SR-D52723 · Issue 516091
Data join conditions representation updated to avoid overwrite
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
After upgrade, a Data join component on the Strategies was not working as expected, especially the ones using the DateTime function. If the data join conditions were swapped, i.e the DateTime function was not the last criteria, the strategy outputs were correct.Investigation showed that the implementation used a map to represent pairs of left and right expressions which caused conditions rows with the same leftExpr to end up overwriting one another. This has been corrected by fixing the representation of conditions of a Data Join to a list of tuples which eliminates the possibility of one condition overwriting a previous one.
SR-D53223 · Issue 516917
Predictor handling updated for Versioning Adaptive Model
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When attempting to update an adaptive model in a branch after it had been versioned, errors were observed on Predictor Type data that had not changed from the previous version. This was traced to an issue in the Adaptive Model rule UI in both Prediction and Dev Studio where if a non-default predictor type is selected, it would show in the UI but not be saved to the database. No error was shown. This silently led to the unexpected and incorrect data being stored with the result that once data had accrued, the rule could not be saved/saved-as due to validation believing the predictor type of a predictor with data was changing. To resolve this, rules have been updated so that the system will no longer override the predictor type of a predictor being edited when it is solely the predictor type that is changing.
SR-D53225 · Issue 516317
Rule creation logic updated to include creation branch
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When trying to create a new adaptive model rule in Prediction Studio, the “Create” button was not activating. The adaptive model rule was being saved in a branch ruleset, and investigation indicated that the deactivated button could be traced to the lack of an open ruleset version available even though the intention was to create it on a branch. This has been resolved by modifying the rule creation logic to incorporate the branch for creation.
SR-D54602 · Issue 517308
Prconfigs added to support Cassandra Speculative Based Execution
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
In order to achieve high availability for Cassandra, prconfigs have been added to support speculative execution. The available prconfigs will enable it, and set maximum number of executions and delay before the next execution is launched. The prconfigs are: dnode/cassandra_speculative_execution_policy dnode/cassandra_speculative_execution_policy/max_executions dnode/cassandra_speculative_execution_policy/delay
SR-D56841 · Issue 518315
Marketing Offers enahnced to support Always/Never/Timeframe
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
The Action (offer rule) availability did not align with the availability in Proposition Management. To resolve this, the pxManageProposition platform API has been enhanced to support 1) Always 2) Never 3) Within a defined time period.
SR-D16934 · Issue 493702
External Cassandra nodes listed in DDS cluster
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Nodes of an external Cassandra cluster were not listed in the DDS cluster except for the first one in the host list, and when the “only” listed Cassandra node was restarted, the status on the DDS cluster LP did not become “NORMAL” afterwards. In addition, even though other C* nodes were up and running, the external Cassandra cluster was reported as unreachable. This was an unintended side effect of work done on the landing page to reflect the real state of the nodes after some were killed and restarted, and has been corrected by refining the equals() and hashCode() methods for DDS member info in order to better differentiate the external Cassandra nodes.
SR-D22686 · Issue 493516
IH summaries working with external Cassandra
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Summaries were not working for external Cassandra. This was an issue with the IH summary component using the aggregated dataset as a reference, and this fix contains several components to improve this function. An issue where the IH aggregates dataset does not materialize when DDS is external Cassandra has been resolved by modifying the code that checks the DDS availability. A filter that was used to match “” did not work when pre-aggregation is off : this was due to the IH Browse operation being done outside of a DF context, and has been fixed. The IH Summary shape not working properly in a strategy if it referenced an aggregate dataset with pxInteractionID as part of the group-by properties was traced to an issue with it generating a pxInteractionID value when executing the strategy, and has been resolved by excluding pxInteractionID from the group keys in the IH Summary shape.
SR-D24880 · Issue 494171
CEP bucket size increased to 1 minute
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Frequent DSM Data Flow Errors were observed in production nodes with very high event rates. This was traced to the default bucket size for CEP being 1 second for a 31 day window, which was not sufficient to handle high volume use which may create an event strategy window large enough to hit the Cassandra column size limit. In order to resolve this, the default bucket size has been increased from 1 second to 1 minute.
SR-D25184 · Issue 494689
Support added for referencing Page Group property inside of strategy
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Referencing a page property under Page Group property inside a strategy resulted in a runtime error of ClassCasting: "java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to com.pega.decision.strategy.ssa.runtime.ClipboardPage". The issue was traced to the SSA optimized code for the GetPage SSA assuming that the GetPage SSA would only have another page as a parent. In order to handle the above scenario where GetPage would have a GetPageCollection as a parent and return a List of ClipboardPages, a GetPage function has been applied over each entry in the results of the GetPageCollection SSA using a MapAction SSA. Some optimizations will be applied in cases where the GetPageCollection has only one entry, which will replace the MapAction with a simple GetPage action.
SR-D26010 · Issue 500163
Modified VBD insertion logic to improve handling
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
An issue with not being able to launch an additional VDB node was traced to two processes inserting into VBD with different field signatures and triggering unnecessary object creation. This was amplified when adding a second node as the objects were serialized. To resolve this, the insertion logic has been modified to avoid creating new data container/field descriptors after a new field is included, as well as a measurement with smaller data type than previous container.