What's new in Process Commander 6.1SP2

SP2 can be installed on IBM z/OS with WebSphere X.X, using IBM's DB2 database in native mode. An installation guide for this configuration is available.

Installation scripts are available for double-byte Unicode. VERIFY

Optionally, your applications can provide users will full-text search capabilities for many file attachments, those that are saved Microsoft Office files (including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint) and those that are in Adobe System's Portable Document Format (PDF). See Systems category — Settings page and Understanding Full-text Search.

Static assembler enhancements DETAILS?

The Manager and User composite portals are tested with Google's Chrome 5 browser for Windows. VERIFY

Microsoft Office 2010 support -- Visio, Excel, Word GRP-18134VERIFY

Numerous enhancements are available for report definition rules:

• When choosing the fields that are to appear as columns, you can select columns correspond to indexed values of embedded propertes. GRP-11532/GRP-14096 See Report Definition rules — Completing the Data Access tab.
• Report Definition rules support trend reports. You can identify time periods and other values using standard SQL function alias rules, which eliminate the need for custom SQL or custom GetContent activities. See:
  • Report Definition rules — Completing the Data Access tab
  • Atlas — Standard SQL Function Alias rules
  • About Function Alias rules
• From the Manager portal, help topics are available for the Report Browser and Report Viewer.
• Report categories and report shortcuts are a rule type, so they are included in RuleSet versions and can easily be migrated from system to system. See About Category rules and About Shortcut rules.
• Reports on work objects or work object history can use a work pool as the Applies To key part. Report contents will include all work types in the work pool.. GRP-17252. See Report Definition rules — Completing the New or Save As form.
• When selecting columns for a report, you can include fields from joined abstract classes. You can define multistep joins. See Report Definition rules — Completing the Data Access tab.
• A report can select rows based on comparisons of two property values. See Rows to Include in Report Defininition rules — Completing the Design tab.
• Other help topics affected : GRP-13609. See shortcuts -- category --- Report Browser ---- Report Viewer

Version 2.2 of the optional Business Intelligence Exchange product is available. See BIX and About Extract Rules.

The default login creen displays the System Version, build, and node. NOT WORKING? See How to modify the splash image and log-in form.GRP-18056

A new portal provides direct access to the features needed by business analysts, such as the Discovery Map and Governance xxxxxxxxxxxx. See:

• About the Business Analyst portal. GRP-15658
• Business Analyst portal — Home page
• Business Analyst portal — About Landing pages
• Atlas - Standard Portal rules

The Business Analyst portal supports the analyst's ability to monitor the success of the application through Key Performance Indicators. GRP-14913

A help topic is available for each landing page. Click the help button ( ) on each page to access the corresponding help topic. GRP-15754

Option to view a flow's Discovery Map in the flow rule form. Flow form - Interacting with the Diagram tabGRP-16027

Organization Setup wizard produces [email protected] GRP-18342 See Organization & Security category - Organization pagex

Default system login screen displays the System Version and Build and Node information How to modify the splash image and log-in formGRP-18073 Definitions: System Name and Node.

What's Happening display can be accessed in different areas of the product. GRP-14966Working with the What's Happening display

Landing pages - click on a rule name (not the open button) to open the rule. GRP-14057

New scheduling settings to run unit test suites (Run Now, run as other operator, send multiple confirmation emails) GRP-15900, GRP-15901, GRP-16718

Ability to ignore differences directly from the unit test suite report GRP-15914

Improvements to automated generation of decision table test cases GRP-17279, GRP-17517, GRP-17464

Work with test case rules directly from the Test Cases tab GRP-15916

Re-record test case with same name GRP-15910

New options for automated testing of activities (ignore top-level pages, overwrite tests that have page differences)GRP-15896, GRP-15905

New options for automated testing of SOAP Services (ignore top-level pages) GRP-15896

Ability to save ignored properties across all test cases for rule types in addition to flow rules, that are supported by automated testing (decision tables, decision trees, activities, SOAP services)GRP-16492

Through a prconfig.xml setting, you can control how declarative expression rules execute during list view and summary view rules. See More about Summary View rules --- More about List View rules--- More about Declarative Expression rules. GRP-15041

Optionally, your application can detect and intercept processing of correspondence for which one or more property values were blank, for research and remedial action. See More about Correspondence rules. GRP-16765 GRP-16937 GRP-17196.

