INC-183706 · Issue 685830
Added null check for DynamicAppenders
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.1
Null pointer exceptions were seen for Pulse. This has been resolved by adding a null check in the DSS save/update process.
INC-185117 · Issue 680899
Check added to disable offset support for older versions of Oracle
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.1
An ORA-00933 error was generated after upgrading from Pega 7.1 to Pega 8.5. This was traced to a conflict between Oracle 11g and the Pega 8.5 platform related to an OFFSET statement being added to a query for a version of Oracle that doesn't support it. The preferred solution is to upgrade Oracle to address this, but in order to support backwards compatibility a check has been added which will disable offset support in Oracle if productversion <=11.
INC-202677 · Issue 698989
Handling added for missing expose.accessGroup property
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.1
After exposing an existing page group and page list properties along with single value properties using a declare index, running the Column Populator tool prpcServiceUtils to populate the historical data resulted in the single value properties being updated in the exposed column properly, but the page group and page list properties were not updated in the declare index table. On new case creation the declare index tables were updated. This was traced to the default expose.accessGroup not being set for the user, and has been resolved by adding a check and handling that will add the missing property in prpcserviceutils.properties defining the access group for the Rule-Declare-Index of the classes being exposed if it is not present.
INC-202004 · Issue 692353
Hotfix documentation updated to point to Hotfix Manager page
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
The readme file attached to hotfix downloads contained an outdated reference to use "PRPC Hotfix Installer on the Update Manager landing page." This has been updated to point to the Hotfix Manager landing page.
INC-205453 · Issue 706569
Pega Keystore supported for hotfix signature verification
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
In order to support custom trust managers which require an alternate method for supplying the root certificate via a platform trust store, an enhancement has been added to allow Pega Keystore to be used as a hotfix verification source. Detailed information on this can be found in https://docs.pega.com/keeping-current-pega/87/verifying-hotfix-authenticity-using-pega-keystore
INC-208516 · Issue 705098
Patchdate values made unique
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
The hotfix manager was incorrectly indicating that a previous hotfix was not installed or was partially installed and should be reinstated. This scenario was created during security updates where the missing/incomplete hotfix had been deliberately deleted from the database, and has been resolved by adding an update which will force patchdate to be unique when adding duplicate code resources during tests.
INC-209435 · Issue 707374
Column population error downgraded to warning
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
A Column Population job run after deployment for some classes was logging the error "Class does not exist", but no property was identified and no impact to the system was seen. This error has been downgraded to a warning.
INC-210513 · Issue 710344
Added handling for clustered index on the pr4_rule table during migration
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
When attempting to migrate the rules schema to RULES85 and temp data schema DATA85, the upgrade was becoming stuck in a loop while working to generate declarative indexes for Rule-HTML-Paragraph. Investigation showed the infinite looping happened only for classes mapped to the pr4_rule and with instance count of more than (num of threads * batch size). This was due to the presence of a clustered index on the pr4_rule table causing the resultset to return an infinite number of records in SQLServer, and has been resolved with an update to leverage the total record count to iterate the resultset instead of depending on the resultset.next().
INC-211299 · Issue 706316
Handling updated for rule export errors
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
After exporting the rules from E2E, the import to the production mirror failed. Investigation showed that the process encountered a time out from an Adaptive Decision Manager table when exporting the product rule, resulting in the product file not containing the mandatory jar files. This has been resolved by updating the handling of errors during export, and suppressing auto-chaining when generating app JSON.
INC-215877 · Issue 715234
Handling added for Oracle "NUMERIC" type
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
When a product rule was created in an environment using Oracle, importing the product into the cloud environment with database table schema changes resulted in errors. This was traced to a change in Oracle's JDBC driver which was reporting Number as a JDBC "NUMERIC" type instead of the previous "DECIMAL". Pega uses the NUMBER data type and expected a type=DECIMAL for an Oracle number, causing the errors. This has been resolved by adding a check for flex numbers if column is NUMERIC.