Noticeable differences between work objects created in the Decision Manager portal when compared to Designer Studio
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.7
In the Decision Manager portal, you create work objects by running flows in the enterprise application that serves as the base application for the application overlay. If the enterprise application does not include the UI-Kit-7 in its application rulesets, work objects can display differently in the Decision Manager portal when compared to Designer Studio because an application overlay is always configured to include the UI-Kit-7 ruleset.
Recommendation:
- Add the UI-Kit-7 ruleset dependency to the enterprise application.
- Redesign the user interface to comply with the UI-Kit-7 ruleset.
Rollback functionality is limited to latest revision
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.7
The rollback functionality in DSM Revision Manager allows customers to roll back the import of the latest revision to their DSM application. Only one rollback is allowed; after a rollback, the rollback option is disabled until the next revision is imported. If importing two (or more) revisions at once then attempting a rollback, the system only rolls back one revision.
Example: a user has a base DSM application. They import Revision 1, and then import Revision 2. Next, they try to roll back both revisions. The system reverts to the Revision 1 version of the application, and the customer cannot revert all the way back to the base application.
System Management Application displaying listeners that do not require any action
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.7
After installing or upgrading to Pega 7.1.7, there is an additional available listener (Data-Decision-DNode-Service:Default) that does not require any action. This listener can be safely ignored and you should not use the System Management Application to manage any of its operations or state.
- The Data-Decision-DNode-Service:Default listener is always running on every PRPC node.
- The state of this listener is internally managed by PRPC. Starting or stopping it through SMA does not have any effect on its state.
Convert data instances into decision parameter rules
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
The Convert groups wizard is available in the Hierarchy landing page when the list of your propositions include decision data records.
Click Convert groups at the top of the landing page to use the wizard and to convert data instances into decision parameter rules. This conversion is necessary to make the existing proposition data instances available for revision management.
Update to the Data Flows rule
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
It is now possible to collect statistics for each active data flow. These include the number of processed records, records that caused errors and last processed records per shape, as well as historical throughput measured for the entire data flow.
There are two new patterns in the Data Flow rule:
- Event Strategy - define this pattern to use an event strategy in a data flow and to connect a data stream and static data sources to an event strategy.
- Filter - specify filter conditions and apply them to each element of the input flow
Apart from this, the Merge pattern was updated to execute the flow when there is no data on the secondary branches and the Strategy pattern allows you to specify the class where you want to store your strategy results.
New Dynamic System Setting for proposition management
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
A new Dynamic System Setting affects the process of creating new groups on the Proposition Management landing page.
When the PropositionManagement/isOnlyVersionedProposition parameter is set to true, users can only create the versioned propositions.
When the PropositionManagement/isOnlyVersionedProposition parameter is set to false, the Create Group dialog allows users to create either the versioned or unversioned propositions (the Create versioned proposition data check box and the Decision data rule section are both displayed).
Real-time event processing
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.9
Real-time event processing is a mechanism that can be used to analyze a high velocity stream of events entering the system and derive conclusions from them. It is possible to define metrics, measurements, and conditions under which subsequent trigger events are generated.
For details, see Real-time event processing.
New form of the HBase rule
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
There is a new form of the HBase rule. While you cannot create any new instances of the Pega 7.1.7 HBase rule, legacy instances in your application remain functional. You can still use the Pega 7.1.7 instances of the HBase rule, but you cannot make changes to them.
New data sets
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
There are three new types of data sets:
- HDFS Data Set, which reads and saves data from external, distributed Apache Hadoop file systems.
- HBase Data Set, which supports HBase storage.
- Stream Data Set, which processes the continuous data stream of events.
Real-time processing of data flows
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
It is possible to run, manage, and monitor data flows that use stream as their data source. You can create a new run from the Real-time processing landing page.