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:
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- Run Business Automation Workflow on
containers with Microsoft SQL
Server
databases.
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- Linux on IBM Power (ppc64le) is now a supported cluster architecture to install Business Automation Workflow.
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- Run Business Automation Workflow on
containers with Microsoft SQL
Server
databases.
- Traditional:
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- Run Business Automation Workflow with a
Standard deployment environment on PostgreSQL databases. Only custom
installation is supported for PostgreSQL.
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- 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.
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- Run Business Automation Workflow with a
Standard deployment environment on PostgreSQL databases. Only custom
installation is supported for PostgreSQL.
Author, run, and operate your workflow applications more efficiently
- Work efficiently with a modern Process Designer
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- Debug service flows and client-side human services more easily by setting breakpoints.
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- Work more easily with larger scripts by using the expanded script editing area.
- Easily change the context of variables between input, output and private.
- Debug service flows and client-side human services more easily by setting breakpoints.
- 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.
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Author, run, and operate your case solutions more efficiently
- Benefit from a consistent user interface building experience
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- 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.
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- Leverage quick tasks and to-do lists to create enhanced case pages by using the new human
service-based Case Tasks List view.
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- 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.
- 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.
- Implement common interaction patterns in case solutions more easily
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- 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
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- 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
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- Enable Case Analyzer to process the events that are generated for a completed case.
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- Enable Case Analyzer to process the events that are generated for a completed case.
Work more efficiently
- Work more efficiently with tasks and documents in Case Client
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- Benefit from an improved filtering and sorting of case and activity system properties for the
process work items in your in-basket.
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- View and work with items that are configured with existing processes in your in-basket.
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- View and work only with process work items that are assigned to you in your in-basket.
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- Show due dates for process tasks in the case client in-basket.
- Apply filter events for process tasks in your case in-basket.
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- Move documents from a folder to another folder within a case.
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- Benefit from an improved filtering and sorting of case and activity system properties for the
process work items in your in-basket.
- Follow the progress of a process in Process Portal on containers
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- Access the process diagram that provides the overview and progress of your process in Process Portal on containers.
APIs
- 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.
IBM Process Federation Server
- Discover federated REST API documentation with Swagger UI
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- 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.
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- 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.
Gain insights into exposed automation invocations
Learn about the state of an invoked automation (REST) service by monitoring events.
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