INC-126129 · Issue 569666
PropertyToColumnMap made more robust
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.9
The DF_ProcessEmails dataflow was intermittently failing with a StageException error. This was traced to schema changes being propagated asynchronously by system pulse, which seem to have caused PropertyToColumnMap to cache stale schema. To resolve this, if the property mapping is not found the first time, the system will make a second attempt to get the mapping. Additional logging has also been added for better diagnostics.
INC-128385 · Issue 564521
Behavior made consistent between SSA and legacy engines
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.9
There was a behavioral disparity between the legacy execution engine and the SSA engine where the latter was not creating a new page when the index was one above the size of the page list. This has now been corrected in order to make the SSA behavior fully backward compatible with the legacy engine, i.e. a new blank page will be added to the list if the index is one above the size of the list.
INC-129222 · Issue 568530
Handling improvements for commit logs
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.9
The ADM commit log logs the number of unconsumed messages that are going to expire. In certain circumstances, it can include unconsumed messages that are not going to expire in the count. Because they are not expired and removed, the environment was running out of disk space due to the ADM commitlogs table growing larger than expected and performance issues were seen. To resolve this, a new adm_commitlog.adm_responses_commit_log_date_tiered table has been created, with a default_time_to_live of 24 hours. DateTieredCompactionStrategy has been set with max_window_size_seconds as 24hrs and tombstone_compaction_interval as 24hrs.
INC-132976 · Issue 580685
Performance improvements for Test Strategy data flow
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.9
In the Test Strategy panel under Single case -> "Settings", selecting the "Data flow" option and choosing CustomerData dataflow was taking an excessive amount of time to run on a system with an extremely large database. To improve performance, two areas have been addressed: 1) the default behavior for record key suggestions in the test panel has been modified to collect only the ID as the additional data is not necessary at that time; 2) a DSS has been added that will opt out of reading and collecting the customer IDs in order to minimize data stored on the clipboard.
INC-138037 · Issue 586593
Strategy handling updated for very large systems using IH summary
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.9
When a Strategy in a Real-time dataflow used IH Summary on a system with more than 5000 groups for one eventKey, the message "Error retrieving aggregates from Cassandra KVS" intermittently appeared. Investigation showed that if the number of result rows was greater than the FETCH_SIZE (set to 5000), it meant another read to Cassandra was required and an exception was generated. To resolve this, updates have been made so that instead of returning maps, the system will return iterators and change them to map on the calling thread.
SR-D92734 · Issue 553412
Simulation can take Data flow type as destination
Resolved in Pega Version 8.1.9
Support has been added for Data flow functionality as simulation target and data transform in simulation input.
INC-129910 · Issue 582545
Improved performance for Queries on VBD keyspace
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
Unrestrained VBD queries were causing poor performance for very large Cassandra clusters. This was traced to queries which were not restrained with a WHERE clause, and has eben resolved by updating two identified Cassandra queries that do not contain WHERE clauses to operate within token ranges rather than across the entire Cassandra cluster.
INC-136634 · Issue 591678
Thread contention resolved for InteractionHistoryQuery
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
High thread contention was observed while running Inbound load tests. This was traced to pzLoadInteractionHistory invoking a generated strategy to retrieve ihFields from InteractionHistoryQuery using the getUsedInteractionHistoryFields() method: because this method is synchronized, it caused a bottleneck. To resolve this, the synchronized methods have been replaced with the appropriate data structures.
INC-138501 · Issue 592287
Added VBD support for CSRF token setting
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
Attempting to open any VBD reports in the marketing portal for a simulation test caused the user to be logged out. Investigation showed that this happened when CSRF token check was enabled in System > Settings > Cross-Site Request Forgery, and was caused by the planner not passing the CSRF tokens in its Ajax calls. To resolve this, handling for the CSRF tokens has been added to the necessary Ajax calls.
INC-139574 · Issue 606141
Exception handling added for dataflow rule assembly
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
A Blue Screen error was coming up in the Customer Service Web Chat Application after an agent accepted the incoming chat request and sent messages in the chatbox in the Interaction portal. This has been resolved by adding handling for exceptions that occur when inlining templates during dataflow rule assembly, when inlining templates, we weren't handling exceptions properly.