V4.3.1.0.X Patch Release Notes

V4.3.1.0.9

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

APM Mobile Application

Table 1. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when the GIS capability of the mobile device was updated, the checkpoint count on the progress bar appearing in the Routes page for the GE Digital APM mobile application and the Rounds Data Collection was removed. This issue has been resolved. Now, the checkpoint values show the number of completed checks on a route. DE149990

General Dashboards

Table 2. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if the parent folder of a folder that contained the Dashboard or Homepage referenced catalog items was deleted, during an upgrade from V3.X.X.X.X to V4.3.1.0.X, the object does not exist message appeared. This issue has been resolved.
  • DE137968
  • DE137967

Rounds Data Collection

Table 3. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when the GIS capability of the mobile device was updated, the checkpoint count on the progress bar appearing in the Routes page for the GE Digital APM mobile application and the Rounds Data Collection was removed. This issue has been resolved. Now, the checkpoint values show the number of completed checks on a route. DE149990

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Table 4. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, after upgrading GE Digital APM V4.3.0.x.x to V4.3.1.x.x, when you attempted to log in to GE Digital APM using Single Sign-On (SSO) using the SHA-256 signing certificate, the login failed. This issue has been resolved.DE148272

V4.3.1.0.8

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

APM Mobile Application

Table 1. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in Rounds Data Collection module, the GIS data associated with the readings captured for a checkpoint were collected periodically. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can capture the GIS data more frequently and consistently. To use the updated GIS coordinate process, in the Default Device Settings workspace of the Rounds Designer module, set the value in the Maximum length of time (seconds) that is allowed to retrieve GIS box to a value greater than zero. DE146279

Rounds Data Collection

Table 2. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in Rounds Data Collection module, the GIS data associated with the readings captured for a checkpoint were collected periodically. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can capture the GIS data more frequently and consistently. To use the updated GIS coordinate process, in the Default Device Settings workspace of the Rounds Designer module, set the value in the Maximum length of time (seconds) that is allowed to retrieve GIS box to a value greater than zero. DE146279

SIS Management

Table 3. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in SIS management Protective Instrument Loop, the calculated results were not updated in Sensor Group and Final Element Group. This issue has been resolved. DE147197
Previously, if the Hazards Analysis license was not active in GE Digital APM, when you attempted to add a team member to the team associated with a Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Analysis, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE145656

V4.3.1.0.7

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

APM Connect

Table 1. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, data loader jobs were getting stuck because of insufficient privileges to access the Interface Log Record family. This issue has been resolved.DE139514

Asset Health Manager

Table 2. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you accessed the Health Indicator Source Trend page from Rounds Designer and modified the date range in the date filter, the date range changes were not applied. This issue has been resolved.DE141756

Installation

Table 3. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
DescriptionTracking ID
To improve security, you can now install the latest version of Redis on a Linux server. For more information on how to install Redis on a Linux server, refer to KBA 000036587.US423311

Root Cause Analysis

Table 4. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you attempted to access an RCA Analysis without an active PLA license, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE139843

SAP Adapters

Table 5. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
SAP Work History extraction interface has been enhanced to improve the performance of the synchronization process.DE142499

Security Manager

Table 6. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
DescriptionTracking ID
Security has been improved with advanced encryption in GE Digital APM.DE144383
Table 7. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if you removed multiple Security Users from a Microsoft Active Directory Group, and then ran the LDAP synchronization process, the Security Users were not dissociated from the corresponding Security Role in GE Digital APM. This issue has been resolved.DE143225

System Requirements

Table 8. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if user authentication using SSO was enabled for GE Digital APM, when you attempted to access GE Digital APM using Google Chrome version 80 or a higher version, an error message appeared, and the login failed. This issue has been resolved.DE141209

V4.3.1.0.6

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

APM Mobile Application

Table 1. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in Rounds Designer, when a set of checkpoints existed under a condition and one of the checkpoints was set to inactive, the subsequent checkpoints in the set did not appear in Rounds Data Collection or GE Digital APM mobile application. This issue has been resolved.US423023
Previously, the GE Digital APM mobile application did not recognize the camera on Android devices. This issue has been resolved.DE138628

Production Loss Analysis

Table 2. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when creating a plan template, in the Template Builder window, the values in the Duration drop-down list box appeared in English regardless of your culture settings. This issue has been resolved. Now, the values in the Duration drop-down list box appear in the language based on your culture settings.DE135321

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 581

Table 3. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, release rate calculation in RBI 581 Consequence Evaluation was based on the value in the Release Fluid Phase field of the related RBI 581 Risk Analysis. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Release Rate calculation is based on the Initial Fluid Phase field value in the RBI 581 Risk Analysis.

