APM Release Notes for the Fourth Quarter of 2018 | Predix APM

Alerts

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
In your current tenant, you can now view the General Visibility alerts of a shared asset that belongs to the shared tenant. In addition, you can also add notes and evidences to the alert.	F37660 F37337
Now, when you update and save an analysis for an alert, the analysis chart is attached as an evidence in the Evidence section of the alert.	F34562
You can now view the default analysis chart for multiple SmartSignal Alerts simultaneously. To facilitate this enhancement, the View Default Analysis Chart option has been added to the Bulk Actions drop-down list box.	F34240

Limitations

Even though you have access to assets and enterprises of another tenant, for the alerts to appear in the inbox and grid view, you must have access to at least one asset of the same tenant to which you belong.
The Events section in the Asset Instance page does not display alerts that belong to another tenant.
At a time, you should not access alerts from more than five tenants. Doing so may degrade the performance of the GE Digital APM application.
When a user updates an alert that belongs to another tenant, you will not receive any email notification about the change even though you have subscribed to the alert.

Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module.

Table 2. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
SmartSignal supports configuration of the shape, color, row position, and rendering priority for all the static and dynamic and rule event markers.	F38717
You can now view inactive SmartSignal Analytic models in the Tag Browser so that the user can view the inactive tags in a model and plot them on the charts.	F38546
You can now display positive and negative thresholds on SmartSignal residual charts to enable you to view the thresholds that have been exceeded when the tag rules are triggered on a SmartSignal Analytic tag.	F38197
The following enhancements have been made: Support up to 100 tags in the Data Grid chart. This may cause performance issues in the Browser so it is recommended that users do not plot any other charts on the card with the Data Grid that contains more than 40 tags. Added tag details to plotted tags in Alert View Template view for SmartSignal charts. Added the ability to switch between Source Tags and Tag Alias for SmartSignal charts. This allows the different user persona to view the tags in the mode that they recognize. Added the ability to view additional tag information on the SmartSignal charts. This includes the alias of the tag in parenthesis, the source tag name, and the tag description (if available).	F38070
You can now view all the templates created on the shared asset in the current tenant, and view any templates created on the shared assets by the shared to tenant. You can also view all public templates created on the shared asset, but you cannot modify it.	F36995
To enhance usability, you can now associate an Analysis template, including SmartSignal charts, to an Asset classification.	F36078
You can now use SmartSignal Analytics to monitor assets and to create a default analysis template that visualizes the SmartSignal Analytics tags associated with the asset. You can now visualize the assets using the same template for both Asset instances and Asset classifications.	F36077
To group data events and to visualize them in Bar chart form, you can now plot data in an analysis as a Bar chart using the Event Based Analysis templates.	F36075
To enhance usability, you can now search for and navigate to a specific enterprise, site, segment, or asset in the Context Browser. When selecting an item returned from the Context Browser, this is used to set the context of the Context Browser in Analysis.	F36074
To enhance usability, in the New Time Series Analysis page, you can now select two data points on the chart and view the values of all the tags on the chart for the selected time stamps, as well as the delta between the values of the tags for the selected time stamps in both absolute and percentages.	F36073
The following enhancements have been made: Enabled the direction arrow in Polar charts to display the direction of change. Enabled you to view the tag aliases in AVT flow to allow you to view the tags in their preferred form. Scale the axis on the time series charts to accommodate the thresholds on the charts. Allow you to select line style and line color for tag thresholds and save them to the template. Sort the advanced search results in alphabetical order to allow you to find the tags of interest easily. Sort the template names in analysis in alphabetical order to allow you to find the templates easily. Enhanced tick markers on charts to ensure that each tick has a unique value when you zoom into charts.	F34719
You can now view assets from another tenant that have been shared with the current tenant. For the assets, you can now create templates for these assets, plot tags based on these assets, and save the templates.	F34712
You can now view the default analysis for multiple SmartSignal alerts in a single analysis view across one or more assets.	F33717
To enhance usability, on the time series chart you can highlight a section of data points on the y-axis and have the data points in the selected time range reflected on all the other charts in the card.	F33666
You can now save the current analysis state as an evidence to an alert or case. You can now get back to this state of the analysis from the Alert or Case, modify it, update it, and save it again to the Alert or Case by overwriting the existing evidence or save it as a new evidence.	F33488
You can now set the range of the axis for a chart. This allows you to focus on the range of values that is most relevant for the analysis. This is available for Time Series charts, X-Y charts, and Polar charts.	F33460
You can now view the value of tags across the occurrences of an event in Event Based Analysis as a time series chart. This allows you to visualize the change on the selected tags across the various occurrences of the event to identify potential degradation of the asset over time.	F24485

Table 3. Known Issues
Description	Tracking ID
When you delete tags on a time series chart after you have plotted pin markers, the deleted tags appear in the marker data table. The workaround for this is to delete the tags, and then set the pins on the charts.	DE95436
When you make changes to the time series chart in multi y-axis mode, and you cancel out of it, then the changes do not get applied and are not visible in chart settings. The workaround for this is to create the template for an ad hoc view. Or, save the template, and make your changes for an existing template.	DE93811

