What's new in 18.0.2 - March 2019

Product upgrades on IBM Cloud Private

The following product versions are now supported in 18.0.2.

IBM Business Automation Configuration Container 18.0.2

IBM Business Automation Configuration Container is a part of Digital Business Automation for Multicloud and has the same version number in each release. Learn more...

IBM Business Automation Insights 18.0.2

Business Automation Insights is a part of Digital Business Automation for Multicloud and has the same version number in each release. Learn more...

IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.10.1

IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.10.1 includes an ODM event emitter that connects to Business Automation Insights to store and monitor your decisions. Learn more...

IBM Business Automation Workflow 19.0.0

IBM Business Automation Workflow 19.0.0 includes enhanced features for consolidating processes and cases, and various performance-related improvements. Learn more...

IBM FileNet® Content Manager 5.5.2 interim fix 001

IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.5.2 interim fix 001, Content Search Services 5.5.2 iFix 001, and Content Management Interoperability Services 3.0.4 iFix 005 include fixes and updates to the previous images. Learn more...

IBM Business Automation Navigator 3.0.5 interim fix 002

IBM Business Automation Navigator 3.0.5 interim fix 002 includes a new parameter and numerous fixes to V3.0.5. Learn more...

Support for Certified Kubernetes deployment

Kubernetes is used in systems to deploy, scale, and manage applications in the cloud. Kubernetes is not a traditional, all-inclusive PaaS (Platform as a Service) system because it operates at the container level rather than at the hardware level. Digital Business Automation for Multicloud supports deployment of its cloud-native applications at the container level to provide choice and flexibility about which PaaS you want to use. Learn more...

IBM Business Automation Insights new capabilities

Capture IBM Operational Decision Manager business data

Business Automation Insights can now store and process decisions that are emitted as events by Operational Decision Manager.

For access to getting started material, dashboard samples, and Jupyter Notebooks, see IBM Operational Decision Manager samples.

Kubernetes Ingress

Self-signed certificates do not provide sufficient protection to the ingress resource created in previous versions. To secure the Business Automation Insights services, you must create your own resource with your own set of trusted certificates. The ingress controller on each of your nodes routes the HTTPS requests to the newly exposed NodePort or ClusterIP.

Learn more about exposing Business Automation Insights services.

Kafka

Automatic topic creation

If you do not create Kafka topics before initial configuration of Business Automation Insights, they are created automatically. However, the default automatic Kafka configuration is not sized for a production environment.

Learn more about preparing your Kafka cluster.

Egress topic

You can disable the Kafka egress topic by using Helm chart commands, for example to save resource consumption by job execution.

Learn more about disabling Kafka egress.

Certificates

You no longer need to set the kafka.caCertificate parameter. Learn more about Kafka parameters.

Apache Flink job log levels

You can use ConfigMaps to define log levels.

Learn more about Flink log4j setup..

Elasticsearch

The antiAffinity parameters are now editable.

Learn more about Elasticsearch parameters.

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

File size of anonymization rules

The size of the file for anonymization rules is no longer limited to 4096 bytes.

Learn more about anonymization.

Client/server communication

You can use ConfigMaps to configure communications from the HDFS client to the server.

Learn more.

Disabling HDFS

If you set up HDFS storage for Business Automation Insights and no longer require an HDFS server, you can now disable it by using Helm chart commands.

Learn more about disabling HDFS.

Miscellaneous productivity enhancements

Whenever you need savepoints, for example to upgrade your Business Automation Insights release, or to disable HDFS or the Kafka Egress topic, you can now use a script to create and retrieve those savepoints.

You can also use folders to register checkpoints.

Learn more about checkpoints and savepoints.

Security

The procedure to secure communications from the BPMN event emitter to Kafka requires fewer parameters.

Learn more about BPMN event emitter security.

BPMN events

Business Automation Insights supports events to monitor the lifecycles of processes and activities, looped activities, tasks, gateways, timers, and tracking groups.

Learn more about BPMN event formats.

Case events

Case tasks are renamed to Case activities.

Learn more about Case event types and formats.

About case activity dashboards might, see also Table 2.

IBM Cloud Pak Certification

IBM Cloud™ Paks are a collection of container assets that include capabilities for deployment, lifecycle management, and production use cases. The following products are Cloud Pak L1 Certified in 18.0.2.

• IBM FileNet Content Manager
• IBM Business Automation Navigator
• IBM Business Automation Configuration Container

Learn more about IBM Cloud Paks.

GDPR guidelines to protect your data better

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) practical implementation steps to minimize risk, ensure compliance, and protect your product and clients data. Learn more...