Would 7.1.9 support IE8?

Client wants to stick to IE 8 after upgrade and we from the below article we know that 7.1.9 doesnot suppot IE8.

Is there any update from team that by any mode(quirks etc) 7.1.9 was made to work in IE 8.

ANSWER

Remember IE8 is built for HTML4 whereas Pega7 is on HTML5.

From our experience PRPC 7.1.9 + IE8 is not a production worthy combination.

As such IE8 is not supported by Microsoft; only IE11 is supported and you need atleast 7.1.9 + IE11 to go-live in production.

Instances of type Rule-Messages are not associated to any class after upgrade

We have more than 300+ instances of type Rule-Message in the application. We have upgraded from PRPC 6.3 SP 1 to Pega 7.2. After successful upgrade, we could not open the Rule-Message rules in Pega 7.2. When we tried to Revalidate and Save of all Rule-Message type rules , we see bad status (fail). 

ANSWER

We found an OOTB activity which resolves our issue and all our instances of Rule-Message types are now working as expected. The activity is Pega-Landing-System-Upgrade.pzUpgradeRuleMessages

Upgrade IAC 6.2 in PEGA Platform 6.2 to PEGA Platform 7.2.1

What is the best approach for upgrading IAC 6.2 in PEGA Platform 6.2 to PEGA Platform 7.2.1. Can anyone who has prior experience help us in providing better understanding.

ANSWER

Pega 7.2 comes with its own version of IAC. Pega 7 version of prgateway archive has to be redeployed and the gadgets (and the related javascript/html files ) have to be regnerated. You need to change prconfig.xml which may need redeployment of prweb archive as well

Can you know programatically from which version of Pega it has been upgraded to Pega 7

In one of our module usecase, we need to determine from which lower version of Pega it has been upgraded to Pega 7. We know which version but we donot want to harcode, it should be found out dynamically.

Is there any column/setting that can be referred after the environment is upgraded to Pega 7?

ANSWER

PR_DATA_ADMIN_PRODUCT table contains the information about the version which is upgraded from. You can use DATA_ADMIN_PRODUCT class to get the information dynamically

Cannot find datasources after deploying the WAR

We have an issue in starting the pega 7 application post deploying the WAR. The errors says

While generating DDL for Pega7.2, i am unable to see rules schema in the system generated DDL file.

 am upgrading my 6.1 SP2 application to Pega 7.2. As per our company policy, i cant use UI tool to update DB.

The DDL has to be generated and our DBA review the standards before executing this in our DB. When performing this, i see only my data schema name in the DDL. no where in the .sql file i see rules schema. Can someone help me on this?

How to resume upgrade assistant (PRPC_Setup.jar) from previous point

I am running upgrade assistant (PRPC_Setup.jar) file from local machine using command prompt after passing DB connection details at step 8 and START.

It went well for 7 hours and then failed at _importPreUpgrade step. I ran again prpc_setup.jar but it started from begining.

ANSWER

Which version are you upgrading to?. If you are using Pega 7.2.1 then setup.jar file will automatically resumes the upgrade from where it is failed.