Feature support in IBM Business Automation Workflow in containers
Containers:
Supported
features for running workflow applications in containers.
Key supported capabilities in the container environment
You can use the following capabilities in the container environment:
- Process apps, case solutions, and toolkits that are built with the web-based designers using non-deprecated capabilities.
- Online and offline deployment from IBM® Workflow Center
- REST Operations APIs and REST Runtime APIs
- IBM Business Automation Insights event emission
- Process Admin Console
- V20.0.0.2 Workplace
- Process Portal
- Playback server in the Workflow Center traditional runtime environment for process applications destined for containers.
- With Cloud Pak for Business Automation 20.0.3, you can now author workflow applications in Business Automation Studio. For more information, see IBM Business Automation Workflow.
The fundamentals of deploying an application onto the Workflow platform running on containers are the same as those for deploying an application onto a traditional environment. Load balancing, clustering, and high-availability disaster recovery (HADR) rely on Kubernetes. Infrastructure ops, including admin APIs and tuning, are different compared to what you might be familiar with in a traditional environment.
What is not supported in the container environment
If you have existing applications in the traditional environment that you want to move to containers, these are the features that you must convert or remove.
- Deprecated features and artifacts
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- Deprecated features are not supported in the container environment. For a complete list of deprecated features, see Deprecated and removed features of IBM Business Automation Workflow.
- Deprecated artifacts (except heritage human services) that are created in the desktop Process Designer are not supported in containers. Although heritage human services are supported, heritage coaches that are included in heritage human services are not supported. For a detailed list, see Artifact support in traditional and container runtime environments.
- Case forms
- LiveConnect API to invoke Java from JavaScript in applications that are running in a container environment
- Capabilities not part of 20.x and 21.x
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Some of the following capabilities are not supported due to architectural differences in Liberty:
- Advanced applications that are created in IBM Integration Designer such as BPEL processes, Mediation flows, and SCA applications
- Performance Data Warehouse
- The Process Performance dashboard, and the Team Performance dashboard in IBM Process Portal
- Dynamic Event Framework (DEF) XML event emission
- Playback is available only in the workflow authoring environment in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 20.0.3.
- Wsadmin commands and scripts are not available in the container environment. They are replaced with REST Operations APIs.
- Exposing Web Services from process applications is only available from 21.0.2.
- IBM MQ and JMS integrations
- XML validation and transformation
- V21.0.2 IBM Business Automation Insights
- V21.0.2 IBM Business Automation Machine Learning Server