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Reference to outdated property removed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-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