106th WM Release
Supporting the Open-Source Community in 2024
Optimized display of frozen WM fields
105th WM Release
Autonomous Disaster Recovery Test on 10th / 11th August
Update 30.07.2024: "Case-insensitive" Search for WM Text Fields
Improvements in the WMACCESS Application Menu
104th WM Release
Customer survey for the extension of the data spectrum
"Case-insensitive" Search for WM Text Fields
103rd WM Release
On February 24, 2025 the 106. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.
On February 24, 2025, the following data fields will be frozen by WM Datenservice:
The frozen fields listed in this section will continue to appear in the respective detail display in greyed-out form. Frozen WM-fields are no longer updated and will not be provided by WM Datenservice for newly issued or newly added securities in the WM database.
Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.
In 2024, we are once again continuing our commitment to the open-source community. This year, we have provided financial support to five key open-source projects that are essential for the reliable operation and efficient monitoring of WMACCESS.
For more details about our open-source initiatives, please visit our GitHub page. An overview of the supported projects can be found under Open-Source-Support-2024.
Finally, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to the entire open-source community – for their tireless innovation and invaluable contributions to technological advancement.
In the detail views of wmView and wmProfile, the display of frozen WM fields has been enhanced with the addition of a red warning symbol, as shown in the example of WM field GD970I.
The tooltip has been expanded and now directly explains the specific characteristics of frozen WM fields within WMACCESS.
Display of frozen WM fields, using GD970I as an example.
Frozen WM fields can be of particular interest, especially when analyzing older securities or corporate event data, such as income data, due to previous regulatory conditions.
On October 21, 2024 the 105. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.
On October 21, 2024, the following data fields, including the entire segment B / Coupon Renewals, will be frozen by WM Datenservice:
The frozen fields listed in this section will continue to appear in the respective detail display in greyed-out form. Frozen WM-fields are no longer updated and will not be provided by WM Datenservice for newly issued or newly added securities in the WM database.
Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.
This coming weekend (Saturday, 10th August and Sunday, 11th August 2024), a crucial test of the autonomous failover functionality will be conducted for our website www.wmaccess.com and the WMACCESS applications. This is part of our comprehensive Uptime and Disaster Recovery Strategy, which involves multiple transitions of the production site between the primary and fallback data centres each year to ensure the reliability and availability of our services.
Our new software, Disaster-Fail-Guard, which has been in operation since June 2024, autonomously monitors availability and, if necessary, automatically initiates a switch of operations to our fallback data centre in Vienna. As part of this test, a failure of our primary data centre will be simulated to ensure the system's autonomous activation.
We will carefully select the exact timing of the simulated data centre failure and schedule it during a period when no users are active and no requests are being made to WMACCESS, in order to minimise disruptions. Consequently, there may be a planned unavailability of 5 to 10 minutes.
We appreciate your understanding, and thank you for your patience during these important maintenance activities.
Update 12.08.2024:
The test of the autonomous disaster recovery functionality on August 10, 2024, was successful. The timeline was as follows:
Since the failure was only simulated, there were no interruptions in WMACCESS operations during the five-minute grace period from 16:57 to 17:01 or during the subsequent switch to the fallback data centre.
After several hours of productive operation in the fallback data centre, operations were switched back to our primary data centre on Saturday, 10 August, at 22:59:41. Again, there was no downtime during this process.
Improvements in the WMACCESS Menu
We are pleased to introduce the improved WMACCESS menu, which will soon be available in WMACCESS via Internet.
The new WMACCESS menu is more user-friendly and contains many new and useful menu items.
These improvements provide more intuitive navigation.
Below you will find an overview of the most important changes and additions.
Menu items that contain links to the WMACCESS website will open in a new browser window or tab.
The new, optimized WMACCESS menu will be available shortly.
On June 24, 2024 the 104. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.
No data fields will be frozen with this WM Release.
Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.
We are currently evaluating the expansion of our data spectrum. To enable us to optimise the potential purchase of data, we would ask you for feedback on whether the data area presented is of interest to you.
Update 14.06.2024:
The survey has been closed. We will inform you of the result.
Until now, only a few WM text fields, such as GD260 (Securities short description), were optimized in WMACCESS for case-insensitive searching.
This optimization has now been extended to nearly all WM text fields.
Thanks to this innovation, search queries can be made more flexible, as the case of search terms no longer matters.
Currently, there are two exceptions to this extension:
Update 30.07.2024:
The "case-insensitive" search has now been extended to all WM text fields, including GD609 / Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
and GD441 / Fund Investment Focus.
This improvement in usability significantly facilitates the retrieval of information and makes searching for securities, issuers, and other relevant data more efficient.
On February 26, 2024 the 103. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.
No data fields will be frozen with this WM Release.
Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.
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