Analytics

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 4. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
To enhance the performance during orchestration deployment, Application Analytics now caches data between orchestration steps.	F37992
To enhance the usability in accessing relevant deployments, you can now: Filter the deployment results using the deployment name or Analytic Template name in the keyword search. Search and retrieve related deployments by assets or entity ID. If the asset ID matches one or more of the filter criteria defined in an asset filter that was used in deployments, then all related deployments are listed for that asset ID.	F36287
To enhance the modifications to orchestration deployments, you can now define overrides for asset applicability at the input level during deployment. Note: This is not available for all runtimes.	F36279
To enhance the usability in the deployment creation and modification process, in the I/O Mapping step during deployment, you can now expand and collapse the ASSET(S) and Data Flow panes. Additionally, you can now: Access tags and attributes at the asset level. Map tags and attributes that are not common to all assets. Access the list of steps and iterations as a tree view in the Data Flow pane.	F36275 F36274
To enhance the I/O Mapping step during deployment, you can now configure an Analytic Template to allow mapping inputs to aggregate tags or multiple assets. This also provides the ability to write back to tags defined at any asset hierarchy level. Note: This feature is limited to the Spark runtime.	F36259 F18099
To enhance the asset applicability during deployment, you can now configure asset filters with Custom Attributes from non-asset entities. Note: This enhancement is limited to AIR and SOAR runtimes only.	F33365
To enhance the retrieval of inputs and storage of outputs during deployments, you can now connect to the following data stores: GE Digital APM Time Series GE Digital APM Asset Attributes Blob Store	F26075
To enhance the usability, you can now define data points for analytic inputs during analytic or orchestration deployment.	F26069
To enhance the ability to configure the Analytic Template, you can now make constants optional in the Analytic Template definition.	F17879
To enhance configuration in the Analytic Template, you can now define the unit of measure conversion for an analytic input or output. You can then pass that conversion formula to the respective runtime during deployment.	F10674
To enhance the ability to assign and control Analytics access permissions, you can now define permission sets using multiple features and permissions instead of one large permission set.	F2568
To enhance deployment modifications, you can now modify the version of the Analytic Template in deployment. If the Analytic Template has multiple versions of the analytic artifact uploaded to the catalog, the user can select which version to apply during deployment.	US231988
To enhance usability in the Analytic Template creation process, you can now see a customized form with only relevant fields and boxes specific to the selected runtime. Other options not relevant to the runtime are hidden.	US112770

Table 5. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when using the .csv file, the Format Value column did not appear and you could only define values for the Mapping Value Type field in the Analytics Templates page. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can use the .csv upload template to define values for the Data Format field as expected.	DE78361
Previously, after tenant creation, the default asset filters and filter field data were unavailable for the new tenant that was set up in QA2 environment. This issue has been resolved.	DE63501
Previously, an Analytic Template failed to deploy or run if the Sampling Interval for interpolated data was set to `0 minutes` or `0 seconds` even though the deployment was saved. This issue has been resolved.	DE62748
Previously, for analytics that were deployed and executed in the Predix Analytic runtime, if you redeployed the analytics with a newer version of that Analytic Template that had been uploaded to the catalog, the deployment failed, the deployment status was set to `Not Deployed`, and the following error occurred: `invalid service task name <task id>`. This issue has been resolved. Now, if you redeploy a previously executed analytic with a newer version of the Analytic Template that had been uploaded to the catalog, the Deployment completes as expected.	DE62740

Table 6. Known Issues
Description	Tracking ID
If a deployment uses more than 1000 assets but does not have all outputs explicitly mapped, then the error `ConcurrentModificationException` occurs and the deployment fails. If you notice this error, make sure to map all outputs before scheduling the deployment.	DE97332
If you make modifications to an Analytic Template configuration after it has already been used in a deployment, the deployment status in the Deployments page is expected to display `Updates Not Deployed`. Sometimes, the status does not automatically refresh. If you notice this behavior, simply refresh the page for the status to display correctly.	DE95790
Only on dedicated tenants, administrators cannot access the audit logs for Analytics using the Audit Log Management page. Administrators should contact support to access these logs via the backend. This is not an issue on shared tenants.	DE94501
Sometimes, even though there are no current deployments associated with the version of the analytic templates that you want to delete, an error occurs indicating that you must first delete any associated deployments before you can delete the version of the analytic artifact in the template.	DE77551

Limitations

Application Analytics does not support cross-tenancy; therefore, you will not be able to access assets from a different tenant.

APM Connect

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Important: To prevent processing failures, you must upgrade your on-premises, client-side jobs within two months of a GE Digital APM release to the most current version of the APM Connect client jobs. The current versions of the jobs are UDLP V2.4.0 and V2.5.0 or V2.5.1. For additional information, see UDLP Versions.

