June 25, 2021

Alerts

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

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve usability when exporting alerts to a CSV file, the date values are now exported in Microsoft Excel's date format so that you can group or sort the date columns in Excel. To facilitate this enhancement, when exporting alerts to a CSV file, the time zone is separated from the date value and added under a new Timezone column. For example, the Receive Time date value in the grid now appears in two different columns Receive Time and Receive Time Timezone respectively in the CSV file.US489675
To improve usability when exporting alerts to a CSV file, you can now export alerts based on the More filters and Column filters criteria to the CSV file.
Below limitations apply when using the column filters. That is, the export operation ignores below filers when exporting to the CSV file.
Grid ColumnLimitation
  • Name
  • AssetId
  • Site Name
  • Owner
  • Asset Alias
  • Asset Customer name
  • Asset Name
  • Asset Parent
  • Does not contain operation is not supported
  • Equal and not equal operation are case sensitive
  • first occurrence
  • linked cases
  • Notes
  • Analytic Instance
  • Analysis links
Not Supported
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To enhance user experience, you can now see time series links, units, and tag descriptions information under SCAN GROUP DATA of alert notifications.US480936
Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if the name of an analytic template was changed, when an alert was generated, it was not associated with the correct template and as a result created a new template. This issue has been resolved. You can now find an alarmuuid attached in the alert service which helps you associate the alert with the correct template.US478336

Analysis

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

Table 3. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance functionality, while using the conditional based filters (CBF), you can now see the slider for a tag or tag expression to select the minimum and maximum values. To facilitate this enhancement, a new Enable numeric data for CBF check box has been added to the SmartSignal Marker Configuration section of the Tenant Preferences page.

When Enable numeric data for CBF is selected, while using the conditional filters functionality, you can see the slider for a tag or tag expression to select the minimum and maximum values. When Enable numeric data for CBF is not selected, while using the conditional filters functionality, the data for the string tags is displayed in a drop-down list box instead of a slider.

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Table 4. Known Issues and Limitations

The following known issues and limitations exist.

DescriptionTracking ID
Timeseries and Filter API's are failing for incorrect UOM configuration.DE161562

Analytics

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

Table 5. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve the usability, white spaces are now allowed in SmartSignal Analytic Template and Deployment Names. However, spaces in Leading and Trailing are ignored.
Note: The PAF runtime does not allow spaces in Analytic Template Names and Deployment Names.
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Analytics that were deployed to PAF before Q2 2019 must be redeployed to generate alerts.US493352

Assets

This topic provides product changes expected in the upcoming releases.

APM Asset Service Upgrade Notification

What does this mean to Asset Customers

GE Digital appreciates and values your business. As part of our efforts to continuously improve our product offerings, APM Asset Service is upgrading its S95 model to allow for automatic Tag ingestion from Edge devices(like OSM, OSI-PI, Historian) to APM cloud.

As a result of this upgrade, Asset Service API endpoints that allow creating and querying Tags will be deprecated and replaced with new set of API endpoints by March 2022 (subject to change to a future date).

Find below preliminary list of API endpoints that will be deprecated by March 2022 (subject to change to a future date). This communication is to identify customers who are invoking Asset Service endpoints for Tag create and Tag query.

API endpoints being deprecated in Q1 2022 – both /V1 and /V3
Note: All API’s with /tags in them will be deprecated within both V1 and V3 versions of the API.
What will happen to existing data?

Tag data will be migrated to the upgraded S95 model.

What other changes are expected?

Tag Type inheritance of attributes to Tag instances will not be supported, Tag ingestion format will change, there will be detailed communication sent in the near future to describe Full API deprecation list, changes to Tags UI in Asset microapp, Tag Ingestion, new API endpoints that allow for Querying Tags.

User Actions

If you are a user of APM Asset Service and are invoking API endpoints listed above for creating and querying Tag data, please reach out to the Predix Support, so that we can make sure to keep you informed with details about the upcoming changes

Cases

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

Table 6. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve usability when exporting cases to a CSV file, the date values are now exported in Microsoft Excel's date format so that you can group or sort the date columns in Excel. To facilitate this enhancement, when exporting cases to a CSV file, the time zone is separated from the date value and added under a new Timezone column. For example, the Receive Time date value in the grid now appears in two different columns Receive Time and Receive Time Timezone respectively in the CSV file.US480948
To improve usability when exporting cases to a CSV file, you can now export alerts based on the filter criteria to the CSV file. US480947

Email Settings

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

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
If you have used a custom value in the From field in the Email Settings page before May 13, 2021, you must verify the email address specified in the From field again.
Note: The default value in the From field is apm.unified@ge.com. This action is required only if you have used a different email address than the default email address.
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SmartSignal

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

Table 8. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now export your SmartSignal analytic instance, including all models, into a single XLSX file for offline review and editing. Then you can import it back to update tag and model tag attribute fields. F59910
You can follow a guided workflow in the SmartSignal Maintenance application when adding an analytic.F58935
The handling of analytic template name or rule name changes has been improved to prevent duplication of alerts.F56090
Table 9. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when using the SmartSignal Analytic Template editor to compare versions, the diagnostic rule expression was displayed in the wrong template version column. This issue has been resolved.DE159281
Previously, when using the SmartSignal Maintenance application to view tag correlation, the list of available tags included constant tags. This issue has been resolved.DE158778
Previously, when trying to export training data to a CSV file in the SmartSignal Maintenance application, you could experience a “Object reference not set to an instance” error. This issue has been resolved.DE158354
Previously, when trying to update tag mapping in the SmartSignal Maintenance application, you could only see the first APM tag name if there were multiple APM tags mapped to the same time series link. This issue has been resolved. DE158238
Previously, when trying to update a Source Tag in the SmartSignal Maintenance application, you could not save a blank cell to clear the current entry. This issue has been resolved.DE158136

System Requirements

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

Table 10. Obsolete Features

The following features are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported in GE Digital APM.US492701

Tenant Setup

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

Table 11. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
GE Digital APM tenant administrators can now disable the string data handling for Condition Based Filters (CBF) at the tenant level so that only numeric tags are considered when using the conditional filtering functionality. To facilitate this enhancement, a new Enable numeric data for CBF check box has been added to the SmartSignal Marker Configuration section of the Tenant Preferences page.

When Enable numeric data for CBF is selected, while using the conditional filters functionality, you can see the slider for a tag or tag expression to select the minimum and maximum values. When Enable numeric data for CBF is not selected, while using the conditional filters functionality, the data for the string tags is displayed in a drop-down list box instead of a slider.

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