In addition, for a user with unit of measurement conversion set assigned, Release Fluid Phase in the RBI 581 Risk Analysis was populated incorrectly for fluids where:

  • Initial Fluid Phase field value in the RBI 581 Risk Analysis family was set to Liquid.
  • Ambient Fluid Phase field value in the RBI 581 Risk Analysis family was set to Gas.
  • BoilPt field value in the RBI 581 Risk Analysis family was set between 80 degree to 176 degree Fahrenheit range.
This issue has been resolved.
DE137703

Rounds Data Collection

Table 4. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in Rounds Designer, when a set of checkpoints existed under a condition and one of the checkpoints was set to inactive, the subsequent checkpoints in the set did not appear in Rounds Data Collection or GE Digital APM mobile application. This issue has been resolved.US423023

Rounds Designer

Table 5. Resolved IssuesThe following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in Rounds Designer, when a set of checkpoints existed under a condition and one of the checkpoints was set to inactive, the subsequent checkpoints in the set did not appear in Rounds Data Collection or GE Digital APM mobile application. This issue has been resolved.US423023

V4.3.1.0.5

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

Table 1. Asset Strategy Management
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when trying to import an asset from EAM, an error message appeared. This issue has been resolved. DE131487
Table 2. Rounds Data Collection
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when a Route was not loaded due to incorrect combination of size and structure of the route, an error message appeared in the android devices. In other cases, Route did not load and the GE Digital APM mobile application closed. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Route loads without any error.DE132813

V4.3.1.0.4

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

APM Connect

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when multiple jobs of the same type were running simultaneously, there could be a scheduling collision causing one job to get stuck in Staging Complete. This issue with resource contention has been resolved. DE128658
Previously, in APM 4.3.1, when running data loaders for non-English users (for example, German), numeric values for that culture were not being formatted correctly. This issue has been resolved.DE127334

Dataloader

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if the APM Relationship for a link is defined as a Foreign Key Relationship, the APM Family Data Loader did not support the ability to update a link from one record to another. This issue has been resolved. DE128737

Family Policies

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Math node, when you modified an equation containing an indexed variable name conflicting with an input variable name, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE128545

Policy Designer

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Math node, when you modified an equation containing an indexed variable name conflicting with an input variable name, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE128545

RBI 581

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when calculating the mitigated risk on the plan date for External Cracking Degradation Mechanism Evaluation on an RBI 581 Risk Analysis, the age calculation did not consider the target inspection date. As a result, the Total Damage Factor With Plan field (RBI Degradation Mechanisms) contained incorrect values for the following damage mechanisms:
  • 581-Austenitic Component Atmospheric Cracking
  • 581-Austenitic Component Cracking Under Insulation

This issue has been resolved.

DE128738

System Requirements

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if you accessed GE Digital APM using Chrome browser version 80 or higher, you may have experienced some issues. These issues have been resolved.DE128739

Thickness Monitoring

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the TM Dataloggers page, in the Send To and Receive From sections, the Thickness Measurement Locations (TMLs) were not sorted. This issue has been resolved. Now, the TMLs are sorted in alphanumerical order of the corresponding TML IDs.DE128020

Queries

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, older queries that included a date/time format without the time parameter would not return any data. This issue has been resolved.DE127899

V4.3.1.0.3

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

Asset Health Manager

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you implemented an action as a health indicator related to a risk, the health indicator did not appear in the Risks section of the Health Summary page. This issue has been resolved.DE125188

Asset Strategy Management

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features
DescriptionTracking ID
You can now implement an action as an EAM Maintenance Plan without sending an EAM Work Request. To facilitate this enhancement, sending an EAM Work Request is made optional.US386563
Table 2. Resolved Issues
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, while creating a general recommendation, if the update notification was disabled, multiple notifications were sent to the EAM system, and an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE126319

Asset Strategy Optimization

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now simultaneously run three Monte Carlo simulations for a tenant in each server.DE123166

Family Policies

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in a GE Digital APM Oracle schema, the scheduled job for policy execution history retention failed to delete the old records. This issue has been resolved.DE125249

General Dashboard

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you upgraded the GE Digital APM database from V3.x to V4.3.1.x, the upgrade failed during processing of dashboards and home pages, and an error message appeared. This issue has been resolved.
  • DE124721
  • DE124573

Policy Designer

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in a GE Digital APM Oracle schema, the scheduled job for policy execution history retention failed to delete the old records. This issue has been resolved.DE125249

Production Loss Analysis

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, using the Production Event data loader, you could not update the production event code under the related families. This issue has been resolved.DE123940