To view the release notes for versions released prior to Q3 2018, see https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/meridium/ReleaseNotes/APMConnect/APMConnect.htm.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
APM Connect Data Loader information is now located in the APM Connect section of the documentation.	US308212

Asset Hierarchy

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 8. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
To resolve issues that resulted from a recent modification to the Asset Hierarchy, the Asset Hierarchy has been reverted to match the appearance and functionality that was available in the Q2 2018 release. Modules and features that use the Context Browser are unaffected.	DE93271 DE93078 DE92695 DE92580

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 9. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Asset Hierarchy, in search results, the full hierarchy path was not always displayed. This issue has been resolved.	US297538

Asset

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 10. Known Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Select and Cancel are not visible upon resize of the browser page to a smaller size.	DE96140
The GET call from /sites is returning all the attributes, including the deleted ones, because of the cache.	DE94480
When you pass anything other than the allowed parent entity CCOM Class, the task status fails.	DE83773
You are unable to ingest a tag with tagType as computed or sensor.	DE76027
If a network is part of a sub-network, then it is not searchable.	DE75564
The Reserved Attributes Advanced search is not working when system has large volumes of reserved attributes.	DE75378
[Unified App]- You are intermittently unable to see ingestion logs in IE (in the unified tenant).	DE73709
An internal server error displays if the user sends a request with a Malformed URL.	DE68896
A newly created alert (count) is not seen immediately without refreshing the page; the Date picker is not reflecting the current time.	DE61811
The Timestamp is incorrect if the time zone in the user preferences is set to UTC + 14(Kiritimati).	DE57601
Associate/Disassociate actions are logged as Create/Delete in the Audit Logs.	DE44416
The Asset page does not load properly and a console error displays when Tags are from Site or Segment.	DE36446

Table 11. Limitations
Description	Tracking ID
The asset hierarchy (context browser) component has a limitation of 1000 assets for the enterprise level, and 250 assets for each subsequent level. If your asset hierarchy contains more than the allotted number of assets, depending upon the level, only the first 1000 assets for the enterprise level, or the first 250 assets for subsequent levels will appear in the asset hierarchy (context browser).	N/A

Table 12. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
The Get tags for query (q=monitoredEntityUri->parent→type) does not work.	DE74499

Cases

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 13. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
You can now share a report of a claimed case that belongs to the same tenant through an email.	F40658
Now, when you update and save an analysis for a case, the analysis chart is attached as an evidence in the Evidence section of the case.	F38432
In your current tenant, you can now edit the selected fields of General Visibility cases of a shared asset that belongs to a shared tenant.	F37330
In your current tenant, you can now view the General Visibility cases of a shared asset that belongs to the shared tenant.	F37329

Table 14. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Cases grid, the show or hide columns selection was not persistent. This issue has been resolved.	DE91299
Previously, if the time zone in the My Preferences page was set to Site Local, and if you attempted to access cases in grid view, no results appeared even though cases existed. This issue has been resolved.	DE89864
Previously, when a case was created for a site for which you did not have access permission, you still received an email notification. This issue has been resolved.	DE84212
Previously, you could not add a note to an existing case. This issue has been resolved.	DE84170
Previously, when you attempted to create a PDF report of cases, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.	DE82042
Previously, while creating a case, you could select an asset in the Create a Case window only if you had access to All Resources. This issue has been resolved.	DE81727
Previously, when you attempted to access a case of an asset that belonged to another tenant, it failed to load intermittently even though you had access to the asset. This issue has been resolved.	DE78709

Table 15. Known Issues
Description	Tracking ID
If cross-tenant sharing is enabled, when you generate a PDF report from the Cases grid view in which the columns are sorted, the columns other than the Created On column do not appear as per the sorting in the PDF file.	DE96102
If you generate a PDF report for more than 50 cases and download the report, the cases information is distributed and appears in two PDF files instead of one.	DE96100
When you attempt to select a Closure Code or Status that is not configured for a case that belongs to another tenant, an error occurs.	DE96086
If the cross-tenant sharing is enabled, and when you export cases to a CSV file, the export process takes longer than expected.	DE95117
While creating a case, in the Select an asset window, you can even select the tenant to which the asset belongs.	DE94712
If the name of a user is updated, and when the user adds a note and evidence to a case that belongs to another tenant, the old name appears instead of the updated name in the Notes and Evidence sections.	DE94606
You can assign a case to an Administrator who does not have permission to access Cases.	DE94443
You cannot link an alert to a case that belongs to another tenant.	DE94363

Limitations

Even though you have access to assets and enterprises of another tenant, for the cases to appear in the inbox and grid view, you must have access to at least one asset of the same tenant to which you belong.
The Events section in the Asset Instance page does not display cases that belong to another tenant.
At a time, you should not access cases from more than five tenants. Doing so may degrade the performance of the GE Digital APM application.
When a user updates a case that belongs to another tenant, you will not receive any email notification about the change even though you have subscribed to the case.

