INC-195387 · Issue 681673
HandleResponses updated for use with optimized campaign
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
After updating from Pega 8.4, responses were not processed in the pxHandleResponses Data flow if the "pyCampaignOptimization" flag was set to true. This was traced to a missed use case for an optimized campaign, and has been resolved by modifying the condition in HandleResponses.
INC-216490 · Issue 713634
pxIdentifier dynamically set for DecisionData while using GOS
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
When using a Decision Data component in a strategy which was wrapped with Globally Optimized Strategy (GOS), no results were generated from the DataJoin shape under optimized execution. Investigation showed this was caused by a missing .pxIdentifier for the DecisionData shape during GOS execution. There was a workaround of unselecting the checkbox on the Advanced tab in the Decision Data component, but this has been resolved by updating the strategy kernel service so it will dynamically construct the pxIdentifier based on the skills assignment module (SSA).
INC-197530 · Issue 686027
Value Finder updated for use with external Cassandra nodes
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
Attempting to use the Value Finder feature resulted in the error "Running Simulation is not possible because the required services are not available. Contact your System Administrator to enable the data flow and decisioning data store services." Analysis traced this to a check which identifies whether there is more than one internal node available for CDH/ DSS node. Since there were only external nodes available in this scenario and no internal nodes, the method returned false and returned the error when the CDH / VF page was launched. To resolve this, the check has been modified to allow for external Cassandra.
INC-174933 · Issue 651829
Special characters escaped for use in "is in List" lookups
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
After creating a specific criterion on any proposition using a string property, the "Is In List" operator, and a customer list with one value containing a "$", clicking save or check in resulted in the exception error "Problem invoking function: pega_decisionengine_propositionfilterfua.pzPropositionFilterMethodBody--(PublicAPI,ClipboardPage) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal group reference at java.util.regex.Matcher.appendReplacement(Matcher.java:857) ". This has been resolved by escaping regular expression control characters in string replacement, which will allow the use of characters such as the $ sign for "is in List" lookups.
INC-176757 · Issue 657785
Interaction History properly saved when running strategy on a different data flow
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
Customized Interaction History properties that had been added to pyInteractionHistoryConfiguration and pyDefaultWorkingSet and saved into the PR_DATA_IH_FACT table were not being saved properly after upgrading from 7.3 to 8.3. This was a missed use case and has been resolved.
INC-148006 · Issue 605583
Enhancements added for very heavy use of strategy decision logic
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Recent updates were made to improve memory performance for scenarios where a single request primary page had tens of thousands of pages under an embedded pagelist property and the decision logic involved a strategy running on all the pages in that page list. To further improve performance, the array iterator has been modified and a DSS has been added that makes the threshold (50) in SSAExecutionContextIteratorFactory tunable.
INC-220893 · Issue 728488
Errors persisted for single case runs using a custom error handler
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
Single case processing (SingleAccountData) had failed records when opening the SubscriptionData dataset, but it was not possible to see the failed record details for further investigation. Investigation showed that when running a single case run with a custom error handler, errors were persisted as part of the dataflow metrics, but not written to the database. To resolve this, an update has been made to ensure errors are persisted for single case runs configured using a custom error handler.
SR-A6903 · Issue 216455
Data Flow correctly handles table encountering null numeric columns
Resolved in Pega Version 7.2
When a data set was created on top of a exposed table which contains some null value in numeric columns, a Data flow executed using that data set used the value '0' instead of the expected null property. This was traced to the Data Flow batch run execution using the DSMClipboardPages, which weren't able to differentiate if a property was present or not and led to null being mapped to 0 in a numeric property. To correct this, the NativeSQLAPI will return null values as empty values when querying a DB and will not use them populate a DSM page or propagate them in the data flow.
SR-A6903 · Issue 216454
Data Flow correctly handles table encountering null numeric columns
Resolved in Pega Version 7.2
When a data set was created on top of a exposed table which contains some null value in numeric columns, a Data flow executed using that data set used the value '0' instead of the expected null property. This was traced to the Data Flow batch run execution using the DSMClipboardPages, which weren't able to differentiate if a property was present or not and led to null being mapped to 0 in a numeric property. To correct this, the NativeSQLAPI will return null values as empty values when querying a DB and will not use them populate a DSM page or propagate them in the data flow.
INC-142084 · Issue 599877
Support added for expression in strategy scorecards
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
When invoking REST against a dataflow that had a strategy containing a scorecard that used an expression and the "Include model explanations option" was enabled in the Strategy configuration, the system failed with the error "PropertyValueInvalid .pxMaxScore Cannot cast the value (unknown) to double". This was traced to the Scorecard explanations failing during serialization when an expression was used, and has been corrected.