PolicyCenter 10.0.3 Release Notes
Major issues and changes
This section contains issues and major changes that may affect your installation. For more information on new features and major changes, see New and Changed Guide.
Guidewire InsuranceSuite supports both Java 8 and Java 11 (ISPL-2586)
Guidewire InsuranceSuite now supports both Java 8 and Java 11. Set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to reference the Java version that you want to use. Note that InsuranceSuite and your application server must run on the same version of Java. For example, when running InsuranceSuite on Java 11, you must use an application server that also runs on Java 11. For information about supported releases, visit the Guidewire Community and search for knowledge article 1005, “Supported Software Components”.
Oracle 19c support added (ISPL-1728)
Guidewire InsuranceSuite now supports the Oracle 19c database. For information about supported releases, visit the Guidewire Community and search for knowledge article 1005, “Supported Software Components”. For background information about this change, visit the Guidewire Community and search for knowledge article 13621, “Guidewire Plans to Add Oracle Database 19c Support in the InsuranceSuite 9.0.8 and InsuranceSuite 10.0.3 Maintenance Releases”.
- For Java 8, the JDBC driver is ojdbc8-19.3.0.0.0.jar.
- For Java 11, the JDBC driver is ojdbc10-19.3.0.0.0.jar.
Chinese language resources are for demonstration purposes only
This release includes Chinese language resources in the base configuration. These resources are provided only for demonstration purposes, and are not supported for production use.
Generated reports on changes
The following are generated reports of changes between releases.
Guidewire also provides a report detailing certain differences between the current release and your prior release. This report describes changes in display keys, entities, typelists, and the Gosu API. To obtain your custom Upgrade Diff report, visit the Guidewire Community and search for knowledge article 7898, "How to find reports detailing differences between earlier and later releases of Guidewire core products".
Changes between releases 10.0.3 and 10.1.0
- Base resources
- To view a report of the changes to the base resources, click here.
- Base PCF files
- To view a report of the changes to the base PCF files, click here.
Improvements and resolved issues
Guidewire attempts to provide information for issues of primary importance to our customers. This list is not intended to be comprehensive.
PolicyCenter improvements and resolved issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| ISPC‑1168 | Fixed an issue where messages related to Contact were not safe-ordered. |
| ISPC‑1225 | Fixed an issue where vehicles added or removed in a policy change were not listed as difference in the Policy Review screen if the policy change was effective on the same day as the issued policy. |
| ISPC‑1226 | Added support for Spanish (Spain) in PolicyCenter Product Designer. Spanish (Spain) must be enabled in Guidewire PolicyCenter for this functionality to be available in Product Designer. |
| ISPC‑1229 | To support both Java 8 and Java 11, inside the productdesigner folder there are now subfolders containing java8 and java11 versions of Product Designer. |
| ISPC‑1238 | The tooltip on the Download JAR file on the Rate Books screen now displays the date in the current regional format. |
| ISPC‑1239 | When you click Generate JAR File on the Rate
Books screen, the status of the generated routines, 7 of 10
routines, is now localized for the current language. |
| ISPC‑1240 | When you click the Generate Jar file button on the
Rate Books screen, the initializing progress
bar is now localized for the current language. |
| ISPC‑1298 | Fixed a script error that caused the postprocessing step of Solr Batchload to fail when running on Linux. |
ContactManager improvements and resolved issues
|
ID |
Description |
|---|---|
| ISCM‑101 | Fixed an issue where an extension version number error no longer occurs during database upgrade. The version number was incremented in extensions.properties. |
| ISCM‑110 | Fixed an issue in the InboundFileBatchProcess
and OutboundFileBatchProcess batch processes so that an
IllegalArgumentException error no longer occurs. |
Platform improvements and resolved issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| ISPL‑1728 | Guidewire InsuranceSuite now supports Oracle 19c. For information about supported releases, visit the Guidewire Community and search for knowledge article 1005, “Supported Software Components”. |
| ISPL‑2202 | The Solr distribution that PolicyCenter includes is upgraded to version 7.2.2. |
| ISPL‑2206 | Fixed an issue where some gwb command prompt tools used the
wrong working directory. |
| ISPL‑2309 | Applied a hint on SQL Server 2017 to use the legacy cardinality estimator for LinkChain queries to improve performance. |
| ISPL‑2396 | Dynamic Management View (DMV) report requests now have include database statistics selected by default. |
| ISPL‑2468 | Added a field to an index on the database table for Zone
entities to improve the performance for certain queries. |
| ISPL‑2469 | Resolved an issue in which certain values in the clustering MBeans used a non-serializable type that prevented remote observation. |
| ISPL‑2477 | Fixed an issue with the inbound file framework where some internal classes that
implement the InboundFileHandler interface would fail validation
and throw a ClassNotFoundException. |
| ISPL‑2492 | Added support for es_ES (Spanish) language usage. |
| ISPL‑2503 | Corrected a server start-up message regarding supported database versions. |
| ISPL‑2537 | It is now possible to provide a hint to a SQL Server database on a Gosu-defined query to use the Legacy Cardinality Estimator while running the query. This can help improve performance in certain specific cases. |
| ISPL‑2540 | Upgraded the Apache ZooKeeper library to 3.4.14. |
| ISPL‑2554 | In message responses in web services, MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization
Mechanism) document attachments now support xop:Include inside
complex types. For example,
http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime:base64Binary. |
| ISPL‑2627 | When an archive item fails to get archived due to a database deadlock, it is now marked as skipped and the next archive run picks it up and attempts to archive it. No further administrative intervention is needed. In the previous releases, an administrator needed to go to the Info Pages → Archive screen and clear the errors. |
| ISPL‑2635 | Added support for streaming/bulk deletes on the WorkflowLogs
table. Also added the configuration parameter
WorkflowLogPurgeRowLimit, which controls how many rows in the
WorkflowLogs table are deleted in one commit. The parameter
accepts an integer value from 0 to 1000000. A value of 0 means delete all available
rows in the table in a single commit. |
| ISPL‑2636 | The PurgeWorkflows.gs file has several new Gosudoc
comments. |
| ISPL‑2689 | Improved performance of check for current message transport status. |
| ISPL‑2747 | Updated the Joda-Time library to version 2.10.4 to provide newer timezone data to the application. |
| ISPL‑2753 | Added configuration parameter
BulkInsertSelectCardinalityEstimatorHint, which takes a
comma-separated list of database table names. Use this parameter with SQL Server
2017 to force the use of the legacy cardinality estimator in the
BulkInsertSelectPreparedStatementHandler class. |
| ISPL‑2900 | Changed the Japanese Imperial Calendar to select the current era as soon you type a numeric value in an empty text input. |
| ISPL‑2988 | Fixed an issue where shutting down a JBoss server would show a Timer thread error. |
| ISPL‑3179, ISPL‑3180, ISPL‑3181 | Updated the jackson-databind library to version 2.6.7.3. |