What's new in IBM Business Automation Workflow 22.0.1

Learn about the many new features in IBM® Business Automation Workflow 22.0.1.

Update to IBM Business Automation Workflow 22.0.1 to experience all the highlights, such as these added abilities and improvements.

Supported environments

Containers:

Run Business Automation Workflow on containers with Microsoft SQL Server databases.Learn more...
Linux on IBM Power (ppc64le) is now a supported cluster architecture to install Business Automation Workflow. Learn more...

Traditional:

Run Business Automation Workflow with a Standard deployment environment on PostgreSQL databases. Only custom installation is supported for PostgreSQL. Learn more...
Modify the default behavior of Process Portal by using custom properties. The configuration of custom properties is available for new installations or upgrades of Business Automation Workflow that use a PostgreSQL database. Learn more...

Find out more about the supported environments for Business Automation Workflow.

Work efficiently with a modern Process Designer

Debug service flows and client-side human services more easily by setting breakpoints. Learn more....
Work more easily with larger scripts by using the expanded script editing area.
Easily change the context of variables between input, output and private.

Define an instance migration policy by using Workflow Center: In previous releases, you could use only the IBM Process Center console in the desktop Process Designer to define an instance migration policy for deleting or moving orphaned tokens. However, in this release you can define the migration policy in Workflow Center. Learn more...

Benefit from a consistent user interface building experience

Modernize your case solution user interfaces by using client-side human services and UI views, which are newer technologies that provide a flexible and dynamic way of building case pages. By using the same method to build your case and process user interfaces, you simplify the authoring and maintenance of your workflows. Learn more...
Leverage quick tasks and to-do lists to create enhanced case pages by using the new human service-based Case Tasks List view. Learn more...
Benefit from a more flexible configuration, customization, and pre- and post-processing of information that uses the default Add, Split, and Case Details human service pages.
View documents in IBM Content Navigator Viewer when you use client-side human services to create case UI pages for your case solutions.

Implement common interaction patterns in case solutions more easily

When you assign FileNet® P8 process tasks, you can now restrict the list of available users to only the role members of the case solution.

Work on different case solutions in multiple project areas

Partition your projects and test environment to work on different case solutions in multiple project areas and easily switch between them when you log in to Workflow Center or Business Automation Studio. You can also filter solutions to show only the solutions that are specific to a selected project area.

Capture updates to closed cases

Enable Case Analyzer to process the events that are generated for a completed case. Learn more...

Work more efficiently with tasks and documents in Case Client

Benefit from an improved filtering and sorting of case and activity system properties for the process work items in your in-basket. Learn more...
View and work with items that are configured with existing processes in your in-basket. Learn more...
View and work only with process work items that are assigned to you in your in-basket. Learn more...
Show due dates for process tasks in the case client in-basket.
Apply filter events for process tasks in your case in-basket. Learn more...
Move documents from a folder to another folder within a case. Learn more...

Follow the progress of a process in Process Portal on containers

Access the process diagram that provides the overview and progress of your process in Process Portal on containers.

Override the default name of a discretionary case activity: When you create your case solution, you can override the default name of a discretionary case activity started from a process with an optional, more specific name by using the parentCase.createDiscretionaryActivity(id, <optional name>) JavaScript API.

Discover federated REST API documentation with Swagger UI

Process Federation Server now uses Swagger UI that provides visual documentation of parameters, payloads, schemas, and responses and is available by default. As Swagger UI is generated automatically, you no longer need the apiDiscovery feature to discover your REST API documentation on a Liberty server. Learn more...

Learn about the state of an invoked automation (REST) service by monitoring events. New information Learn more...