SR-D90367 · Issue 556688
Cleanup enhanced for long pyEditElement names
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
A pyEditElement error relating to decision data was seen multiple times in a stack trace. Research showed that while the utility worked as expected for decision data rules with names of less than 30 characters, the pyEditElement section was truncated the name for the decision data. This meant that decision data with the name SampleIssueandSampleGroupTwosalkdjkightntbmkblffvfvfv would be saved as SampleIssueandSampleGroupT for the pyEditElement section. Because of this, the utility failed the match and did not clean up the pyEditElement section. To resolve this, the cleanup utility has been updated to handle pyEditElement sections of decision data with longer names. Additional logging has also been added to improve debugging.
SR-D90779 · Issue 556916
Resolved error when using IHSummary as a predictor
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
After configuring the adaptive model and implementing delayed learning with IHSummary as a predictor, the exception "dataflow.StageException" appeared when the strategy was executed as part of the dataflow run. This has been resolved by implementing a cache expiry of 5 minutes.
SR-D91767 · Issue 559626
VBD planner supports URL encryption
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
When using the VBD planner chart, using configure->Decision->monitoring->Visual Business Director-Datasource and then clicking on actuals generated a popup that did not have any values, and the chart was not loaded. Investigation showed that when the DSS prconfig/initialization/urlencryption/default was set to true, the Pega UI flags for encryption were not visible to code being executed by the VBD planner, resulting in the URLs not getting encrypted. To resolve this, an update has been made to set bEncryptURLs & pega.ctx.bEncryptURLs to true in VBD planner, if URL encryption is enabled.
SR-D93777 · Issue 565693
Handling added for Oracle Aggregate IH Summaries
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
When using using (Non Materialized) IH Summaries to aggregate IH data, the data returned by the IH summary did not include all the expected records. If the same criteria was executed on the database via SQL or by using a strategy to process raw IH data then the results were as expected. This was due to a difference in handling of Oracle vs postgres which causes an order by clause not to be generated in the query: the postgres column name is lower case, while in Oracle it is upper case. This has been resolved by updating the system to get the column name correctly from the propertytocolumn map so IH records are returned in correct order by Browse By Keys operation.
SR-D94409 · Issue 553304
Strategy Explain message includes Component ID
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
The Component ID has been restored to the Explain mode message for strategy results.
SR-D96836 · Issue 555750
Refinements made to MarkerNode memory use
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
Significant memory usage can be observed when data join in strategies are missing the join conditions. E.g., when the primary source in the strategy can have up to 300 or even more propositions, the join without the join condition would perform a cartesian product with possibly up to 400 or even more records returned. This may cause performance degradation. To guard against this, an update has been made that seeks to prevent repetitive markers being accumulated under a MarkerNode while trying not to rely on any implementation of equality and hashCode for individual marker implementations.
SR-D96847 · Issue 556988
Unneeded MBean startup warning removed
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
After upgrade, Catalina logs indicated the error "WARN com.pega.dsm.dnode.api.prpc.service.monitoring.MBeanDSMService - Service DataFlow doesn't implement Monitoring operation". This was due to a flaw in the way the data flow DSM service was initialized in client mode. The exception itself was not a problem and did not impact functionality, but the client initialization has been modified to remove the warning.
INC-126556 · Issue 564032
Declaratives disabled during startup
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.2
Declaratives firing before the engine is fully up can lead to null pointer errors. In order to avoid this condition, declaratives will be disabled during startup so that unnecessary operations can be avoided and system can be started faster.