SR-D53933 · Issue 525601
Modified VBD insertion logic to improve handling
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
An issue with not being able to launch an additional VDB node was traced to two processes inserting into VBD with different field signatures and triggering unnecessary object creation. This was amplified when adding a second node as the objects were serialized. To resolve this, the insertion logic has been modified to avoid creating new data container/field descriptors after a new field is included, as well as a measurement with smaller data type than previous container.
SR-D54218 · Issue 518601
Deadlock in static Initialization of IntList resolved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
JVM Deadlock was seen related to the static Initialization of a subclass field in class com.pega.decision.strategy.ssa.runtime.collections.api.IntList . Thread dumps showed threads in RUNNABLE State that were parked to wait for class initialization, and this was traced to a missed sonar alert which failed in multi-threading. To resolve this, the system handling has been updated to prevent potential deadlock.
SR-D54430 · Issue 518291
Updated VDB Statistics rendering to compensate for Google Chrome changes
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
The Statistics overlay was not rendering for VBD planner in Google Chrome. Investigation showed that the Google Chrome browser (v.77) was misfiring one of the mouse events due to changes in the browser, and the handling has been updated to resolve this issue.
SR-D54602 · Issue 517309
Prconfigs added to support Cassandra Speculative Based Execution
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
In order to achieve high availability for Cassandra, prconfigs have been added to support speculative execution. The available prconfigs will enable it, and set maximum number of executions and delay before the next execution is launched.The prconfigs are: dnode/cassandra_speculative_execution_policy dnode/cassandra_speculative_execution_policy/max_executions dnode/cassandra_speculative_execution_policy/delay
SR-D60121 · Issue 525492
All interactions visible in "Latest Responses" for ADM
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
Interactions were not visible in the "Latest Responses" section of the Model Management landing page for Adaptive models if the requests were stored on multi-node systems. This was due to the system fetching the Last Responses using a list of server nodes built using a version of deployment.getClusterState(tools) which gave only the ADM nodes list instead of all the ADM nodes both client and server. To resolve this, the system has been updated to use ServiceRegistry to get all of the data flow nodes and get the last responses from each of them.
SR-D60268 · Issue 521467
Performance and thread-handling improvements for SSA
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
The SecureRandom class was used internally by SSAExecutionContext indirectly via UUID generation. Because this exhibited performance issues on some Linux environments, UUID has been replaced with static AtomicLong. In addition, a memory leak was observed when the strategy (SSA) execution resulted in an exception, and the strategy template has been modified to gracefully shutdown the VM under all circumstances. Thread-safety measures have also been tuned to be more fine-grained to reduce the potential thread contention that was seen while borrowing the SSAInterpreter object from SSAInterpreterPool.
SR-D69028 · Issue 528974
Deadlock in static Initialization of IntList resolved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
JVM Deadlock was seen related to the static Initialization of a subclass field in class com.pega.decision.strategy.ssa.runtime.collections.api.IntList . Thread dumps showed threads in RUNNABLE State that were parked to wait for class initialization, and this was traced to a missed sonar alert which failed in multi-threading. To resolve this, the system handling has been updated to prevent potential deadlock.
SR-D16427 · Issue 495818
Multi-nodes rebuild LibraryMetadata to ensure all Rule-Utility-Functions are present on change
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
When performing a complete Application import into a clean installation, references to certain Rule-Utility-Functions went unresolved during the initial assembly. Investigation showed that after introducing a new Rule-Utility-Library or Rule-Utility-Function on one node in a cluster and then generating that, the other nodes in the cluster did not have the correct LibraryMetaDataCache for that Rule-Utility-Library.Therefore assemblies on those other nodes could be bad and throw a runtime UnresolvedAssemblyError. This has been resolved by modifying the way the Library subsystem processes the node changes events for Library Generation to ensure that each node completely rebuilds the LibraryMetadata for that Rule-Utility-Library so it contains all the Rule-Utility-Functions.
SR-D18120 · Issue 496424
JMS push notification made more robust
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
After creating a JMS Service to call pySendPushNotification from an activity, running it using User Context worked as expected but selecting initialize Service Context resulted in the Push notification silently failing in the context of JMS service. The JMS is used as a communication medium between legacy and Pega solutions. When the message arrives, Pega creates a new case and sends a push notification to the user, who has only 2 minutes to accept the case. Because of the urgency of timeliness in this situation, the push is sent directly from the context of the service rather than expend 30 seconds for agent processing. However, because the application was not always available to the pySendPushNotification activity (and further to API call), the push failed. In order to avoid this condition, the system has been modified to use the more widely available pxThread instead of Application when possible.
SR-D24187 · Issue 506128
Catch block added to handle invalid FindAndUpdateElement clipboard data
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
An exception was generated relating to "Unable to passivate page on thread '<savedwork>' . The following items were not serializable: [Property not serializable: "Declare_pyDisplay.pyDisplay(InteractionPortal).pyUIElements(3).pyParameters.activityParamPage" Class: "com.pega.pegarules.pub.runtime.ParameterPage." This was traced to invalid data in the clipboard, and has been resolved with the addition of a catch block in pzFindAndUpdateElement Rule-Utility-Function which will put an empty string in the clipboard whenever there is an invalid value in the 'Declare_pyDisplay.pyDisplay().pyUIElements().pyParameters' clipboard page.