INC-160382 · Issue 630714
Added handling for double quotes when converting tables
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
After importing some packages from development to production, DDL conversion failed for tables with 30 characters in the table name when the import file contained a "Create VIEW" sentence. This was due to the addition of double quotes (" "). The table rename utility was not expecting to handle quoted table names, so as a result the addition of the quotation mark characters were included in the length calculation, and when renaming was performed it yielded syntactically invalid names (with leading " in the name). To resolve this, an update has been made which will strip quotes from table names being passed into TableRenameUtil.
INC-162360 · Issue 635817
Unneeded AUC error percentage calculation removed for better system performance
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
When generating snapshots of the ADM models, an inefficiency in the metric calculation for the AUC error percentage caused an excessive amount of memory to be allocated which could cause slowdown or require a system reboot. This has been resolved by removing the problematic AUC error percentage calculation as it is not used in the UI.
INC-163940 · Issue 634491
CustomerData schema added to list of databases for optimization
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
was no "Create?" column. This column appeared for the PegaDATA database but not for CustomerData. To resolve this, the Optimize Schema Landing Page has been updated to treat the CustomerData schema as a shipped Pega database.
INC-163791 · Issue 704028
Simplified default reference time calculations
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
After a job scheduler was configured to run at Start time = 21:00:00 for Time zone = Europe/London, the scheduler determined 20:00:00 as the next start time. This was due to the calculation for the next start time using the time zone offset calculation pattern for the date and time stored in System-Runtime-Context.pxCreateDateTime, which had difficulty with changes to the time zone definition implemented in the time between the given date and today (meaning the current time) such as daylight savings time. To resolve this, the default reference time from System Runtime Context will be 'now' instead of Date(0).
INC-184798 · Issue 703268
PRconfig added for JVM user/password
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
The setting Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=true has been added for use when JMX authentication is enabled by providing jmxuser/password through prconfig.
INC-184964 · Issue 705934
TextMask_Encrypted rule added for use with Oracle
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
When a property was being encrypted by propertyEncrypt access control policy and masked by propertyRead access control policy, it showed a "@@getMaskedValueOfText" error. This has been resolved with the addition of a new rule pxTextMask_Encrypted for Oracle product type which will remove extra spaces from the SOURCE string to handle ORACLE specific usecases.
INC-195580 · Issue 684493
Delay Factor updated to allow values < 1.0
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
After modifying the "Delay factor" parameter on a queue processor rule and and clicking the "Save" button, refreshing the page caused the value of the "Delay factor" parameter to change. This has been resolved by updating the delay calculation strategy to support factors < 1.0.
INC-196447 · Issue 684645
Enhancements added for external Kafka Stream Service
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
To ensure data privacy when using multi-tenant Stream Service hosted on a single Kafka cluster, access will be authorized based on ACLs when a tenant sends direct requests to Kafka. In addition, all Kafka resources (topics and consumer groups) are now able to contain a prefix naming convention which can be used for tenants. This is handled through using a <env name="services/stream/name/pattern" value="{tenant.name}-{environment}-{stream.name}"/> prconfig setting to set the stream name pattern. For example, if the tenant.name is resolved into "companyname", environment into "prod1", and the stream dataset name is pyFTSIncrementalIndexer, then the Topic name created on the external Kafka will be companyname-prod1-pyFTSIncrementalIndexer.
INC-200030 · Issue 698956
Handling added for external Kafka authorization exception
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
When using external Kafka for stream service, the dataflow was failing with the error 'QueueProcessorDataSubscriberException' when topic create permission was missing. As a workaround, the topics could be pre-created, though a "Topic already exists" warning was generated. To resolve this, the cluster-wide right that a producer needs, IdempotentWrite, has been added. For more information please refer to the link https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/authorization.html
INC-202865 · Issue 709919
Shared partition operations performance improvements
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.4
A significant performance degradation was seen in queue processor overhead related to maintaining the partition table. This has been resolved by adding an update which will improve partition operations in a shared context.