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

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

Asset Health Manager

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 13. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, while accessing Asset Health Manager on a slow network connection, if you quickly navigated away, and then attempted to access Asset Health Manager, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.	DE117877

Asset Strategy Management

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 14. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when importing actions from rounds, an error occurred when you tried to view the Route. This issue has been resolved.	DE121075

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 15. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, while implementing Actions as an EAM Maintenance Plan, incorrect URL was generated and added to the Recommendation Description field. This issue has been resolved.	DE119002
Previously, when you used a risk matrix with a combination of non-financial category with a protection level and a financial category, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.	DE118408

Asset Strategy Optimization

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 16. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, under certain conditions, if the simulation stopped while saving results back to ASM, you could not cancel the simulation. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can cancel the simulation at any point in the process.	DE122729
Previously, while accessing the grid view, some of the fields did not appear until the field values were changed back and forth. This issue has been resolved.	DE122728

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, while loading the proposed risk in Asset Strategy Optimization, if the risk assessment was done using a risk matrix with less than three categories, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.	DE118410

Cases

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 18. 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 19. 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 20. 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 21. 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 22. 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 23. 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 24. 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 25. 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 GE Digital APM 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

Generation Availability Analysis Wind (GAA Wind)

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 26. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the GAA Wind, there was a mapping logic defined based on the offline adapter tool in the GE Renewables Digital Wind Farm suite. This is no longer required, and this issue has been resolved. Now, the mapping between IEC type and NERC type happens based on the one-to-one mapping defined in the administrative section. In addition, for events with IU as the IEC type: If the duration of the IU event is less than 10 minutes, the event will be mapped to the NERC type of the next non-IU event. If the duration of the IU event is greater than or equal to 10 minutes, the NERC type will be blank.	DE119307

Inspection Management

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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 manage API RBI Recommendations in the Inspection Plan page for the asset. The Inspection Plan page of the Compliance Management module now supports viewing, managing, approving, and implementing API RBI Recommendations. In addition, the Inspection Plan Management page now supports managing Inspection plans with API RBI Recommendations in bulk. To facilitate this enhancement, you must follow the steps in KBA: https://digitalsupport.ge.com/communities/en_US/Article/V4-3-1-0-2-Compliance-Management-How-to-Configure-API-RBI-Recommendations-for-Inspection-Plan. Note: If you had previously performed the steps in a similar https://digitalsupport.ge.com/communities/en_US/Article/V4-3-0-7-8-Compliance-Management-How-to-Configure-API-RBI-Recommendations-for-Inspection-Plan for the V4.3.0.7.8 release, you must still perform the steps in the KBA for the V4.3.1.0.2 release and ensure the attached queries are imported.	US373707

Table 28. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, the Inspection Management Overview page was filtered based on the asset hierarchy context, despite providing the unit key in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This issue has been resolved. Now, the Inspection Management Overview page is filtered based on the unit key you provide.	US376669

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 29. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in the Inspection Management Overview page, the master-detail sheet associated with an Inspection family did not appear when the following conditions were met: You configured a family in the Event Configurations section in the Inspection Configuration page so that the family appeared in the module navigation menu. You configured the master-detail sheet for the related family. This issue has been resolved.	DE120247

Policy Designer

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 30. 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 31. 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 32. 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 GE Digital APM 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 33. 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

R Scripts

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 34. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if an R Script contained a large number of parameters, you could not access all the parameters in the Parameters pane because the pane did not contain a scroll bar. This issue has been resolved. Now, a vertical scroll bar has been added to enable you to move through the pane.	DE120272

Reliability Analytics

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 35. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in a Reliability Recommendation record, if you selected the Create Work Request check box, and then saved the record, the SAP Notification that was created did not contain the Equipment and Functional Location values associated with the record. This issue has been resolved.	DE119874

Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

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RBI 580

Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 36. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if an RBI Criticality Analysis contained a Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking (CI SCC) or Hydrogen Stress Cracking (HSC) - Hydrofluoric Acid Degradation Mechanism, the value in the output fields were incorrectly calculated. This issue has been resolved.	DE121801

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 37. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when calculating an RBI Criticality Analysis, the value in the Estimated Half Life field in the Criticality Ext. Corr. Deg. Mech. Eval. family was set incorrectly if you had defined UOM conversion set for any field used for the calculation of estimated half-life. This issue has been resolved.	DE119934

RBI 581

Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 38. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when the UOM conversion set was assigned to you, while calculating an RBI 581 Risk Analysis, the Risk Category field was calculated incorrectly. In addition, the output fields were calculated incorrectly for any of the following conditions: The component type was Storage Tank or Storage Tank Bottom. The analysis contained a Brittle Fracture damage mechanism evaluation. This issue has been resolved.	DE121779

Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 39. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you calculated an RBI 581 Risk Analysis on a Storage Tank component that had a toxic mixture, the calculation failed. This issue has been resolved.	DE121326

Root Cause Analysis

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 40. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, in an RCA Recommendation record, if you selected the Create Work Request check box, and then saved the record, the SAP Notification that was created did not contain the Equipment and Functional Location values associated with the record. This issue has been resolved.	DE119750

Rounds Data Collection

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 41. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
The APM Mobile application editing has been enhanced to ensure the route readings in the database are synchronized with the application server before removing the data from the device. Additional logging has been added to track the synchronization activity between the APM Mobile device and the APM Application server.	DE122634

Schedule Logs

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Release Date: November 8, 2019

Table 42. 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 43. 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

SmartSignal

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 44. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can now create tag groups in an analytic template.	F47846
You can now view alert density and analytic processing status in the alerts grid.	F46531
You can now navigate to an analytic deployment from the Analytic Instances pane in the SmartSignal Maintenance module.	F46215

Table 45. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, changes made to diagnostic chart markers did not appear as expected in the analysis view. This issue has been resolved.	DE120846

Thickness Monitoring

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 46. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
When performing bulk analysis from the Assets section of the Thickness Monitoring Overview page, you can now choose to analyze all assets or only the assets that require calculation.	US380458

Table 47. Resolved Issues
The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you calculated an asset corrosion analysis in Thickness Monitoring where the Maximum Allowable Working Pressure (MAWP) was calculated for the Thickness Measurement Locations, the following error was logged in the application log file even though the calculation of the MAWP was successful: `System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing` This issue has been resolved.	DE122427
Previously, when you performed the Minimum Thickness (T-Min) calculation for more than 400 thickness measurement locations from the T-Min Calculator workspace, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. Now, a pagination has been introduced to the T-Min Calculator workspace to load 100 thickness measurement locations per page.	DE121542

Time Series Data

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Release Date: December 13, 2019

Table 48. 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 49. 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 50. 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