Reliability Analytics

Table 3. Enhancements and New Features
DescriptionTracking ID
You can now simultaneously run three Monte Carlo simulations for a tenant in each server.DE123166
Table 4. Resolved Issues
DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when accessing a System Reliability Analysis in certain instances, an error message appeared, and the analysis failed to open. This issue has been resolved.DE123983
Previously, when you generated a report for an analysis that contained legends, the legends did not appear on the corresponding charts that were displayed in the report. This issue has been resolved.DE122930

Root Cause Analysis

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when creating an Event timeline in an RCA Analysis, the Event Flag spanned out of the canvas area. This issue has been resolved. DE125904

Rounds Data Collection

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the GE Digital APM mobile application, individual readings were not captured intermittently. This issue has been resolved.DE124682
Previously, some of the GE Digital APM mobile application batches of readings collected in Rounds Data Collection to be sent to the GE Digital APM application were not stored in the APM database due to a non-recoverable error in one of the readings. This issue has been resolved. Now, the batch of readings that do not have an error will now be stored in the GE Digital APM database.DE123748

Thickness Monitoring

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the TM Admin Preferences page, if you configured the Equipment family to use the Has TML Group as the Subcomponent to Asset Relationship, and then performed a bulk calculation on TML Assets, it caused an infinite loop, and the application stopped responding. This issue has been resolved.DE125344

V4.3.1.0.2

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

Action Management

DescriptionTracking 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

Asset Strategy Management

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when importing actions from rounds, an error occurred when you tried to view the Route. This issue has been resolved.DE121075

Asset Strategy Optimization

DescriptionTracking 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

Family Policy

DescriptionTracking 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

Inspection Management

DescriptionTracking 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
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: V4.3.1.0.2 – Compliance Management – How to Configure API RBI Recommendations for Inspection Plan.
Note: If you had previously performed a similar KBA 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

Policy Designer

DescriptionTracking 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
Previously, the policy execution service processing the notifications was limited by the maximum number of concurrent WCF connections. This issue has been resolved. Now, the policy execution service is configured to allow up to 32768 concurrent WCF connections by default.DE120993

RBI 580

DescriptionTracking 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

RBI 581

DescriptionTracking 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

Rounds Data Collection

DescriptionTracking 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

Security Manager

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in case of database authentication, if you were a newly created user and you attempted to change the password, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE122020

Thickness Monitoring

Table 5. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking 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 6. Resolved Issues

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

DescriptionTracking 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

V4.3.1.0.1

This topic provides a list of product changes included in this patch.

Action Management

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Recommended Actions pane, if you quickly selected multiple Recommendations, the operations were incorrectly displayed. This issue has been resolved.DE119050

Asset Health Manager

DescriptionTracking 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

DescriptionTracking 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, an error occurred for a Risk matrix with a combination of a non-financial category with a protection level and a financial category. This issue has been resolved.DE118408

Asset Strategy Optimization

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, while loading a proposed risk, if the risk assessment was performed with a risk matrix that contained less than three categories, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE118410

Data Loaders

DescriptionTracking 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

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking 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 8. Resolved Issues

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

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when the job configured to delete old policy execution history records from the GE Digital APM database ran, 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.
US378820
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

Inspection Management

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in APM Now, the users set up in LDAP were unable to manage Inspection Plans. This issue occurred because the Security Role IDs were changed to make them unique across multiple tenants. This issue has been resolved.
You can now add the users to the following Security Groups that have been created with the same privileges of the corresponding Security Roles to enable them to manage Inspection Plans:
  • MI Compliance Administrator
  • MI Compliance Analyst
  • MI Inspection Plan Approver

For more information about how to assign the Security Groups to the users, refer to KBA: V4.3.1.0.1 – Compliance Management – How to configure Inspection Plans to be managed by security groups.

DE120718
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

Table 9. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking 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 10. Resolved Issues

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

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when the job configured to delete old policy execution history records from the GE Digital APM database ran, 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, 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

Table 11. Resolved Issues

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

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you added or changed the criteria for a query in the SQL workspace, the criteria did not appear in the Design workspace. This issue has been resolved.DE120488

R Scripts

DescriptionTracking 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

RBI 580

DescriptionTracking 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

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you calculated an RBI 581 Risk Analysis on a Storage Tank component that contained a toxic mixture, the calculation failed. This issue has been resolved.DE121326

Reliability Analytics

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in an 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

Root Cause Analysis

DescriptionTracking 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

Schedule Logs

Table 12. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now restart the jobs that are not run successfully but appear in the In Progress section. To facilitate this enhancement, a new button, Recover Jobs, has been added. This button appears when you select the In Progress tab.DE120857
Table 13. Resolved Issues

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

DescriptionTracking 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