INC-223851 · Issue 722732
Property encryption documentation updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
Documentation on encryption has been updated to clarify that Property Encrypt policies can only be created in Work- Data- , and Index class descendents.
INC-225373 · Issue 737824
Documentation updated to clarify enabling "Application data encryption" cannot be undone
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
The documentation regarding encrypting application data has been updated to clarify that once "Application data encryption" is enabled, it is only possible to change the platform cipher from one provider to another standard or custom provider but it cannot be disabled or returned to default data settings. "Caution: After you enable application data encryption, you cannot disable it and restore the default settings. However, you can change the initial encryption type to another encryption type as necessary." "Caution: If you delete the KMS master key or the KMS master key expires, Pega Platform cannot decrypt the previously encrypted data, which can result in data loss."
INC-226047 · Issue 726468
Upgrade from Pega 6 documentation updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
The documentation for "upgrading from Pega Platform version 6.3 SP1 or earlier: Starting from a single-schema configuration" has been updated to clarify that a new rules schema should be specified as the target rule schema.
INC-234290 · Issue 742941
Conversational Channel training model documentation updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
Documentation for Conversational Channels has been updated with additional information about the process of creating training data based on CSR actions such as 'create a case' or 'send a reply using suggested/other replies'.
INC-163791 · Issue 704030
Simplified default reference time calculations
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
After a job scheduler was configured to run at Start time = 21:00:00 for Time zone = Europe/London, the scheduler determined 20:00:00 as the next start time. This was due to the calculation for the next start time using the time zone offset calculation pattern for the date and time stored in System-Runtime-Context.pxCreateDateTime, which had difficulty with changes to the time zone definition implemented in the time between the given date and today (meaning the current time) such as daylight savings time. To resolve this, the default reference time from System Runtime Context will be 'now' instead of Date(0).
INC-184964 · Issue 705932
TextMask_Encrypted rule added for use with Oracle
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
When a property was being encrypted by propertyEncrypt access control policy and masked by propertyRead access control policy, it showed a "@@getMaskedValueOfText" error. This has been resolved with the addition of a new rule pxTextMask_Encrypted for Oracle product type which will remove extra spaces from the SOURCE string to handle ORACLE specific usecases.
INC-186897 · Issue 681030
DSS DisableAutoComplete setting honored
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
Setting DisableAutoComplete DSS was not working as expected. This was traced to the system not being able to read the DSS value due to timing related to database startup, and has been resolved by directing the system to read the setting in PREnvironment.java instead of from the prconfig.
INC-191404 · Issue 689095
Tracer settings made configurable for queue processor
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
An enhancement has been added to allow configuring tracer settings for the Queue Processor module.
INC-200030 · Issue 698955
Handling added for external Kafka authorization exception
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
When using external Kafka for stream service, the dataflow was failing with the error 'QueueProcessorDataSubscriberException' when topic create permission was missing. As a workaround, the topics could be pre-created, though a "Topic already exists" warning was generated. To resolve this, the cluster-wide right that a producer needs, IdempotentWrite, has been added. For more information please refer to the link https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/authorization.html
INC-202865 · Issue 709921
Shared partition operations performance improvements
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
A significant performance degradation was seen in queue processor overhead related to maintaining the partition table. This has been resolved by adding an update which will improve partition operations in a shared context.