Cross-Tenant Sharing

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 16. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
In your current tenant, you can now view the General Visibility alerts of a shared asset that belongs to the shared tenant. In addition, you can also add notes and evidences to the alert.	F37660 F37337
In your current tenant, you can now edit the selected fields of General Visibility cases of a shared asset that belongs to a shared tenant.	F37330
In your current tenant, you can now view the General Visibility cases of a shared asset that belongs to the shared tenant.	F37329
You can now access assets from multiple tenants in a single URL: Grant view access to one or more top-level enterprises in your tenancy to a tenant administrator in another tenancy. Revoke access granted to another administrator. View an access list of one or more top-level enterprises granted from a tenant administrator in another tenancy.	F33730
You can now activate cross-tenant sharing.	F33730
You can now access cross-tenant instances, analysis, and dashboards.	F33730

Table 17. Limitations
Description	Tracking ID
When you grant or revoke access to assets within your own tenant, it can take up to 30 minutes before the change takes effect.	N/A
When you select Grants Given or Grants Received, the page does not always display the table underneath the header. If this occurs, refresh the page to view the table.	DE96620

Data Loaders - UDLP V2.5.0

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 18. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The APM Connect Data Loader information is now located in the APM Connect section of the documentation.	US308212

Table 19. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
The automatic data loader failed and issued the error message, `FATAL: sorry, too many clients already`.	DE92641

Family Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 20. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
To improve performance, while modifying the ID Template for a family, you cannot update the Record IDs of the existing records. However, the Record IDs for all the new records that you create for the family are generated using the modified ID Template.	US298682

Family Policies

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 21. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you executed a policy that contained a Create Relationship node and a Create Entity node configured to create multiple records, the subsequent relationships were not created after the creation of the relationship between the first combination of records. This issue occurred if you specified one of the following inputs for the Create Relationship node: Duplicate predecessor entity keys and the output of the Create Entity node as the successor entity key. The collection output of a Create Entity node as the predecessor or successor entity key. This issue has been resolved.	DE94996 DE94795
Previously, if a policy contained a Math node with a variadic function, and the variables of the variadic function represented the columns of a collection, the validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.	DE94085
Previously, when you attempted to access a policy containing a large number of nodes, one of the following issues occurred: The policy took a long time to load. The policy did not load. This issue has been resolved.	DE93538
Previously, if you mapped the time stamp output of a node to an input field of a successor node, and then executed the policy, in the Execution Details window for the successor node, the time stamp appeared in the time zone specified for your GE Digital APM user account instead of the policy time zone. This issue has been resolved.	DE91644
Previously, if you executed a policy containing a Create Alert node, the following issues occurred even though the policy was successfully executed: The execution result did not appear in the Execution Details window for the Create Alert node. The execution summary of the policy indicated that the policy was successfully executed but did not trigger any actions. These issues have been resolved.	DE90675

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 22. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you had specified a time zone other than Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for a policy with a Predix Time Series node, and then executed the policy, the time stamp values provided by the Predix Time Series node to the successor nodes were offset by the time difference between UTC and the policy time zone. This issue has been resolved.	DE86461

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 23. Enhancements and New Features
Note	Tracking ID
The Asset UUID field in the Properties window for the Create Alert and Query Alerts nodes has been renamed Asset Unique ID.	DE90491 DE90280

Table 24. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you did not update the memory cache after creating or deleting a family policy, the following issues occurred: The newly created policy was not executed for the associated trigger. The deleted policy was executed for the associated trigger. These issues have been resolved.	DE91303
Previously, if you executed a policy that was configured to perform an action on a recently added, modified, or deleted family or family field, the execution failed even though you could successfully validate the policy. This issue has been resolved.	DE91301
Previously, in the Properties window, if you attempted to map a column of a query result to an input field, the drop-down list box to specify the column of the query result did not appear for the following nodes: Create Relationship Delete Entity Delete Relationship Edit Entity R Script This issue has been resolved.	DE90835
Previously, in the Properties window for the Create Alert node, if you mapped the value in the Unique ID box of an Equipment or a Functional Location record to the Asset UUID box, and then executed the policy, the Create Alert node did not create any alerts. This issue has been resolved.	DE90491
Previously, in the Properties window for the Query Alerts node, if you mapped the value in the Unique ID box of an Equipment or a Functional Location record to the Asset UUID box, and then executed the policy, the Query Alerts node did not retrieve any alerts. This issue has been resolved.	DE90280
Previously, in the Properties window for the Create Relationship node, if you specified duplicate predecessor or successor entity keys to create multiple one-to-one relationships, and then validated or executed the policy, a validation error occurred for the node. This issue has been resolved.	DE89330

Release Date: October 12, 2018

Table 25. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Properties window, if you attempted to map a column of a query result to an input field, the drop-down list box to specify the column of the query result did not appear for the following nodes: Create Relationship Delete Entity Delete Relationship Edit Entity R Script This issue has been resolved.	DE90835

Foundation

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 26. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in Internet Explorer, when navigating in GE Digital APM, some pages did not load correctly. This issue has been resolved.	DE94031
Previously, in Internet Explorer, when navigating in GE Digital APM, some pages did not load correctly. This issue has been resolved.	DE94031

GE Dashboards

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module.

