Predix Essentials Release Notes for the Fourth Quarter of 2019 | Predix Essentials

Action Management

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 1. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you created a notification from a General Recommendation, the Work Request Reference field was not populated even if the Create EAM Notification? check box was selected. This issue has been resolved.	DE121169

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 2. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Recommended Actions pane, if you quickly selected multiple Recommendations, the operations were incorrectly displayed. This issue has been resolved.	DE119050

Advanced Visualization

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 3. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can now save the visualizations that you have created using Advanced Visualization and share it with others in the tenant. This will allow you to save both stand alone visualizations as well as dashboards created using these visualizations	F46516
You can now create visualizations using Advanced visualizations on Alerts , Cases , Asset and General Recommendations data as long as you have access to these features.	F46502
You can view Alerts , Cases , Asset and General Recommendations data models using Advanced Visualization. The data sources are automatically created for you.	F45629
You can now launch Advanced Visualization in APM and create visualizations using the new capabilities that have been added to the product	F44729

Table 4. Known Issues and Limitations
The following known issues and limitations exist.
Description	Tracking ID
Filters in the dashboards created using Advanced Visualization do not work when you use CNT.DST to aggregate the count for alerts, cases, and so on. This is much faster in terms of rendering data. The workaround is to use CNT to aggregate the data; however if the number of records is greater than 1M, then timeouts may occur.	DE124632
You can access a maximum of 1000 assets using a data source for assets.	N/A

Alerts

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 5. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The following enhancements have been made to the Alerts OData service: Added support for full table count Added support for the count distinct operation Added support for numeric aggregations (min, max, sum, and avg) Added support for basic aggregations using user permissions filters Added support for aggregation on navigation properties Exposed additional fields for Alerts data export	F48452
You can now link a case to an alert and access the linked cases in the associated Alert Details page.	F48175
You can now view the latest density values for Smart Signal alerts in the Alerts Details page using the grid view.	F46531
In an email notification for an alert, you can now view the time stamp based on the time zone set in the My Preferences page.	F46491
You can now view the Last Processed Time and Last Observed Time information for Smart Signal alerts, on the Alerts Details page and using the Alerts Grid View.	F44712
You can now access the analysis charts associated with the alerts using the Alert grid view. To facilitate this enhancement, a new column, Analysis Links, has been added to the Alert grid view.	F44711

Release Date: October 29, 2019

Table 6. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you generated a PDF report for an alert that contained SmartSignal charts, the report did not contain the charts. This issue has been resolved.	DE120541

Analysis

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The time taken to access a non-SmartSignal analysis template associated with an alert has been significantly reduced if it has been fetched before.	F48015
You can now view thresholds in SmartSignal cards in point mode.	F46550
You can now access the tag groups associated with SmartSignal Analytics in the Analysis view and plot them in the analysis charts.	F44772

Analytics

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 8. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The following are the Orchestration Scheduling Enhancements: Data request parameters can be set on per step basis. Data request parameters, such as Start Time, End Time, for Run Once, Offset before schedule, and Sample duration, which are set at orchestration level, apply to all steps by default. However, you can set the parameters on per step basis and override these parameters. In addition to the Historian mode, the following modes are available in the Time Series data: Math Sample and Hold Runtime supported for Predix Insights only.	US363606

Table 9. Obsolete Features
As of this release, the following items are no longer available.
Description	Tracking ID
CAF no longer supports deployment of analytics written in Python 2.X. The user interface change for CAF that disables creating analytics with Python 2.7 will be introduced in APM 2019 Q4 release. If you have a legacy code and must use an earlier version, you must make sure that the library versions in the config file point to the earlier versions. Python uses the new version by default, which may not be backward compatible. This may work if there are minimum conflicts from a single library. Note: Existing analytics that are deployed to PAF will continue to work, but new deployments need to use Python’s newer version 3.X when creating an analytic in CAF.	US363606

Asset

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 10. Known Issues and Limitations
The following known issues and limitations exist.
Description	Tracking ID
Reserved attributes for instances and tags are overwritten by default values, if no reserved attributes are specified in the re-ingestion file.	DE123372

Release Date: November 21, 2019

Table 11. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can sort and filter tags by tag attributes in the Tags section, and export the tags to a CSV file for a single Monitored Entity.	F46927
You can sort and filter attributes of an instance in the Attributes section, and you can export the attributes to a CSV file.	US367227
In the Search page, you can navigate back to the search results after you select one of the tags in the search results to review or edit.	US367227

Table 12. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
The Delete Asset Instance button remained disabled even after the Delete Reason box was populated. This issue has been resolved, To facilitate this fix, the user interface is now updated to guide the user to populate the Asset Name and Delete Reason boxes.	DE120700
Previously, creating a Tag Instance with special characters in the TimeSeries Link box did not display errors and the Tag Instance button remained disabled. This issue has been resolved.	DE96140

Cases

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 13. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
When you assign a case to a user, the user now receives an email that contains the link to the case.	F48376

