SR-D60268 · Issue 521460
Performance and thread-handling improvements for SSA
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.8
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-D68558 · Issue 536676
Timing updated for Cassandra session change thread lock
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.8
An issue with unresponsive nodes was traced to the method used for notifications about Cassandra session changes. A thread trying to obtain a Cassandra session acquired a read lock, then if it then determined that a new session had to be created it would also acquire a write lock, preventing other nodes from trying to acquire the session. After creating a session, the thread notified all session change listeners while holding the write lock, causing deadlock with dependent services. To resolve this, the timing has been updated by moving the session change notification to the listeners outside of the section guarded by the lock.
SR-D85095 · Issue 546340
Updated COUNT logic for strategies with ssavm set to true
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.8
An error was seen when attempting to save a strategy after setting ssavm to true, indicating an issue in the “COUNT” method in Group By shape. Since the source field is not used and does not need to be evaluated here, the system has been updated to ignore the source field if the operation is COUNT.
SR-116508 · Issue 170253
Large flow handling improved for IE8
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.7
When opening a large flow in IE8 which includes multiple sub flows, a long-running script warning is displayed. This is caused by too many calls being executed at once on IE8, and has been remedied by turning on the asyncProcessing parameter for IE8.
SR-116818 · Issue 167121
Corrected swim lane routing with shapes
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.7
While using swim lanes, adding shapes into the flow caused unexpected and random behavior of the process modeler including failure to return control to the user after saving. This error was related to routing handling when swim lanes are present, and has been corrected.
SR-117228 · Issue 168249
Resolved issues with Flow shapes distributed across Swim Lanes
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.7
Pool size is maintained as both pixels and inches, but auto conversion was failing if the pool dimension was very large. This created an error where saving a flow rule could cause the pool to drastically shrink (for example, 20 inches becoming 20 pixels). In order to maintain the proper dimensions, a check has been added for pool and swimlane to ensure the proper inch/pixel conversions.