Table 27. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
To enhance usability, you can now view assets that have been shared with you from another tenant. You can now: Access all dashboards created on the shared assets and the source tenant. Create dashboards in assets that have been shared. Create dashboards with widgets that access data on shared assets. Based on your user permissions, you can also: Modify dashboards created on the shared assets and the source tenant. View dashboards created on a local tenant on the source tenant. Note: The public dashboards are available across all tenants.	F36522 F36521
To enhance usability, you can now search for and navigate to a specific enterprise, site, segment, or asset in the Context Browser. When selecting one or more search results returned from the Context Browser, the results are selected as the context for the dashboard.	F33327

Generation Availability Analysis Wind (GAA Wind)

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 28. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
To support a new format in which to process the imported Events, in the Settings section, the Is New API format? box has been introduced. In the box, the No option is selected by default, indicating that the imported Events will be processed in the old format. You can, however, select the Yes option.	US302574
You can now modify multiple Events at once in the Sub Group Summary page. To facilitate this enhancement, the Bulk Edit button () has been introduced in the Events workspace. In addition, you can modify the Events individually in the Sub Group Summary page.	US295456 US295450 US295429
You can now perform the following tasks in the Events workspace in the Sub Group Summary page: Modify the count of Events that appear in the table in a given page. Sort the Events in ascending or descending order based on one or more columns. Clear the sorting in the columns. Display or hide the columns. Group the Events by one or more columns. Ungroup the Events by one or more columns. Filter the Events using the column headings, regular expressions, and column values. Clear all the filters.	US295416 US295409
You can no longer create a Performance Record if: The Events imported for the Sub Group, month, and year for which you want to create the Performance Record have a gap in time. or The percentage of the imported Events whose value in the IEC Event Type field is IU exceeds 2%.	US295322
Now, when you import Events, you are required to acknowledge that you understand that you will overwrite the data in any existing Events for the selected dates. To facilitate this enhancement, the following check box has been introduced in the Import Event window: I understand that by clicking 'Start Import' I will overwrite any existing event data for these dates.	US295318

HMI

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 29. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can manually bind a mimic field to any variable in the asset model by using its data source tag ID.	US289108

Table 30. Known Issues
The following issues are unresolved in this release.
Description	Tracking ID
The Alarm Microservice caches Asset Model information for a tenant when it receives an alarm for that tenant for the first time from the Event Hub. Afterwards, an Asset Model update check is performed every two hours. During these checks, the Alarm Microservice is only informed of Asset Model modifications done through the file-based Asset Ingestion process.	N/A

Life Cycle Cost Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 31. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
To enhance accuracy in the Cost Data grid, when creating a new Resource for or adding an existing Resource to a Cost Element, the values in the Year <Number> columns (after the Year 0 column) now reflect estimations based on inflation. The escalated inflation values in the Year <Number> columns are based on the Annual Escalation Rate field in the Definitions section.	US256920

Maximo

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

To view the release notes for versions released prior to Q3 2018, see https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/meridium/ReleaseNotes/APMConnect/APMConnect.htm.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 32. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, the Notification Adapter sent data to the Maximo system with incorrect time stamps. This issue has been resolved. Now, the adapter sends data with the correct time stamp format: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSSXXX	DE89438

Policy Designer

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 33. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you executed a policy that contained a Create Relationship node and a Create Entity node configured to create multiple records, the subsequent relationships were not created after the creation of the relationship between the first combination of records. This issue occurred if you specified one of the following inputs for the Create Relationship node: Duplicate predecessor entity keys and the output of the Create Entity node as the successor entity key. The collection output of a Create Entity node as the predecessor or successor entity key. This issue has been resolved.	DE94996 DE94795
Previously, if a policy contained a Math node with a variadic function, and the variables of the variadic function represented the columns of a collection, the validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.	DE94085
Previously, when you attempted to access a policy containing a large number of nodes, one of the following issues occurred: The policy took a long time to load. The policy did not load. This issue has been resolved.	DE93538
Previously, if you mapped the time stamp output of a node to an input field of a successor node, and then executed the policy, in the Execution Details window for the successor node, the time stamp appeared in the time zone specified for your GE Digital APM user account instead of the policy time zone. This issue has been resolved.	DE91644
Previously, if you executed a policy containing a Create Alert node, the following issues occurred even though the policy was successfully executed: The execution result did not appear in the Execution Details window for the Create Alert node. The execution summary of the policy indicated that the policy was successfully executed but did not trigger any actions. These issues have been resolved.	DE90675

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 34. Resolved Issues
Note	Tracking ID
Previously, if a policy was executed by a family-level rule or another GE Digital APM module multiple times within a short duration, the execution results for the Math and Text nodes were intermittently incorrect after the first execution. This issue has been resolved.	DE89726
Previously, if you had specified a time zone other than Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for a policy with a Predix Time Series node, and then executed the policy, the time stamp values provided by the Predix Time Series node to the successor nodes were offset by the time difference between UTC and the policy time zone. This issue has been resolved.	DE86461

