SR-D37945 · Issue 506798
Server node cache refresh will use remote execution timeout
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
A campaign was failing due to VBD remote ping timeout with a stacktrace that indicated a StageException. Investigation showed that when the cluster is heavily loaded, calls to the remote execution API could time out. If this occurred when the VBD client was refreshing its cache of VBD server nodes, then the insert failed and the error was propagated up the calling data flow. To resolve this, the system will use the remote execution timeout when refreshing node cache, extend the timeout to 60 seconds, and ensure timeouts are retried during inserts.
SR-D38415 · Issue 507994
Resolved Transfer to Queue duplicate assignments
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
The Transfer to a Queue option was creating duplicate assignments after accepting the Chat. Once the chat was accepted, an instance was created\maintained in both Assign-Workbasket and Assign-Worklist tables. This happened after adding the "Transfers" queue to an Agent; if that queue was not added, the transfer to a queue option gave an error to the Agent receiving\accepting the chat. The Work-.ReassignDefaults activity is an extension that was customized in the Pega-DecisionManager ruleset for a certain use case in revision management. The customization is no longer required and has become redundant and has therefore been removed to resolve this issue.
SR-D43470 · Issue 511439
Adjusted generated file cleanup to resolve class not found issues
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
After upgrade, attempting to run a new multi-channel campaign failed with an error citing "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/pegarules/generated/testgen/Rule_Decision_DDF_Data_Decision_Request_Customer_DF_ProcessOffer_Action". This was traced to a temporary directory with generated java files that was cleaned up before the restart, leading to the .Class file for the DF_ProcessOffer not being present when needed. This has been resolved by adjusting the cleanup of the files so they are not removed too early.
SR-D44159 · Issue 512447
Refined Change Request creation logic
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Once a Change Request was terminated/closed with the X button available on the UI, the Change Request was created but could not be opened from the Report Manager landing page. Investigation showed that a change request created from the new revision button or create change request in the refine selection screen did not yet have pyLabel available in the CR because the assignment would not be submitted at this stage (Refine selection screen). Once the assignment was submitted, the pyLabel value would be committed to the database and be available in the change request. To resolve this, the CR creation rules have been modified and will set the pylabel value.
SR-D41616 · Issue 509808
Corrected Cassandra startup error related to client authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
During provisioning, Cassandra nodes in PegaDDSTier failed to join the cluster and the error "Exception (org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException) encountered during startup: Invalid yaml. Those properties [truststore_password, truststore] are not valid" was generated. Investigation showed that the recent addition of support for client authentication using the settings "dnode/cassandra_client_encryption/truststore" and "dnode/cassandra_client_encryption/truststore_password" resulted in nulls being set cassandra.yaml if the new parameters were not given values. To resolve this, truststore and truststore_password will not be added to cassandra.yaml when they are not set in prconfig or system settings.
SR-D68707 · Issue 529871
Update Handler will not run during migration
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Rolling restart of DataFlow, ADM ,VBD, and Util Tiers failed with a PENDING_JOINING error after an in-place upgrade. This was traced to the logic for the update timing: when nodes start after an upgrade from 7.x to 8.x they will migrate data flow runs. Migration happens on only one node, and while it's in progress the other nodes will wait until migration finishes before they come up. At this point the state of the data flow services will be 'PENDING JOINING'. The issue is that while migrating runs, the Data Flow Update Handler was triggered to validate whether there were nodes available on the service the run belongs to. This call can cause the corresponding data flow service to be initialized, but the call will be blocked since all services wait for the migration to end. This resulted in a deadlock which prevented all nodes from coming up successfully. To resolve this, the process has been updated to skip the update handler during migration to avoid triggering the initialization of client services that are waiting on the migration lock.
SR-D74117 · Issue 539463
DDS service will not run Hazelcast check if external Cassandra is configured
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Services were not responding, and thread dumps seen in the logs indicated that a large number of threads were waiting for one to come back from getting the cluster state for a DSM process. Investigation showed that the threads were waiting for a Hazelcast response about the cluster state. However, since a Hazelcast call is not needed when Pega is configured with external Cassandra, the DDS Service code has been changed to not to check for candidate nodes if configured with external Cassandra cluster.
SR-D75519 · Issue 536719
Corrected calculating propensities
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Several PMML models designed to compare the outcomes to a control dataset experienced an issue where the probability scores in Pega did not match the original control dataset. The PMML model was also tested using KNIME; those results matched Pega but not the original control dataset. Investigation showed that the JPMML evaluator contained outdated code, and the incorrect calculations have been resolved.
SR-D77157 · Issue 544473
DataSet preview will use date instead of datetime
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
While using a DataSet preview functionality, the date appeared as reduced by one day. This has been resolved by parsing date as 'date' instead of 'datetime' to avoid issues with timezone interactions.
SR-D78940 · Issue 542928
Dataflow monitoring enhanced
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Enhanced monitoring and healthchecks have been added for dataflow and alerts.