SR-B43331 · Issue 302897
Help file updated for consequences of "Ignore Locale" setting
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
Issues with date values were encountered in set ups where a localized Language Pack had been installed and developers used the "Operator Ignore locale preference" in Designer Studio in order to have Designer Studio in English. While the user portal was correctly translated and European format dates were accepted, an error stating "date is not a valid date value" would appear when a date time field was updated or a new ruleset was created. In order to ease the use of the setting, the help files have been updated to clarify that the "Ignore Locale" option on the Operator screen causes ALL locale settings to be ignored and the default en_US settings to be used. In addition to the display language, these settings include date, time and number formats.
INC-186395 · Issue 677205
Updating handling for for Pega-supplied operators with MFA
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
When a site is blocking prweb and using prweb/PRAuth for login with MFA enabled, admin user id logins failed and MFA showed the error screen for Pega-supplied users. This was due to MFA verification not being configured for Pega-supplied operators, and has been resolved by adding an Adminstrator condition to skip MFA for for Pega-supplied operators.
INC-175595 · Issue 652831
Java Bean import updated to handling differences in Java 7 and Java 8
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
The behavior of the java bean Introspector class is inconsistent across different versions of the JDK when detecting indexed properties built off of java.util.List objects, causing Java Bean import to generate differently in Java 7 and Java 8. This has been resolved by updating PRIndexedPropertyDescriptor to better handle this JDK difference by resolving indexed read and write methods manually using simple reflection.
SR-B1495 · Issue 273198
Workaround to resolve HP NonStopDB column label bug
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
Using HP Non Stop DB as an external DB with Type 4 driver caused Connect-SQL with Browse to generate the error "UNKNOWN_COLUMN_0: Column number 0 has an invalid name errors in clipboard" but still return the data. This was traced to a bug in the HP driver that caused the getColumnLabel() to be returned as empty, and the system has been updated to return the Column Name when Column Label is null or empty to overcome this.
INC-174716 · Issue 656441
Updated handling for validating/saving circumstanced rule on branch
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
Using 'save as' for an already circumstanced rule with a new property/template caused the Rule-.DictionaryValidation activity to register the error "StandardValidate-CircumPropAlreadyDefined". The same activity Step did not throw an error when saving into Branch. This was traced to the ruleset name not being the same for the branch ruleset due to having _BRANCH_Branch-Name appended to its name, and has been resolved by adding a condition to check for circumstanced rule in a branch.
SR-B7942 · Issue 284735
PDF barcode generation from eForm given configurable parameter checkbox
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
When generating a PDF file based on an eForm that contains barcodes displayed via base64 encoded images, making the file read-only by using ConcatenateEForm's PerformFieldFlattening option prevented the barcodes from displaying. This was due to an "append" flag being passed to the 3rd party iText Library API "PdfStamper", and has been resolved with the addition of a flag (EnableNewVersion) in the "GenerateEForm" activity. The parameter will be by default true and may be unchecked for false, and is accompanied by a tool tip on hover of the checkbox as well as iText help.
SR-B7942 · Issue 285735
PDF barcode generation from eForm given configurable parameter checkbox
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
When generating a PDF file based on an eForm that contains barcodes displayed via base64 encoded images, making the file read-only by using ConcatenateEForm's PerformFieldFlattening option prevented the barcodes from displaying. This was due to an "append" flag being passed to the 3rd party iText Library API "PdfStamper", and has been resolved with the addition of a flag (EnableNewVersion) in the "GenerateEForm" activity. The parameter will be by default true and may be unchecked for false, and is accompanied by a tool tip on hover of the checkbox as well as iText help.
INC-183728 · Issue 665133
Oracle handling updated for primary key in upgrade DDL
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
Previously, when a primary key of a table was created Oracle would automatically create a unique index with the same name as the primary key. However, with the introduction of Oracle 19, an optimization was added which will not do that if there is another unique index on the table which contains the column(s) of the primary key. This difference can cause updates to fail with the error "cannot drop index used for enforcement of unique/primary key". This has been resolved by updating the handling for primary key constraint and the corresponding index name.
SR-B12474 · Issue 282553
BIX extraction config documentation updated
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
When using command-line BIX 7.1 to extract records and write them to a secondary database, it appeared that some of the records got skipped. This was actually expected behavior: as the records got updated while the extract was running, those particular updated records got skipped as they did not fall into the time range that user was passing. To eliminate this confusion, the log message has been clarified. In addition, the information in the Guide indicated that if bix/useHistoryClasses was set to true, the generated query should always use the history table and not the actual work object table. However, it was not made clear that the BIX code does not use this option for explicit command line arguments. Therefore, the following text has been added to the BIX documentation under "Configuring the extraction environment" -> "Configuring optional prconfig.xml settings": Including class instances added during a batch run To ensure that class instances added to the Pega Platform database after a batch run begins execution are included in the extract, add the following property:
SR-B32118 · Issue 289472
PostgreSQL Date support added
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
An "UnsupportedType: date" error message appeared when trying to create a Customer Data Class using the Database Table Class Mapping interface. This was caused by the activity 'pzLPRefreshColumnMappingsList'(class CL Pega-Landing-DataModel-DBClassMappings) not supporting DB specific column types. To fix this, isColumnTypeSupported has been replaced with a two parameter version (int aType, String aDBName) which has an additional check for "Platform specific supported types" in the activity 'pzLPRefreshColumnMappingsList'(class CL Pega-Landing-DataModel-DBClassMappings). DATE type support has also been added in PageDatabaseMapperImpl.java.