INC-143121 · Issue 610734
Timeout for loading predictors made configurable
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
When using an extremely large number of predictors, the Report definition pzADMPredictorsFilter was suffering timeouts due to the time for loading predictors from the database exceeding the time threshold allowed. This has been resolved by marking the rule as editable to allow custom setting of the threshold according to need.
INC-143441 · Issue 608898
Strategy Simulation Runs made more resilient
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Intermittently, a decision funnel simulation would fail with particular strategy logic or a particular StrategyTracker would not contain the results for all components so the system would not be able to calculate input SRs. Handling has now been added to make the simulations more resilient so they will not fail with a null pointer error due to incomplete strategy inputs.
INC-144864 · Issue 599147
Unneeded AUC error percentage calculation removed for better system performance
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
When generating snapshots of the ADM models, an inefficiency in the metric calculation for the AUC error percentage caused an excessive amount of memory to be allocated which could cause slowdown or require a system reboot. This has been resolved by removing the problematic AUC error percentage calculation as it is not used in the UI.
INC-148006 · Issue 605583
Enhancements added for very heavy use of strategy decision logic
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Recent updates were made to improve memory performance for scenarios where a single request primary page had tens of thousands of pages under an embedded pagelist property and the decision logic involved a strategy running on all the pages in that page list. To further improve performance, the array iterator has been modified and a DSS has been added that makes the threshold (50) in SSAExecutionContextIteratorFactory tunable.
INC-148899 · Issue 615703
Adaptive models update correctly
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Some models had the recorded responses column updated, but the models (number of Positive, Negative and Processed Responses) were not updated. Investigation showed that deleting the modelRuleConfiguration through the stateManager/client did not delete modelFactories related to the configuration. If a new configuration came in with a different algorithm, the update issue occurred. This has been resolved by reseting the configuration according to its factory in that specific case.
INC-151037 · Issue 609625
Enhanced ADM diagnostic logging
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Diagnostic logging enhancements have been added in order to better identify issues related to ADM models not being created or where learning is impacted.
INC-153223 · Issue 613703
DSS added to set Cassandra query page size limit
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
When a site with a large number of nodes captured responses to the commit log, it was possible for nodes run out of heap space and cause system instability. This was due to the Cassandra query not having a specified page size, so the cluster-wide default setting of 5000 created an issue for large sites which could have over 150 nodes capturing responses. This has been resolved by specifying the page size on the Cassandra query that used to read responses from the commit log. This value will be set dynamically with a DSS to not read more than n responses from all shards combined in a single batch.
INC-154128 · Issue 614295
High thread contention in StrategySSAProgram resolved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
While Running inbound campaigns during peak times, high contention was observed around "threadSafeWrite" and "threadSafeRead". To resolve this and improve performance, the code around handling write locks has been updated.
INC-154889 · Issue 617191
Corrected export of zero value as '0E-9'
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
File Data Set was exporting properties such as pxPriority and pyPropensity as '0E-9' if the value was 0.00000 . This has been corrected.
INC-155822 · Issue 618268
Locking added to avoid Null pointer exception for auto-populate property
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
After configuring the auto populate property "OrgProduct" which referred to a data page, the system experiencing heavy load led to the property not getting properly initialized. This resulted in a WrongModeException and NullPointerException. To resolve this, the system has been updated to lock the requestor when Queue Processors execute their activity. This will prevent race conditions and concurrent modifications if other threads are accessing the same requestor.