INC-142084 · Issue 599876
Support added for expression in strategy scorecards
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
When invoking REST against a dataflow that had a strategy containing a scorecard that used an expression and the "Include model explanations option" was enabled in the Strategy configuration, the system failed with the error "PropertyValueInvalid .pxMaxScore Cannot cast the value (unknown) to double". This was traced to the Scorecard explanations failing during serialization when an expression was used, and has been corrected.
INC-143927 · Issue 599491
Oracle database performance improvements
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
When the IH Summary was enabled and materialized on an ADM model, updating the ADM model was very slow on large sites. This has been resolved by adding several performance improvements for working with Oracle databases, including Oracle pre/post processing steps.
SR-D93777 · Issue 565692
Handling added for Oracle Aggregate IH Summaries
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
When using using (Non Materialized) IH Summaries to aggregate IH data, the data returned by the IH summary did not include all the expected records. If the same criteria was executed on the database via SQL or by using a strategy to process raw IH data then the results were as expected. This was due to a difference in handling of Oracle vs postgres which causes an order by clause not to be generated in the query: the postgres column name is lower case, while in Oracle it is upper case. This has been resolved by updating the system to get the column name correctly from the propertytocolumn map so IH records are returned in correct order by Browse By Keys operation.
SR-D95605 · Issue 565486
Data Flow correctly saved to Database table Dataset
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
After setting up a dataflow with Report definition as a source and Database table dataset as destination with the option "Insert new records and override existing", a data transform was used to modify a few of the values and write to the same database table. This table was mapped to pegadata schema and didn't have a pzpvstream column. Running the data transform generated an exception stating "DataStoreSaveStatementWithoutStream(PageDatabaseMapperImpl). The error was not seen when the pzpvstream column was added or if pzInskey was also removed along with pzpvstream, or if "only insert new records" was selected. This was traced to pzInsKey and pxInsName being null in the query formed while writing. There are two execution paths for the database dataset save operation, one for internal tables and another one for external tables. For a table with pzInskey but no blob, the system was incorrectly using the external table logic. This has been corrected.
SR-D89428 · Issue 550391
Data Flow StartTime uses locale timezone
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.3
The start time of the dataflow was displayed in GMT instead of the operator locale timezone. This has been corrected.
SR-D77157 · Issue 544471
DataSet preview will use date instead of datetime
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.3
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-D87709 · Issue 552397
Default context check added for saving adaptive model with locked rulesets
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.3
When updating an adaptive model rule in Prediction Studio, the error message "No unlocked Rulesets/Versions found that are valid for this record. Unlock at least one Ruleset/Version that can contain records of this type." appeared when clicking Save. This occurred when a branch was used in the default context of the Prediction Studio settings. Although there was a workaround to use Dev Studio to Save As the adaptive model rule to the required branch, this has been resolved by adding a check for default context and then saving the model there if it is mentioned.
SR-D89012 · Issue 550799
DelegatedRules refresh icon made accessible
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.3
When using Accessibility, the refresh icon in pzDelegatedRules was being read as "Link". This has been corrected by adding text for the refresh icon.
SR-D85558 · Issue 548285
Handling added for prolonged Heartbeat Update Queries
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.3
After restart, the pyFTSIncrementalIndexer queue size had hundreds of thousands of entries even though it was empty prior to the restart.Investigation traced this to a job scheduler that checked all the database connections everyday at 1 EST by using a list that contained some connections which did not exist. Checking those invalid connections caused other update queries to queue and wait, resulting in the update heartbeat query taking longer than its default beat. This caused a Split Brain issue wherein other nodes considered the long-executing node to be dead and triggered a rebalance while the node itself continued to execute partitions thinking that it was healthy. This caused duplicate processing of records. To resolve this, a fail safe has been added: while updating heartbeat in Service Registry, nodes will enter safe mode when the update query is taking longer than the default beat.
SR-D82727 · Issue 547722
Improved management for table pr_log_dataflow_events
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.3
The Lifecycle event table was sometimes growing too large. This additional strain of database transaction volume caused poor performance on the Dataflow tier and lead to cluster instability and time-consuming cluster restarts. Due to problems in one of the Pulse tasks, the Pulse thread was not processing single case metrics properly and causing the unbounded queue for single case to grow. This has been addressed by switching to a fixed queue size, which is configurable with the DSS: dnode/single_case_queue_size. The default value of the DSS is 4000, and if changed a system restart is required. An error will be logged each 1000 queue misses, and metrics will be dropped if the queue is full. In addition, the Pulse task frequency has been improved and managed to prevent interference with other Pulse tasks and will be triggered only if a run is system-paused for a long interval. Rebalances now have a failsafe if something unexpected happens during the Pausing of the run, and If the cluster becomes unstable, the life cycle events logs may be disabled with dataflow/run/events/persist .