INC-181401 · Issue 665935
Added handling for MS SQL datestamp format
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
When using an Microsoft SQL Server, the browse operation was failing with an SQL error for the pyIHSummary dataset. Investigation showed there were some datasets that generated SQL statements with a date timestamp format that SQL was not able to handle implicitly, affecting browsing but not functionality. This has been resolved.
INC-182137 · Issue 662487
Multistage Prediction Logic improved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
When Predictions with Response wait time configured were executed as part of make decision, each decision that came out of the strategy caused a pxDR call to fetch the relevant model execution results and process them to stage the default outcome results for models. This has been improved by modifying the system to process the existing records rather than reading data again from pxDR.
INC-183431 · Issue 665161
Strategy execution queries tuned
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
During NBA strategy execution, interaction history summaries were queried multiple times for a single strategy execution. To improve this function, the isChanged query will now be executed once after system startup if there are no changes instead of being executed every time the Aggregates DataSet BBK is executed. If the same Aggregates query is made multiple times as part of a Strategy in a REST request (i.e. likely multiple ADM models in a MakeDecision call), only one Aggregates BBK call will be made.
INC-185045 · Issue 672418
Performance improvements for action check-in
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
The process of 'Saving As' an action to a higher ruleset, Saving, and then running Check-in was taking an excessive amount of time. This was traced to redundant page copy activities and performance has been improved by updating the implementation.
INC-186889 · Issue 674015
Unused DSS compiledExpressions now defaults to false
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
After updating from Pega 8.2 to Pega 8.5, executing a test campaign failed with an error in logs. This occurred when running Distribution tests with "Include funnel analysis reports" checked, and was traced to the DSS setting "decision/strategy/ssaVM/compiledExpressions". As this was previously used to toggle a feature which is no longer in use, the default setting for this DSS has now been changed to false to resolve this issue.
INC-188389 · Issue 672761
ComponentName fallback added for toggling page context
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
Whenever the External Strategy configuration was changed from "Another Page" to "Current Page", pyComponentName property was not being created. This was a missed use case for toggling page context for external substrategies in the user interface of the strategy designer, and has been resolved by setting pyComponentName to its default if reset when switching context.
INC-188419 · Issue 671500
DSS added to configure usage of Topup
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.2
During NBAD-generated strategy execution, each interaction history summary is queried twice to check data relevancy. This update adds configuration options to disable topup in aggregate datasets. Topup can be disabled with the following configuration items:- Set prconfig "ih/aggregates/last_customer_update_method" to NONE - Set DSS "cep/aggregates_dataset/partition_proc_cache_time" to -1
INC-174661 · Issue 678823
Handling added for clearing node killed between assignment and processing
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
An Offer flow was not resuming after it expired according to the wait shape. Investigation traced this to partitions which were assigned to a dead node in NEW state where they were not picked up by the dataflow. The problem was only encountered in the unusual situation when a dataflow node was killed in the brief period of time between the assignment and the processing, and has been resolved by adding an update which will clear unknown new assigned partitions for the batch run health task.
INC-179879 · Issue 664804
Localization added to DelegateDescription
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
Localization was not working correctly for the description of a delegated rule due to pyDelegeteDescription being defined with a non-localized Property value. This has been resolved by localizing the property value for pyDelegeteDescription.
INC-183211 · Issue 667011
Compare-To-Empty-String support added to Analyzer
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
An enhancement has been added to support a NotEquals decision function in the Analyzer.