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 35. Enhancements and New Features
Note	Tracking ID(s)
The Asset UUID field in the Properties window for the Create Alert and Query Alerts nodes has been renamed Asset Unique ID.	DE90491 DE90280

Table 36. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you executed a policy that was configured to perform an action on a recently added, modified, or deleted family or family field, the execution failed even though you could successfully validate the policy. This issue has been resolved.	DE91301
Previously, if you mapped the output of a Health Indicator node to a Comparison node, and then mapped the logical result of the Comparison node to an And or Or node, validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.	DE90937
Previously, in the Properties window, if you attempted to map a column of a query result to an input field, the drop-down list box to specify the column of the query result did not appear for the following nodes: Create Relationship Delete Entity Delete Relationship Edit Entity R Script This issue has been resolved.	DE90835
Previously, in the Properties window for the Create Alert node, if you mapped the value in the Unique ID box of an Equipment or a Functional Location record to the Asset UUID box, and then executed the policy, the Create Alert node did not create any alerts. This issue has been resolved.	DE90491
Previously, in the Properties window for the Query Alerts node, if you mapped the value in the Unique ID box of an Equipment or a Functional Location record to the Asset UUID box, and then executed the policy, the Query Alerts node did not retrieve any alerts. This issue has been resolved.	DE90280
Previously, in the Properties window for the Create Relationship node, if you specified duplicate predecessor or successor entity keys to create multiple one-to-one relationships, and then validated or executed the policy, a validation error occurred for the node. This issue has been resolved.	DE89330

Release Date: October 12, 2018

Table 37. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Properties window, if you attempted to map a column of a query result to an input field, the drop-down list box to specify the column of the query result did not appear for the following nodes: Create Relationship Delete Entity Delete Relationship Edit Entity R Script This issue has been resolved.	DE90835
Previously, if you mapped the output of a Health Indicator node to a Comparison node, and then mapped the logical result of the Comparison node to an And or Or node, validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.	DE90785

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 38. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you calculated an RBI Criticality Analysis for a Heat Exchanger Bundle component, the following incorrect validations were performed: The values in the Operating Pressure and Operating Temperature fields, which were mapped from the shell side values on the RBI component were compared with the values in the Design Pressure and Design Temperature fields respectively, which were mapped from the channel side values from the component. The values in the Tube Operating Press Channel and Tube Operating Temp Channel fields were not compared with the design values. These issues have been resolved. Now, the following validations are performed: The values in the Operating Pressure and Operating Temperature fields that are mapped to the shell side values on the RBI Component are not compared with the design values. The values in the Tube Operating Press Channel and Tube Operating Temp Channel fields are compared with the values in the Design Pressure and Design Temperature fields respectively.	DE94266

Reliability Analytics

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 39. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
To enhance analysis accuracy, when viewing the details of a Scenario in System Reliability, the following Distribution Types can now be selected for TTF and TTR Distributions in the Risks section and the Show Risk/Mitigated Actions grid: Generalized Extreme Value Distribution Gumbel Distribution Triangular Distribution	US271178
To enhance analysis accuracy, when viewing the details of a Spare Application in a Spares Analysis, the following Distribution Types can now be selected in the Update Distribution section: Generalized Extreme Value Distribution Gumbel Distribution Triangular Distribution	US271175

Table 40. Resolved Issues The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when viewing the Reliability Distribution Analysis Report for an analysis for which a PM Optimization had been performed, the values entered for the Planned Cost and Unplanned Cost did not appear in the report. This issue has been resolved.	DE93870
Previously, when creating a new Risk record in System Reliability, if you saved the new Risk record multiple times, a Risk record was created each time that you selected the Save button (). This issue has been resolved.	DE92376

Reliability Centered Maintenance

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 41. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
To enhance usability and to allow you to incorporate related Failure Mode Asset ID values that make family records unique, you can now include the related Asset ID value of the Failure Mode family in the following worksheets of the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Data Loader: Failure Effects Worksheet Failure Modes Worksheet Recommendations Worksheet	DE94412

Table 42. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you tried to promote an RCM Analysis with multiple assets that contained recommendations, only the recommendations in the first asset were promoted. This issue has been resolved.	DE93758

Root Cause Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 43. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The values in the Alerts drop-down list box in the Add/Edit Tracking Items window are now populated with the Human Resource Record of the team members assigned to the specified RCA.	US254549

Table 44. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Create Verification pane, if you selected a team member in the Assigned To drop-down list box, that team member did not receive email notifications when the assigned task was due or overdue because the scheduled email job was not properly executed. This issue has been resolved.	US291622

