INC-177737 · Issue 663140
Authentication requirement updated for CallConnector
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
After update, invoking a REST API call during SSO login which eventually called pxCallConnector (Final Activity) in @baseclass Pega-RulesEngine failed at the CallConnector step. This was caused by a change in recent Pega versions which enabled authentication for this activity, and has been resolved by marking the activity as internal and disabling the authentication requirement.
INC-164308 · Issue 634409
UseNoCacheHeaders default expiration set to "0"
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
When the prconfig/HTTP/UseNoCacheHeaders/default was set true it used the value "Expires: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT". This has been updated to the more commonly used setting "0".
INC-145802 · Issue 636323
Oracle temporary space explicitly freed after writing LOBs
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
Oracle temporary space used to write the LOB was not freed up after writing records to Log-Service-File when using OJDBC8 or OJDBC10 versions and the table involved had inline BLOB storage such as small blob tables like Log-service-file (2-4kB blobs). This did not occur when using OJDBC7, but investigation with Oracle could not determine why the older version did not have this issue. This issue has been resolved by explicitly freeing the LOB space with a call to free() / freeTemporary() , a utility for LOB objects that was introduced in JDBC 4.
INC-156758 · Issue 629938
ExpandStream called before Page-Merge-Into to ensure correct merge
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
The Page-Merge-Into method was not merging the source page into the target page when the use case was run without tracer, but merged properly when run with tracer. This was traced to an intermittent issue with expanding properties, and has been resolved by calling expandStream on the source property if it is unknown prior to checking if the source and target properties are merge compatible.
INC-169116 · Issue 654257
Correct time zone chosen for fr_Fr appointment function
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
When using the "fr_Fr" location and and "Europe/Paris" time zone for appointments, a null pointer exception was seen related to the function getStartOrEndDateTime. Investigation showed that the incorrect time zone was being picked from the fr_FR.xml file when parsing the date. To resolve this, 4 letter time zone codes have been moved above the 3 letter time zone codes.
INC-172546 · Issue 652879
Resolved classcast exception with assembled HTML controls
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
A classcast exception was being generated on login. Investigation showed the Static Assembler was unexpectedly using a different Assembler to assemble the Html control rule. Standard behavior is that StreamBuilderAssembler assembles controls of type StreamBuilder and ControlAssemblerForVTable assembles controls of type ControlBuilder. In this case, static assembly for HTML controls using VTable was performed using StreamBuilderAssembler, causing a classcast exception when using VTable because the instance of the generated.html class was incorrectly inheriting from StreamBuilder (the parent class of ControlBuilder) instead of ControlBuilder which is the specified interface in the generated.html Java code. This has been resolved by updating the system to skip rules of type 'Rule-HTML-Property'(control) during Static Assembly.
INC-158018 · Issue 633375
Archiving updated to include pxobjclass in CTE column list
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
After enabling the case archival feature on a casetype, cases were getting stuck in the Archive-Ready state while being archived, and a 'column not found' error was seen. Investigation showed that the generated SQL statement used to retrieve the resolved case instances used a common table expression (CTE) whose columns were inskey, insclass, and parentinskey, and the query that referenced the CTE was attempting to compare the column pxobjclass when pxobjclass did not exist in the CTE's column list. To resolve this, the CTE column list has been updated to pzinskey, pxobjclass, and parentinskey to prevent the 'column not found error' from occurring, and the query that referenced the CTE was also updated to use the correct column names and aliases.
INC-162262 · Issue 654965
Query added to find time zone for MSSQL database
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
The exception "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: xp_regread() returned error 5, 'Access is denied.'" was generated when the AES agent PushDBSizeInfo was being run. This was traced to the GetDBInfo activity trying to retrieve the time zone of the MSSQL database by executing a query that used a Microsoft SQL routine to read the windows registry to get the current time zone. The error was not due to security within the SQL Server, but instead was caused by Microsoft Windows security related to the permissions on the registry keys for the users under which specific SQL Server processes were running. To resolve this, an update has been made to call a different query which will get the time zone for the SQL Server.
INC-171753 · Issue 649439
Checks for Apache Tomcat 6 with MSSQL removed
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
After implementing a specific local Tomcat configuration that removed the Tomcat version number from displaying on Tomcat standard error screens, the error "Tomcat 6 not supported or unable to detect version for custom Tomcat: Apache Tomcat. Contact Pega Customer Support!" appeared and Tomcat failed to start. Because Tomcat 6 was not supported for use with Microsoft SQL Server Systems, Pega used the ServletContext.getServerInfo() method to determine the Tomcat version; if the system used Tomcat 6 or an undetermined version in combination with MSSQL then the system would purposefully not start. As Tomcat 6 is no longer supported in Pega 8.5.2 and above, this check is unnecessary in those versions and the Tomcat version 6 checks in ClassMapImpl have been removed to allow serverAllowsMerge to return as true.
INC-177470 · Issue 657143
Optimization prconfig check added for TableInformationMap
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.1
A prconfig setting check has been added to the TableInformationMap use of OPTIMIZE_SMA_QUERY during its foreign key lookup.