V4.5.0.0.4 | APM Classic

Asset Criticality Analysis

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

Table 1. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when using an EAM configuration with multiple systems, sometimes an incorrect EAM system was configured causing a validation error. This has been resolved.	DE146801

APM Mobile Application

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

Table 2. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, the Android version of the GE Digital APM mobile application failed to authenticate when multiple redirects were required by the authentication provider. This issue has been resolved. Now, the authentication process has been updated to allow multiple redirects, which allows the process to complete.	DE149404

Calibration Management

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

Table 3. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you ran Calibration Data Model Upgrade Utility as part of the database upgrade activity, when processing large number of records, the utility stopped responding. In addition, system ran out of memory space during the upgrade. This issue has been resolved.	DE149197

eLog

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

Table 4. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, you could edit log entries that were already filled. This resulted in violations of some of the legal restrictions that need to be adhered to. To resolve this, the ability to edit log entries has been removed.	DE146448

Family Management

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

Table 5. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, if a field behavior had IF and ELSE statements, and both were set to False, an infinite loop was created, causing GE Digital APM to crash. This issue has been resolved.	DE145156
Previously, when you selected a custom format for a numeric field, you were allowed to enter any data in the field. This issue has been resolved. Now, GE Digital APM performs a validation to make sure that the entered data is valid.	DE145146

Family Policy

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

Table 6. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
If you inserted, modified or deleted a record using a policy running on a dedicated policy execution server, and the transaction triggered a family policy, the Baseline Rule node failed with an error. This issue has been resolved.	DE149684

Generation Availability Analysis

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

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

Description

Tracking ID

In an Event report, the events are now truncated based on the following time spans:


Scenario	Start Date in the report	End Date in the report
Event start date and end date are within the reporting month	Actual event start date	Actual event end date
Event start date is within the reporting month and end date is beyond the reporting month	Actual event start date	Last day of the reporting month
Event start date is within the reporting month and the end date is NULL	Actual event start date	Last day of the reporting month
Event start date is in the previous year and the end date is within the reporting month of the reporting year	First day of the reporting year	Actual event end date
Event start date is in the previous year and the end date is beyond the reporting month	First day of the reporting year	Last day of the reporting month
Event start date is in the previous year and the end date is NULL	First day of the reporting year	Last day of the reporting month

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You can now generate Performance Records and Reports in bulk for a GAA Unit record. Additionally, you can download Event and Performance Reports in bulk. To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes have been made:

The Bulk Generation button has been added to the GAA Overview page. This allows you to access the Bulk Generation window that contains the following sections:
- Generate: Allows you to generate Reports or Performance Records for the selected GAA Unit(s).
- Download: Allows you to download Event and Performance Reports to a single file or to multiple files.
The Bulk Generation Logs button has been added to the Bulk Generation page, that allows you to view the progress of the jobs.

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Table 8. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you generated Event or Performance report for a GAA Unit, if the primary regulatory organization was CEA, both CEA and NERC reports were generated. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Event or Performance reports are generated only for the primary regulatory organization.	US457946

Inspection Management

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

Table 9. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, you could not add a Team Member to an Inspection if the Team Member was not a GE Digital APM user. This issue has been resolved.	DE147140
Previously, when creating an Inspection Event record that has additional fields defined as required either through field behaviour or field level rules, and if the record is not new, an error occurred and the Inspection Event was not created. This issue has been resolved.	DE146581

Installation

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

Table 10. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
You can now upgrade Java 8 used in GE Digital APM to Java 11. Java 8 has reached End-of-Life (EOL) for public updates and Java 11 is supported by ActiveMQ and ElasticSearch. For more information on how to upgrade Java from V8 to V11, refer to KBA 000036926.	US456669

Metrics and Scorecards

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

Table 11. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, the following issues existed in Metrics and Scorecards: If there were multiple perspectives and objectives for a Scorecard in the <Scorecard Name> page, and you added multiple Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to an objective: The KPIs incorrectly appeared in the <Objective Name> section. Some KPIs intermittently appeared in other <Perspective Name> sections. The time stamp indicating the date and time when the scorecard was modified did not appear based on the time zone specified for your GE Digital APM user account. When you attempted to modify a KPI, the data in the <KPI Name> page took longer than expected to appear and there was no indication that the operation of loading the data was in progress. These issues have been resolved. Now, a spinner appears when the data in the <KPI Name> page is being loaded.	DE148424

OT Connect

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

Table 12. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
OT Connect now supports OSI PI Collectives using the OSI PI Adapter through AF SDK. Important: To use OSI PI Collectives, you must have a PI connection configured for the Collective, and the OT Source Hostname must be the host name of the primary member of the Collective.	DE141146
OT Connect Adapter now truncates the OT Source Tag Descriptions to 1024 characters. This allows the OT Connect Tags with more than 1024 characters description to be successfully Tag Synced.	DE147607
A new OT Connect Tag Sync Utility has been added to the OT Connect Adapter to assist with Tag Sync troubleshooting. For more information on the utility, refer to the Run OT Connect Tag Sync Utility topic.	DE146990
You can now run the OT Source Capability Utility or Tag Sync Utility without installing an adapter service. An archive containing the APM.OTConnect.Adapter.exe and required libraries are now delivered with the GE Digital APM distribution package. For more information, refer to the Run Portable OT Connect Capability and Tag Sync Utilities topic.	US443641
The OT Connect Tag Sync error logging has been improved.	DE146990
The OT Source password used for GE Historian and OSI PI Adapter is now encrypted.	DE147944
The performance of OT Connect when adding tags with a Tag Sync has been improved significantly.	DE149513

SIS Management

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

Table 13. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when you ran SIL Assessment Upgrade Utility as part of the database upgrade activity, the following issues occurred: The system ran out of memory when clearing the values in the Loop Diagram column in the Protective Instrument Loop table. Record creation failed when processing external SIL Assessments. Additional parsing errors appeared in the log. These issues have been resolved. Additional logging and error checks have been added.	DE146764

Thickness Monitoring

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

Table 14. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
Description	Tracking ID
Previously, when using Column Chooser from the Measurements section of the Analysis Overview workspace, you could add a field to the Display Fields section multiple times. Due to this, the data in the Measurement Table did not load. This issue has been resolved.	DE146972
Previously, in the TM Admin Preferences page, if you configured the Subcomponent to Asset preference of the Equipment or Functional Location family with the Has TML Group family, it could result in an infinite loop while performing Bulk Calculations causing the application to become unresponsive. This issue has been resolved.	DE147642