A new alert PEGA0042 xxxxxxxxxxxxx Understanding Alerts

Enhancements to DBTrace output

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New rule type Subscription List (Rule-SubscriptionList) GRP-16855

A new rule type allows your application to subscribe to Atom feeds. See:

• About Connect Atom rules. GRP-13306
• About Atom Server data instancesGRP-16820
• About SOAP Server data instances
• Connect-Atom method
• ATOM Syndication Protocol - definition

A new rule type (Connect CMIS) allows your applications to connect to enterprise content management systems — such as Alfresco, Microsoft SharePoint, and EMC Documentum — that support the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services v1.0 standard. Your application can list documents in a document repository, open documents using the appropriate client software, insert documents and remove documents.This optional capability requires that the Pega-Content be installed. Classes are Pega-Content-Repository or Data-Content-ObjGRP-15961 See:

• Content Management Interoperability Services - definition
• Connect-CMIS method
• About Connect CMIS rules

If your application uses a CMIS connector, you may store all work object file attachments in the content management system. GRP-17333 GRP-18425 XXXXXXXXxx

Connect HTTP rules now support binary MIME attachments GRP-5752-1 See Connect HTTP rules — More about Connect HTTP rules.

Support for the JSR-286 portlet standard V2.0. See About Service Portlet rules.

Failover for outbound email; messages queued for resend if connection to the email server fails.

Text Input control (auto-generated) GRP-14170

HTML property rules are now known as controls. They are part of the User Interface category. GRP-14732

Three auto-generated controls are included in V6.1SP2. See:

• About Section rules
• Section rules — Adding a pxTextInput control
• Section rules — Adding a TextArea control
• Section rules — Adding a pxButton control

The control rule (formerly HTML Property rule) has been enhanced to allow auto-generation of the HTML, JSP tags, and JavaScript code. xxxxx A new tab Control accepts the fields that support auto-generation. See About Control rules and Control rules — Completing the Control tab.

Definition: auto-generated HTML ,

Atlas — Standard Auto-generated control rules

The three new layouts introduced in V6.1 can use a report definition as as a data source. See GRP-7426

• Adding a Grid layout
• Adding a Tree layout
• Adding a TreeGrid layout
• More about Report Definition rules

Sequoia row-height checkbox and other design time changes xxxxxxxxxxxx GRP-13555

Sequoia layouts support paging GRP-16399

Sequoia layouts support sorting GRP-12805

Single facility for auto-generated lists GRP-14179

Sequoia layouts apply branding

Sequoia - Edit in Embedded pane

Sequoia - performance improvement

Sequoia - Branding wizard changes

Modal dialog can use a report definition as data source GRP-7426 - How to create a modal dialog

Rich Text Editor - supports stretching to fill the available horizontal and vertical space.

Rich Text Editor - Performance improvement

Sequoia sorting GRP-14186

• Adding a Grid layout
• Adding a Tree layout
• Adding a TreeGrid layout

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• A new Application Packaging wizard allows you to create a product rule for an entire application, including data instances as well as RuleSets. See Application Category — Import and Export landing page and About the Application Packaging wizard.
• Command line support for Product ZIP archives
• GRP-6536 / GRP-2757 Import Export is now screen flow?. Background process implementation.

New approach to Work DOCs as Use Case attachments. Include in generated documentation. GRP-18373

????? Optionally, you can present the Discovery Map (rather than the detailed flow diagram) on the Diagram tab of the flow rule. See Flow rule — Completing the Diagram tab. GRP-16027

SP2 introduces new case management facilities.

A new landing page lets you interactively define the structure of cases Process and Rules category — Case Management page.

• case management
• case type gadget GRP-15685
• My Cases display GRP-16482
• Case Management Designer GRP-15686

Definitions: ad hoc work, subcase

Use of SHA-1 hash code rather than MD5 hash code for the PASSWORD property type (really a V5.X change) See Advanced --- More --- Encryption -- Value mode

The Rule Security Analyzer, implemented by the optional Pega-SecurityVA RuleSet, is enhanced to allow users to compose regular expressions to use in scanning application rules. See Rule Security Analyzer.

VER 2.2 is available. See Virtual Enterprise Repository. GRP-15562

Ability to update Data-Admin-System-Setting from the command line GRP-XXXXX do not document?

Ability to create new Data-Admin-DB-Table and databases tables for Work- by copying GRP-15741, GRP-15419 16938 and others Each class group and its member work types stored in a dedicated table.

Property Exposure and Schema Migration GRP-15423 GRP-16714 (may not make SP2 6.2??? )do not document?

A new landing page gadget simplifies the process of identifying any final rules in your application that may conflict with final rules in Process Commander itself. See: GRP-17168 Application Category — Application Structure page.

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(See CMIS above )

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Changes to the Case Type rule provide additional options about which subcases can be created, under what conditions. See Case Type rules  — Completing the Processes tab. GRP-15279

New standard flows provide an initial bases for case management processing GRP-18512

• StandardAssignment???
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SP2 incorporates several performance improvements in various features. Notable performance improvements were achieved in the following areas:

• Rules assembly and rule compilation
• Declarative networks for backward chaining
• Interactions with Grid, Tree, and TreeGrid layouts
• The Rich Text Editor can handle larger quantities of input text