Rounds Data Collection

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 45. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you entered a reading value that satisfied a condition of a checkpoint other than the first condition, successor conditional checkpoints did not appear as expected. This issue has been resolved.	DE96113
Previously, if you marked a Route done in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page while the workspace for that Route was open, when you navigated back to the workspace for that Route, the Route reappeared in the Due Items or Overdue Items section in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page. This issue has been resolved.	DE92165

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 46. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you collected data offline for all checkpoints on a Route and then closed the Route without marking the Route done, the progress bar in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page erroneously displayed a value less than 100%. Additionally, if you then marked the Route done, the Route History section in the workspace for the Route in the Rounds Designer module displayed a value that was one fewer than the actual number of readings taken. This issue has been resolved.	DE90935
Previously, when you marked a Route done while offline and then went online, the Route disappeared from the device, as expected, and readings were uploaded to the server; however, if you went back offline before the sync interval was met, the device storage was not updated, and the Route appeared in the Due section despite not being due. This issue has been resolved.	DE89050
Previously, on a small screen device, the percentage of the Route that was complete did not appear above the progress bar in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page when you were online. This issue has been resolved.	DE88164
Previously, on a mobile device, after you cleared Route data from local storage, Routes stored on your device resynchronized with the server, but, once the data was cleared, there was no indication that Routes were still synchronizing. As a result, if you went offline while the Routes were still synchronizing, you were unable to access any Routes that were not finished synchronizing. This issue has been resolved. Now, while Routes are synchronizing with the server, a spinner appears next to the Route names in the Due Items or Overdue Items section of the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, indicating that synchronization is in progress.	DE87172

Rounds Designer

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 47. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if you deleted a checkpoint that contained a successor conditional checkpoint, and then attempted to add the successor conditional checkpoint to a Route by selecting the Add button (), the conditional checkpoint did not appear in the Existing ML / LR window. This issue has been resolved.	DE93915

SAP and SAP PI

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

To view the release notes for versions released prior to Q3 2018, see https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/meridium/ReleaseNotes/APMConnect/APMConnect.htm.

SAP - Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 48. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
APM Connect now supports S/4 Hana 1809.	US299348
APM Connect now provides a new ABAP uninstall package that can be used with SAP spam version 0057 or later.	US297766

SmartSignal

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 49. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can now more easily modify source tag mapping in the SmartSignal Maintenance application. To facilitate this enhancement, a new window, Select APM Asset Tag, now appears, displaying a list of available asset tags, when you select the button to edit the source tag in the workspace for the selected analytic instance. Additionally, any changes you make to the source tag mapping are now reflected in the 2. I/O Mapping section of the workspace for the analytic deployment in the Analytics module.	F38493
To improve the process of modifying analytic templates of the SmartSignal type, the following enhancements have been made: You can now specify the order in which tags appear in the section for a selected tag type. To facilitate this enhancement, a new option, Reorder Tags, has been added to the Actions menu in the page for editing an analytic template. When you attempt to modify an analytic template version other than the latest version, a window now appears, displaying a button that you can select to access the latest version of the template. You can now review your changes and compare them to the current version of the template prior to publishing. To facilitate this enhancement, a new button, Review Changes, has been added to the Publish window. You can now compare analytic template versions in the page for editing an analytic template. To facilitate this enhancement, a new option, Compare Versions, has been added to the Actions menu. If you publish a new version of an analytic template for which there are no analytic instances, the version number is not updated.	F38076
To improve navigation among analytic instances, the following enhancements have been added: In the Analytic Instances pane in the SmartSignal Maintenance module, a search bar now appears in which you can search for the name of an analytic instance. In the Analytic Instances pane in the SmartSignal Maintenance module, you can now switch a toggle to view only the analytics that you have locked for editing. In the SmartSignal Deployments module, the names of analytic instances now appear as links that you can select to access the instance in the SmartSignal Maintenance module.	F35806
In the page for an analytic instance, you can now export training data to a .csv file. To facilitate this enhancement, a new option, Export Training Data to CSV, now appears in the Actions menu in the page for an analytic instance.	F35379
In the page displaying training data for a model, you can now view a chart that correlates data from two tags. The correlation chart displays data in an alternative view to the line chart that can help you notice outlier data that might not be easily detected in the line chart.	F35378
In training data charts, you can now choose to display only vectors that meet certain criteria so that you can more easily understand and take actions on the available training data. To facilitate this enhancement, the pane displaying a list of categories of data along with graphs depicting the percentage of data filtered per category is now accessed from the button while the list of available vectors is accessed from the button.	F33301
You can now duplicate an existing analytic template of the SmartSignal type.	F31868
You can now create an analytic template of the SmartSignal type natively in GE Digital APM.	F28784
You can now enter notes about the changes you made when you deploy an analytic instance. In addition, you can also view the history of actions taken for an analytic instance, including the following actions: Deploying or discarding changes Synchronizing an instance with a template version Activating or inactivating an instance Locking an instance for editing Importing an instance from a SmartSignal Classic transfer file To facilitate this enhancement, a new option, View Instance History, has been added to the Actions menu in the page for an analytic instance.	F28779

