Tools — System

Use these links to learn about PRPC tools, accelerators, landing page tabs and wizards that support system-wide tasks, including performance analysis, database, and system operations.

Name	Purpose
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Column Population Jobs	Displays the status of property optimization jobs run in the background.
Compiler	Identifies the classpath and external JAR files that support Service JAVA rules.
Correspondence Output Server	Format and print outgoing correspondence to be formatted by Microsoft Word, operating in a background process
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Database Trace	Monitor the SQL interactions between PRPC's server engine and the PegaRULES database or external relational databases, and the operation of the rule cache.
Delete a Class	Remove a class, all of its pattern- inheritance dependent classes and associated objects such as properties, activities, instances (including work items, attachments and assignments)
Delete a RuleSet	Delete an entire RuleSet or a specific version of a RuleSet
Duplicate Properties	Identify properties within your current application (and built-on applications) that have duplicate names, which can hurt performance.
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Final Conflicts	List the rules in the current application that have potential conflicts with final rules.
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Hotfix Installer	Download and install hotfixes.
Hotfix Status	Show the set of hotfixes that are available within the system.
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License Compliance facility	Reports to provide evidence that usage remains within the parameters established in your software license.
Logging Level Settings	Lets you temporarily override the severity settings in the prlogging.xml file for the current node, and control which logging events appear in the Pega log.
Log Files	Lets you view or download the current Pega log, Security log, Alert log or other logs on the server node you are accessing.
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Modify Schema	View and manually modify the database schema.
My Alerts	View lines from the current Alert log on the server node produced by your own requestor session
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Optimize Schema	Evaluates database optimizations that could improve system performance, database size or other resource use
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PAL	Display in detail the system resources consumed by processing of a single requestor session, or the SQL statements sent to the PegaRULES database by the requestor session.
Package Work	Create a product rule that identifies the work items, assignments, history, and attachments for an application.
Performance Profiler	Obtain a detailed trace of performance information about the execution of activities, when condition rules, and data transforms executed by your requestor session
Product Migration	Lets you automatically archive, migrate, and import a product package to one or more destination systems.
Project Management	Allows you to quickly set up connectivity between your applications and the Project Management Framework.
Property Optimization	Allows you to expose a top-level Single Value property as a database column
Purge/Archive	Use an agent to automatically delete old work item data from the respective tables and/or store them in ZIP archive files
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Refactor on Import	Rename classes in a RuleSet archive or product archive as it is imported.
Refactor rules	Move rules with a specific Applies To class from one RuleSet into another RuleSet or another Applies To class, removing them from the current RuleSet.
Rename a Class	Rename a class and all of its pattern inheritance dependent classes
Resource URLs	Records three URLs that provide access to the help system, Directed Web Access, and the System Management application.
Revalidate and Save	Lets you force revalidation in bulk of selected rule or data instances of a single type
Revalidate for References	Lets you perform limited revalidation to improve the completeness and accuracy of Referencing Rules feature
Rule Compare	Helps you compare different versions of rules.
Rulebase Compare	Identify differences in the rules present on two PRPC systems.
RuleSet Maintenance	Helps you copy RuleSets and RuleSet versions into new versions, merge several RuleSet versions into one version, move rules out of one RuleSet into another, or change a RuleSet version's number.
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Schema Change Tracking	List the cumulative changes to the PegaRULES database schema supporting this system.
Schema Report	Reports whether all the required database tables in the PRPC base schema are present in your system.
Search	Allows you to monitor and control the full-text search facilities
Search/Replace a String	Search for and replace a string wherever it appears in rules in the entire PegaRULES database.
Security Policies	Allows you to adjust the security options and CAPTCHA on the login and password-change screens.
Skim a RuleSet	Copy the highest (major or minor) version of existing rules to a higher version,
Static Assembler	Pre-assemble all the rules in an application, to avoid assembly-upon-first-use.
System Management Application	Allows you to monitor and control caches, agents, requestors, listeners, and other processing in your PRPC system.
System Name	Rename the current system name.
System Reports Application	These six reports support performance analysis of your system.
System Scanner	Evaluates your system’s current inventory of rules, code, and hotfixes, comparing them with the latest hotfix catalog from Pegasystems GCS.
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Uncommitted Hotfixes	Lists hotfixes that are not installed.
Update Manager	Connect to Pegasystems Global Customer Support to search for, download, and install hotfixes.
Upgrade Existing Applications	Provides access to various tools for upgrading applications, after the PRPC system upgrade is complete.
Usage Metrics	Reports and charts about recent system usage, as captured by the License Compliance facility.