SR-B44278 · Issue 302830
MT guide updated for rules blocking/restriction
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
The MultiTenant guide has been updated to clarify what causes rules to be blocked or restricted and the possible consequences of unrestricting rules.
SR-B48780 · Issue 305215
Oracle/Unix documentation updated with JDBC instructions for urandom instead of random
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
The Install/Upgrade guides have been updated to reflect that recent changes to Oracle have created the requirement of forcing the JDBC driver to use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random to improve security as well as connection open and close performance. The guide now recommends customers running Oracle on Unix do one of the following: 1. Update $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security to use securerandom.source=file:/dev/./urandom 2. Set system property -Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom
SR-B8847 · Issue 278000
FCM/FCMR documentation updated
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
The documentation on the PDN for installing and configuring FCM 7.12 has been updated for FCM and FCMR.
SR-B8898 · Issue 279449
Reference to outdated property removed
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3
When building a system with WebSphere 8.5.5, DB2 10.5fp7 and Java 8, creating the environment and testing the connection on its datasource produced the warning: "DSRA8200W: DataSource Configuration: DSRA8020E: Warning: The property 'progressiveLocators' does not exist.". This was traced to a code fragment left after that property became unsupported which has now been removed.
INC-167311 · Issue 646477
Updated upgrade handling for migrating work objects
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.6
After upgrading from Pega 6.2 to 8.3, the work migrated work objects were missing SLAs due to missed entries in the assignment tables (PC_ASSIGN_WORKLIST/ PC_ASSIGN_WORKBASKET) . The SLA was firing, but the processing failed due to the fact the runtime could not resolve a 'AddHistoryPage' library function. In this case, multiple upgrades of the application dating back to Pega 4 resulted in the runtime context containing older ruleset versions in higher ruleset versions, hiding the underlying Pega 8 version of the rule. For releases prior to Pega 7.3, Rule-Application was stored in pr4_rule and will be migrated to pr4_rule_application during upgrades. However, since Context Upgrade is run before Optimize Newly Exposed Columns, the pyDependsOnName won't always be populated. To resolve this, the system will filter based on the value in the blob rather than the exposed column so there will be a value regardless of the upgrade-from version.
INC-172675 · Issue 649451
Configuration added for extending queue processor timeout
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.6
Alerts for queue processor (QP) items which took more than 15 minutes to run could result in the system marking the node as 'unhealthy'. In environments with Pega Health Check enabled, this would shut down the node gracefully. It was not possible to change this default as it was hardcoded. In order to support systems that may have custom processes that run beyond 15 minutes, a a new setting has been exposed that allows configuration of the interval after which a node with long-running queue processor is marked as unhealthy and is restarted. By default this remains 900000 milliseconds / 900 seconds / 15 minutes, but it may be adjusted up to 24 hours to avoid premature node shutdown. The stale thread detection mechanism will take that setting into account and use the provided value or default to 15 minutes if the value was not provided. In addition, the threshold's units in the UI have been changed from ms to seconds.
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.