Release Date: November 21, 2018

Table 50. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
You can now import multiple analytic instances simultaneously when you import from SmartSignal Classic using a transfer file.	F39769

State Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Table 51. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
In the State Assignments window, the following enhancements have been made: In the Assignee column, the User ID for each Security User is displayed along with the first name and last name of the Security User. You can now search for a Security User using the first name, last name, or User ID of the Security User to assign the user to a state.	US287182

Tenant Preferences

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 52. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
You can now select which applications appear in the module navigation menu by selecting a module navigation profile. A new page, Module Navigation Menu, was added to Tenant Preferences to facilitate this change. The following navigation profiles are available: APM Predix Essentials Predix Essentials & APM Predix Essentials & OPM Predix Essentials, APM, & OPM	US304693

Thickness Monitoring

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 53. Resolved Issues
The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if the number format of the user account that is used to run the Meridium Device Service is different from the number format of the English (United States) culture, when you received thickness measurement data from a TM Datalogger, the measurement values were incorrect. This issue has been resolved.	DE92138

Time Series Data

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 54. Enhancements and New Features
Description	Tracking ID
To identify the raw count data, you can now use the new SmartSignal parameter, `Rawcount`.	F39269
You can now query tags from multiple tenants and plot an analysis templates in a Dashboard.	F33499
To enhance searchability in Time Series Data, the Predix Time Series service APIs `interpolated` and `last` can now be used to return aggregate data.	F32191
You can now specify the number of points to return from a specific time stamp.	F10550

Table 55. Resolved Issues
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when returning time series data via query, if the value in the Direction field was set to Backwards, the SmartSignal data service did not return the correct results.	DE94481
Previously, when using the Time Series Data Retrieval Service APIs to complete an interpolated operation, if you entered values in the Start Date and End Date fields, the data returned by the application incorrectly appeared on the Start Date.	N/A

Users and Permissions

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Table 56. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The User Administration pages have been rewritten using newer, faster web technologies, and redesigned using new Predix Design System’s components. This update provides improvements to overall usability, including, but not limited to: In the main list pages, pages for adding entities, and pages for modifying entities, the following new features have been added to data grids: You can now search, sort, and paginate on the data. You can access an action menu on a row by hovering over it and selecting the ellipses button that appears. You can select a row on the main list pages to modify that entity. You can choose how many items to display per page in a grid. Enhanced performance with loading and retrieving data. Improved form validation, both live while completing forms and upon form submission. When adding individual users via a configured identity provider, validation has been improved and more detailed messages appear to help you locate the correct user or create a new user. Consistent user experience when adding, editing, and deleting administrative entities (i.e. users, groups, permission sets). In addition to new features, the following major enhancements were made to the existing functionality: Improved feedback (e.g., loading indicators) to the user when asynchronous operations are happening in the application. Improvements to the Bulk Upload Users page: You can now download example CSV files to understand the required file format based on a specified identity source. After uploading a CSV file, the user interface provides the result, with details when possible, of the lookup for each user in the imported file. Validation has been improved and more detailed messages appear to assist you in the upload process. If any users were not able to be looked up, you can download a CSV of these users, and then proceed with the process of bulk assigning the successfully imported users to groups. In the Edit <Entity>, pages, changes are now made immediately when assigning or removing users, groups, or permission sets. In the Add <Entity> and Edit <Entity> forms, you can now multi-select entities. This allows you to add multiple users to a group or assign multiple groups to a user. When adding or editing a permission set, you can now select a permission category (e.g. Asset, Alerts, Cases) to select or clear all permissions in that category. You can now create entities from the Edit <Entity> pages. Upon completion, the page will return to where you were before creating the entity. In grids, you can now see the total number of entities the grids contain.	F32139 F37117 F40701 F35530 F35529 F35526
In the Edit Group page, you can new view and search for users that are members of that group.	F31724
In the Add <Entity> and Edit <Entity> pages, there is now no limit to the number of permission sets and asset combinations that you can add and remove.	F35524
After adding a user to the tenant, the Edit User page now appears, where you can assign permission sets and groups.	F35527
On actions relating to removing or deleting entities, a prompt now appears for you to confirm the action before it is performed.	F31723
When viewing Permission Sets to assign to a User or Group, you can now hover over the Features column to view a full list of permissions included in the permission set.	F31730

Table 57. Limitations
Description	Tracking ID
For tenants that share the same instance of UAA, if you disable a user in one tenant, that user is disabled in all tenants.	DE97323
To prevent potential issues, the functionality to delete a user is not currently available.	DE97322
When you try to assign a permission set and asset in either the Edit User or Edit Group pages, search for the User Admin or Ingestor Admin permission set and then try to select it, the permission set assignment sometimes cannot be assigned properly. If this occurs, deselect the permission set and then select it again. The Select an Asset button will disappear as expected, and the permission set can be assigned.	DE96724
When you select Users or Permission Sets, the page does not always display the table underneath the header. If this occurs, refresh the page to view the table.	DE96620