Release Date: October 29, 2019

Table 14. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you generated a PDF report for a case that contained SmartSignal charts, the report did not contain the charts. This issue has been resolved.	DE121201

Release Date: October 21, 2019

Table 15. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can now add advanced filters to filter cases based on multiple parameters, save filters, and set them as favorites for quick access by adding it to the module navigation menu.	F46275

Table 16. Known Issues and Limitations
The following known issues and limitations exist.
Description	Tracking ID
The following baseline filter sets are not available in the Cases module navigation menu. However, they are available in the drop-down list box in the page header of a case details page or cases grid. My Cases Open Cases Awaiting Cases Closed Cases All Cases Note: This issue is not applicable to legacy Predix APM.	None
In the legacy Predix APM environment, if you apply a filter set to cases, the setting is persistent until you close the Cases module. When you access the Cases module again, the Unclaimed Cases filter set is selected by default.	None

Data Loaders

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 17. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you canceled a data loader job that was in progress, the job was intermittently locked and prevented other data loader jobs from running. This issue has been resolved.	DE121444

Family Policies

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 18. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you configured a Last, Min, or Max node to operate on the output collection from a Sub Policy node, and mapped the output of the Last, Min, or Max node to another node and saved the policy, when the policy was reloaded in the Design workspace, the mapping was lost. This issue has been resolved.	DE121181

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 19. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The performance while loading a policy in the Design workspace has been significantly improved. To facilitate this enhancement, the connections no longer connect directly to the nodes where the values appear on the design canvas when viewing the validation or execution results.	DE120166

Table 20. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when the job configured to delete old policy execution history records from the Predix Essentials database was run, the following issues intermittently occurred: The job timed out. The job locked the policy execution history table of the database due to which policies were not executed. These issues have been resolved. Now, each time the job runs, it deletes as many records as possible and may run multiple times to delete all old policy execution history records.	US378820
Previously, in the Properties window for a Predix Time Series node, if you specified values for both the Start Time and End Time fields, the End Time was not considered for retrieving the readings from the Time Series data source due to which a large number of readings were retrieved. This issue has been resolved.	DE120933
Previously, if the policy model contained a node that must not be executed if its output is not used by any successor node, and if you mapped the output of such a node to only a Case node, the node was not executed. This issue has been resolved.	DE120494

Policy Designer

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 21. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you updated the schedule settings for a policy with an existing schedule and saved the policy, the updated schedule settings were not applied. This issue has been resolved.	DE122328
Previously, if you configured a Last, Min, or Max node to operate on the output collection from a Sub Policy node, and mapped the output of the Last, Min, or Max node to another node and saved the policy, when the policy was reloaded in the Design workspace, the mapping was lost. This issue has been resolved.	DE121181

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 22. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The performance while loading a policy in the Design workspace has been significantly improved. To facilitate this enhancement, the connections no longer connect directly to the nodes where the values appear on the design canvas when viewing the validation or execution results.	DE120166

Table 23. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when the job configured to delete old policy execution history records from the Predix Essentials database was run, the following issues intermittently occurred: The job timed out. The job locked the policy execution history table of the database due to which policies were not executed. These issues have been resolved. Now, each time the job runs, it deletes as many records as possible and may run multiple times to delete all old policy execution history records.	US378820
Previously, in the Properties window for a Predix Time Series node, if you specified the values for both Start Time and End Time fields, the End Time was not considered for retrieving the readings from the Time Series data source due to which a large number of readings were retrieved. This issue has been resolved.	DE120933
Previously, if a policy contained a node that must not be executed if its output is not used by any successor node, and if you mapped the output of such a node to only a Case node, the node was not executed. This issue has been resolved.	DE120494

Queries

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 24. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you added or changed the criteria for a query from the SQL workspace, the criteria did not appear in the Design workspace. This issue has been resolved.	DE120488

Schedule Logs

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 25. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can manually recover failed jobs that appear in the In Progress section of the Scheduler log page. To facilitate this enhancement, a new button, Recover Jobs, has been added that appears when you select the In Progress tab.	DE120857

Table 26. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you scheduled jobs, some of the jobs were not successfully run and the jobs appeared in the In Progress section. This issue occurred because the application server was disconnected from GE Digital APM when the jobs were run. This issue has been resolved. Now, GE Digital APM automatically restarts the jobs when the application server is restored.	DE120857

Time Series Data

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 27. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can now access the Sample and Hold interpolation mode data using the Time Series Data Retrieval Service v4 and v5 APIs.	F48127

Table 28. Resolved Issues
*The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.*
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in a query, if you specified raw as the operation type and did not use the sampleCount field, the APM Time Series query service returned only one data point from Proficy Data Sources. This issue has been resolved. The service now returns all the data points between the specified date range.	DE122195

Release Date: November 1, 2019

Table 29. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you used the QueryDirection field in a query to retrieve data from a Proficy Data Source, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. Now, the APM Time Series query service ignores the QueryDirection field for any tags with a Proficy Data Source.	DE122223