Pega - Pega Versions Interview Questions and Answers
Differences between Pega 6 and Pega 7 and Pega 8
Differences between Pega 6 and Pega 7 and Pega 8
Pega 6 | Pega 7 | Pega 8 |
| We used to have Organization Set up wizard | This wizard is removed and replaced with New Application Creation Wizard. | This wizard is removed and replaced with New Application Creation Wizard. |
| We have case types but we don’t have case designer like, stages, processes and steps. | Case Designer is introduced for case type life cycle. | Case Designer is introduced for case type life cycle. |
| We used to have data tables | Data tables deprecated and replaced with Data Type of Storage. | Data tables deprecated and replaced with Data Type of Storage. |
| We have Declare pages | Declare pages are replaced with Data Pages | Declare pages are replaced with Data Pages |
| We have only read only declare pages | Data pages have read only/ editable and saveable options. | Data pages have read only/ editable and saveable options. |
| We don’t have keyed page access | We have keyed page Data pages. | We have keyed page Data pages. |
| We don’t have smart/automation shapes in work flows. | Smart/automation shapes introduced in Pega 7 | Smart/automation shapes introduced in Pega 7 |
| We have standard and advanced agents | We have standard and advanced agents but from pega 8, we have these agents deprecated and replaced with Scheduler and Queue processor rules. | We have standard and advanced agents but from pega 8, we have these agents deprecated and replaced with Scheduler and Queue processor rules. |
| We have SMA | Initial version of 7 has SMA, later we have admin studio in place of SMA. | Pega 8 has Admin Studio in place of SMA. |
| Abstract class names must have a ‘-‘ at the end of class name. | Having Dash ‘-‘ at end of abstract class name is deprecated from pega 7 | Having Dash ‘-‘ at end of abstract class name is deprecated from pega 7 |
| We don’t have Association joins in reports | Association rules and association joins are introduced into reports. | Association rules and association joins are introduced into reports. |
| Dynamic Select control was available to populate values dynamically into dropdown. | This control is deprecated and replaced with new control pxDropdown. | This control is deprecated and replaced with new control pxDropdown. |
| Pega 6 we don’t responsive UI. Here no div tag, used HTML. | We have responsive UI feature built in, using DIV tag of HTML5 | We have responsive UI feature built in, using DIV tag of HTML5 |
| We used to have only One Schema | Pega has introduced Split schema architecture. Data and Rule schema. Rule will store into tables of rule schema. Data gets stored into the tables of Data schema, | Pega has introduced Split schema architecture. Data and Rule schema. Rule will store into tables of rule schema. Data gets stored into the tables of Data schema. |
| REST integration wizard was not there | REST integration wizard is added | REST integration wizard is added |
| Optimistic locking was not there, only default locking. | Optimistic locking has been introduced. | Optimistic locking has been introduced. |
| We get compilation error when we create and use non-optimized properties | We get server warning message whenwe create and use non-optimized properties but there will be no error. | We get server warning message when we create and use non-optimized properties but there will be no error. |
| We have Assignment, Flow, Work object level SLA. | We have Assignment, Flow, STAGE and Work object level SLA | We have Assignment, Flow, STAGE and Work object level SLA |