What's new in data integration 8.7
New features in Pega Platform improve how you connect your application to distributed resources for real-time access to your data. Easily connect your application to distributed resources for real-time access to your data through the data management and integration capability enhancements. In addition to authentication with basic credentials, SMTP email integrations for Google Mail now support OAuth 2.0 authentication. This enhancement increases your email integration security and integrity with Google Mail server authentication by using an OAuth 2.0 JWT bearer grant type. For more information, see OAuth 2.0 authentication for email providers. Save time by self-managing and configuring certificates that your Pega application uses to connect to an email server. With
this enhancement, email accounts now support and store custom certificates for
STARTLLS and IMAP protocols, which eliminates the need to update any other
configurations. For more information, see the article that matches your business scenario in the Creating an email integration chapter. For improved performance and greater accuracy of the OpenAPI Specification for Pega Platform, you can now use a JSON data transform in service REST rules to generate the OpenAPI Specification. Instead of displaying all relevant records, the OpenAPI tab displays only the properties that are defined in the JSON data transform, so that you can see the most relevant properties. For more information, see Best practices for generating OpenAPI Specification documentation. For enhanced search capabilities, you can now configure searchable data pages. With searchable data pages, you can search for data objects that are stored in a remote system. For example, a contact center agent can search for a customer by entering their address in a search field. The search results are populated with the customer who matches the address. For more information, see Specifying a searchable data page. In Cosmos React applications, you can define fields as primary
directly from your data model, which saves you time by reducing UI configuration.
The system automatically generates a Primary fields view that
contains the primary fields in your case type or data object. For example, during
data modeling, you define basic personal information fields as primary fields, such
as name or address, and automatically include them in your cases without the need to
modify or create views manually. For more information, see Configuring primary fields. To help with correct file listener configuration, when you use a local path that is Goofys-enabled as the source location, Pega Platform replaces the source location field in the file listener to match the corresponding file specification. As a result, Pega Platform uses the out-of-the-box repository APIs to communicate with the source location at run time. Additionally, the following guardrails and alerts are now available: To provide improved performance for the DX API version 1 For more information, see Configuring production-level run-time settings. In Cosmos React applications, to limit interruptions to everyday
work, locked cases automatically obtain the lock from the previous session for the
same user. As a result, you can safely continue working on a case even if your
session unexpectedly ends, for example, when your browser closes accidentally. By
default, this enhancement applies to DX API version 2 through the
pyObtainLockIfSameUser when rule. System architects can
override the when rule to apply this functionality to other channels. Starting with Pega Platform version 8.7, the following rule types are deprecated: For Pega Cloud systems, use the D_pxNewFile landing page with the For more information, see Repository APIs. When an admin user saves a delegated data type in Pega Platform, the collaboration icon displays a pop-up window to refresh the data type in the portal. When the user who works in the portal refreshes the view as a result of the prompt, the data type view changes to the view that is available to the admin user. To prevent unauthorized access to configurations that should only be accessible by admin users, the collaboration icon is now unavailable in delegated data type views.Secure OAuth 2.0 protocol available for Google Mail integrations
Self-management of custom certificates for email integrations
Faster and more accurate OpenAPI Specification with JSON data transforms
Searchable data pages
Primary fields for enhanced data modeling
Minor enhancements in the file listener configuration
Improved performance for DX API calls
GET /cases/{ID}
endpoint, Pega Platform no longer returns the
SummaryData metadata in the response by default. If your
application requires that data, set the pyExcludeSummaryData
application setting to false.Improved case locking with DX API
Deprecated rule types
Deprecated rule Alternative Connect dotNet Connect SOAP rules Connect File For on-premises systems, use the D_pxNewFile landing page with the defaultstore
repository.pegacloudfilestorage
repository.Connect SAPJCo Connect SAP rules Service dotNet Service SOAP rules Service HTTP Service REST rules Service SAPJCo Service SAP rules Collaboration icon not available in delegated data types
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