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Tools — System

Use these links to learn about Pega Platform tools, accelerators, landing page tabs and wizards that support system-wide tasks, including performance analysis, database, and system operations.

Name

Purpose

  C  
Column Population Jobs Displays the status of property optimization jobs run in the background.
Compiler Identifies the classpath and external JAR files that support Service JAVA rules.
  D  
Database Trace Monitor the SQL interactions between the Pega Platform's server engine and the PegaRULES database or external relational databases, and the operation of the rule cache.
Delete a Class Remove a class, all of its pattern- inheritance dependent classes and associated objects such as properties, activities, instances (including work items, attachments and assignments)
Delete a RuleSet Delete an entire ruleset or a specific version of a ruleset.
  F  
Final Conflicts List the rules in the current application that have potential conflicts with final rules.
  H  
Hotfix Manager Obtain catalogs of available hotfix packages; scan your system for hotfix status; and install, rollback and commit hotfixes.
  L  
License Compliance facility Reports to provide evidence that usage remains within the parameters established in your software license.
Logging Level Settings Lets you temporarily override the severity settings in the prlog4j2.xml file for the current node, and control which logging events appear in the Pega log.
Log Files Lets you view or download the current Pega log, Security log, Alert log or other logs on the server node you are accessing.
  M  
Modify Schema View and manually modify the database schema.
My Alerts View lines from the current Alert log on the server node produced by your own requestor session.
  O  
Optimize Schema Evaluates database optimizations that could improve system performance, database size or other resource use.
  P  
PAL Display in detail the system resources consumed by processing a single requestor session, or the SQL statements sent to the PegaRULES database by the requestor session.
Package Work Create a product rule that identifies the work items, assignments, history, and attachments for an application.
Performance Profiler Obtain a detailed trace of performance information about the execution of activities, when condition rules, and data transforms executed by your requestor session.
Product Migration Lets you automatically archive, migrate, and import a product package to one or more destination systems.
Project Management Allows you to quickly set up connectivity between your applications and the Project Management Framework.
Property Optimization Allows you to expose a top-level Single Value property as a database column.
Purge/Archive Use an agent to automatically delete old work item data from the respective tables and/or store them in ZIP archive files.
  R  
Refactor on Import Rename classes in a ruleset archive or product archive as it is imported.
Refactor rules Move rules with a specific Applies To class from one ruleset into another ruleset or another Applies To class, removing them from the current ruleset.
Rename a Class Rename a class and all of its pattern inheritance dependent classes.
Resource URLs Records three URLs that provide access to the help system, Directed Web Access, and the System Management application.
Revalidate and Save Lets you force revalidation in bulk of selected rule or data instances of a single type.
Revalidate for References Lets you perform limited revalidation to improve the completeness and accuracy of Referencing Rules feature.
Rule Compare Helps you compare different versions of rules.
Rulebase Compare Identify differences in the rules present on two Pega Platform systems.
Rules not using lightweight lists A utility that searches for rules in your application that are using page lists where they could instead use lightweight lists for better performance.
RuleSet Maintenance Helps you copy rulesets and ruleset versions into new versions, merge several ruleset versions into one version, move rules out of one ruleset into another, or change a ruleset version's number.
  S  
Schema Change Tracking List the cumulative changes to the PegaRULES database schema supporting this system.
Schema Report Reports whether all the required database tables in the Pega Platform base schema are present in your system.
Search Allows you to monitor and control the full-text search facilities.
Search/Replace a String Search for and replace a string wherever it appears in rules in the entire PegaRULES database.
Security Policies Allows you to adjust the security options and CAPTCHA on the login and password-change screens.
Skim a Ruleset Copy the highest (major or minor) version of existing rules to a higher version.
Static Assembler Pre-assemble all the rules in an application, to avoid assembly-upon-first-use.
System Management Application Allows you to monitor and control caches, agents, requestors, listeners, and other processing in your Pega Platform system.
System Name Rename the current system name.
System Reports Application These six reports support performance analysis of your system.
System Scan Evaluates your system’s current inventory of rules, code, and hotfixes, comparing them with the latest hotfix catalog from Pegasystems Global Customer Support.
  U  
Uncommitted Hotfixes Lists hotfixes that are not installed.
Hotfix Manager Connect to Pegasystems Global Customer Support to search for, download, and install hotfixes.
Upgrade Existing Applications Provides access to various tools for upgrading applications, after the Pega Platform system upgrade is complete.
Usage Metrics (License) Reports and charts about recent system usage, as captured by the License Compliance facility.