customers.

That is a subtle distinction I had not heard. Interesting.  We shall see, since the cloud version of IDM is not really ready/available yet and here is Validator... 

Validator is not really structured to be shared, more of a one user at a time sort of thing (per test suite) so interesting point.

I am and others have been told by the PM that they are working on making the license files available on the SLD portal.  I keep checking to see...

Great!

Hi,

This is great news and i have been looking forward to this. 

Already it seems to have improved a lot, but at the same time there are some differences, which i am not sure are intentional. They might be - but i would disagree with those choices, e.g. it seems that it is not possible to break/cancel a running test. 

I also ran into a couple of other issues:

• Having to sometimes refresh the application to populate the action dropdown for connectors (even those with previous selections).
• Manual test does not seem to have any way to proceed. There used to be a button.

The REST api for test execution could be quite useful. Has anyone come across documentation for using this?

First up, Manual task... Release notes: https://www.netiq.com/documentation/identity-validator-2.0/identity-validator-2.0-releasenotes/data/identity-validator-2.0-releasenotes.html

Say:

Wait, Pause, and Manual Test Actions#

https://<ip address>:<port>/api/validator/v1/swagger#
 
Which sadly, is probably all the API docs we are going to get (as usual).  Alas. 

I did complain about not being able to stop a test as well.

How do you like the Set Variables?  I could not initially figure out what they intended. 

Alright thanks. That explains some things. 

Yea, Set Variables seems odd, but I don't quite see what you mean from your orginal post. I don't even get to the point where I am able to select variables. I press the magnifying glass and get this error in the log:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: com.microfocus.validator.connectors.GenericActions.getSchemaAttributes(java.lang.String)

I imported some older testsuites, where set variables was already populated, and they seemed to have been wiped upon import. I will have to test this some more.

I saw something similar on import, but was not sure if it was me or not.  I had issues with dashes in variable names. But then I didn't so dunno.

I expect that the file format is not perfect in all files for some reason.  And this is missing some edge case/subtlty.

Swagger docs... And as usual not to the detail I would like. Seems like Swagger is a way out of writing docs.  It will self document... But the examples are unclear, some fields are required but ill defined and so on.