INC-164514 · Issue 635085
Unnecessary logging removed from startup
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
The error "SettingMisusageFailure: Database is null" was repeatedly being logged following an update that consolidated error-handling logic for using a third-party custom jar file during the compiling process. This was an unnecessary message for this scenario as the database is often null at the early stages of startup, and SystemSettingsImpl has been updated to skip logging this error.
INC-166498 · Issue 637351
Locking and classmap improvements
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
Threads were getting stuck inside classMap and tableInformationMap, causing nodes to go down. This was traced to issues with class map performance and locking, and has been resolved by replacing the lock library with a newer version and refactoring the tableInformationMapImpl class to use a concurrent hashmap instead.
INC-85182 · Issue 622326
Process added to clear unneeded requestors from shared pools
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
Shared service requestor pools were persistently showing a growing count of active requestors when a service was under heavy use, potentially leading to timeouts and exceptions. Investigation showed requestors were moving from active to inactive without updating the pool manager, causing service requestor pools to be held in an inconsistent state with active requestor pools not going down even after completion of service request. To resolve this, a job scheduler process has been added to stabilize the service requestor pools heuristically.
INC-135015 · Issue 591982
Handling added for overriding questions rules
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
After overriding questions rules and then upgrading/validating Question Groups, questions were not shown. It was necessary to manually edit, save, and refresh for the questions to appear, affecting mainly Rule-PegaQ-QuestionGroup rules. This was traced to missing handling for this usecase. The commit was added in Revalidate and Save, which was committing different data because the upgraded data was not copied back to step page being used. Due to this, the commit in BulkValidateSave was overriding the changes done in the pzUpgradeSurveyInstance activity, and the survey upgrade was failing. To support this use, Page-Copy has been added to pzUpgradeSurveyInstance after the pzSaveSurveyInstance call step to copy the updated data to the step page which will later be committed by BulkValidateSave during revalidate and save.
INC-135720 · Issue 594793
Case link shows in Social messages for the old cases
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
After upgrade from v7, the case link was not visible for the cases that were created in the old platform version. In Pega 7.1.7, metadata was stored in .pyPrivacyContextor while the later versions are using .pxContextType for Case type to show the related data. To resolve this, new properties have been implemented to hold the Case ID link.
INC-136091 · Issue 598905
Activity updated for Mobile attachment access
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
Preview and download were not working for attachments stored in Pega Cloud Storage repository for mobile devices. Attempting to open an email attachment to preview or download resulted in a console error and the tracer showed the message 'Class pxLinkedRefTo does not exist'. This has been resolved by updating "pzpega_control_attachutil" to use the activity "GetAttachmentReference" for interactions with the attachments from any storage type.
INC-136202 · Issue 603904
Needed offline mobile resource added for upgraded channels
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
The error "Mobile login issue - "Resource missing. See client logs" appeared after upgrading the platform and updating the mobile channel interface. A logout button appeared, and clicking it generated a popup with "Cancel" and "Log off" buttons. Clicking Cancel returned the user to the default UI in the mobile screen. This was traced to py-avatar.css not being present, which is a resource needed for the offline application with the current platform, and this has now been added.
INC-136410 · Issue 591892
Check for mobile added
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
While performing external assignment in the Designer Studio, the console error "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'isMultiWebViewOfflinePegaMobileClient' of undefined" was generated. Investigation showed that this was caused by the pega_desktop_api checking pega.mobile.isMultiWebViewOfflinePegaMobileClient, which was undefined while not working on mobile. To resolve this, a check for mobile has been added.
INC-136768 · Issue 588451
Question Wizard import will downcase answer types to match system requirements
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
The Question Upload wizard would not create a File type question while using a survey template. The template has a column Answer mode in which accepts an input of the type of answer expected, but in this use case "File" was given instead of "file", resulting in the question being created using the default values. To resolve this, during the import process when the system parses the file and gets the contents from the data using the pzSetdefaultValuesforQuestions DT, mode values will be explicitly set to lowercase.
INC-138106 · Issue 601809
Documentation update for offline apps
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
Information in the top-level offline guidelines article has been updated to include a recommendation to avoid using declarative indices in offline-enabled mobile apps as these may cause multiple duplicated indices to be created in the database.