SR-B70652 · Issue 325924
Timeout error resolved for write future
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3.1
With retries enabled, the write future was timing out before retries could be completed. This has been fixed by removing the timeout on the write future since timeouts will be caught using Datastax driver exceptions.
SR-B74934 · Issue 327017
Facebook connector refined to handle page deletion while the AADrivetech is active
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3.1
A Facebook connector trying to connect to a invalid page was causing out of memory errors. In this scenario, a Facebook Page that was no longer required was deleted but the AADrivetech Facebook connector was left running. This connector, in its attempts to contact the Facebook page and retrieve the getFrom parameter which was now null, started to consume resources on the node leading to the outage. To solve this, the code has been modified to not expect the user name to always come from Facebook but instead put in an anonymous name if the page disappears.
SR-B76526 · Issue 326533
Backwards compatibility enhancement for @when() validation
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3.1
After upgrade, a Strategy rule which referred a 'when' with the syntax @when(isOnlineApplication) was failing with design time validation saying that when rule was not found in the SR and instead it had to find it in the Customer/Applies to class. For the @when() issue, the root cause was that the validation context of @when() was switched from Applies-To class to the Step Page class due to a change in the core engine. The behavior of expression parsing for when rule calls was changed in release 7.2. It used to take the Apply-to class to validate the existence of the rule, but not it is taking the Step Page class. And Strategy rule doesn't push/pop stackframe due to performance reasons, thus StepPage on stack for Strategy is always the same as Primary page. For greater compatibility, the system will set the PageContextClass to the Apply To class so the expression parser can validate the setup which is expected at run-time.
SR-B69409 · Issue 317548
CLOB type handling enhanced in Marketing
Resolved in Pega Version 7.3.1
Pega Marketing uses the out-of-the-box DSM activity pxRunDDFWithProgressPage for triggering Data flow runtime. After upgrade in DB2 environments, the DF execution completed but the activity returned a failure. It was found that if a CLOB column is present in the filter of a NativeSQL object invoked from an activity, the status had an error message even though functionality was fine. To ensure consistent behavior, CLOB has been added to supported data types so the severity of the exception can be changed so as to not show error message in activity's status.
SR-B56256 · Issue 335795
VBD cache handling changed to preserve data integrity
Resolved in Pega Version 7.4
When VBD was configured to use on-heap memory, no data was displayed in VBD planner and logs showed queries failing with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException. The cause of the error was a corruption of VBD cache data in a partition: VBD compresses its partitions after getting no inserts for 15 minutes. When an insert is received by a compressed partition, the partition is first decompressed before writing. During decompression, the buffer position is set to the end of the uncompressed buffer. However, the buffer may include padded nulls added during buffer expansion. The system writes the new VBD records after the padded nulls, but the nulls would then throw off the read logic during query execution. To fix this, during decompression the buffer position will now be set to the end of the data, not the end of the buffer.
SR-B56256 · Issue 337432
VBD cache handling changed to preserve data integrity
Resolved in Pega Version 7.4
When VBD was configured to use on-heap memory, no data was displayed in VBD planner and logs showed queries failing with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException. The cause of the error was a corruption of VBD cache data in a partition: VBD compresses its partitions after getting no inserts for 15 minutes. When an insert is received by a compressed partition, the partition is first decompressed before writing. During decompression, the buffer position is set to the end of the uncompressed buffer. However, the buffer may include padded nulls added during buffer expansion. The system writes the new VBD records after the padded nulls, but the nulls would then throw off the read logic during query execution. To fix this, during decompression the buffer position will now be set to the end of the data, not the end of the buffer.
SR-B67003 · Issue 329137
Enhancement added to validate mandatory fields in custom proposition definition forms
Resolved in Pega Version 7.4
Enhancements have been added in order to support extended customization of a proposition definition form. Previously, the custom form containing the custom fields was rendered in the context of a requestor-level, editable data page for creating a new proposition. The custom form section itself did not belong to the same class as the data page but was only rendered in the context of the data page at run-time. Therefore, validations defined on the custom form were not triggered due to the mismatch in the context of execution. The system has now been updated with an extension activity which will have the required-field validation pre-loaded. The same activity can then be extended to include additional validations whenever needed. The approach has some limitations as below. Process: On the custom form for the proposition group, the appropriate fields will need to be marked as required-always from the 'Required' dropdown field configuration form. After this, with the local fix branch included, new propositions should be validated for missing required fields. Limitations: The validation will work only on the manual creation of a new proposition. Conversely, the validation will NOT work if the propositions were uploaded using the Import/Export feature on the Decision Data form. The validation error messages for the custom fields will appear on the top of the page unlike that for the proposition name property. However, the message will list all properties that are marked as required but haven't been filled-in on the form.
SR-B72990 · Issue 326318
DataFlowGenerator class files preserved longer
Resolved in Pega Version 7.4
When creating a campaign, running the generated data flow manually resulted in an illegal argument exception indicating a null property name. This was traced to the use of an overwrite data flow API: class files were generated and removed immediately after the DataFlow object is constructed. In some cases, the java classloader may delay loading of the classes, causing the NoClassDefFoundException as files have been already removed. To resolve this, the DataFlowGenerator will now wait one day to remove the classes.
SR-B75057 · Issue 328508
CSV import of list segment fixed
Resolved in Pega Version 7.4
After upgrade, CSV import of a list segment in Pega Marketing was not working if the header name was "WorkEmail" in LMMS. This was due to a redundant call made to pxgetFilteredUniqueKeysListFromDB, and the code has been updated to correct this.
SR-B77601 · Issue 328719
Enhanced localization in Survey
Resolved in Pega Version 7.4
Due to enhancements in the Survey modules, some rule forms were exposed in the end user portal which called out-of-the-box Designer Studio activities. Designer Studio does not by default have localization, resulting in some save activities and error messages such as "Cannot save a record that is checked out by a different user" not being localized in Survey. To better handle such situations, the Rule-.Save activity has been changed to use a message rule instead of hard-coded text so localization will be applied.