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Introduction
In this article, I am going to explain some
of the new features and Cumulative Fix 2018.03 of IBM Business Process Manager.
IBM Business Process Manager updates are now
released as quarterly cumulative fixes to enable you to get the latest fixes
and product enhancements with a simple in-place upgrade. IBM BPM V8.6
Cumulative Fix 2018.03 is now available for you to download and upgrade today.
Overview
IBM BPM CF2018.03 highlights
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Control how EPV variables are cached.
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Control caching of environment variable
values
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Swing profiles between product
installations
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Model decision tables
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Create new Advanced Integration
services in the web Process Designer
Ø Automatically create processes instead of BPDs
What's New in IBM
Business Process Manager V8.6 CF2018.03
IBM BPM Platform Configuration
Specify an alternative port number for an SMTP server
In IBM Process Designer, you can now change
the port number for an SMTP mail server by adding or updating the new
mail-smtp-port setting in the 100Custom.xml file.
Control how EPV variables are cached
A new cache named EpvVarValueCache has been added to help you store exposed process
value (EPV) variables. You can control the cache by adding or updating the
enable-epv-var-value-cache and default-epv-var-value-cache-size settings in the
100Custom.xml file. Use the enable-epv-var-value-cache setting to enable or
disable EpvVarValueCache. Use the
default-epv-var-value-cache-size to specify the size of EpvVarValueCache.
Control caching of environment variable values
A new cache named EnvVarValueCache has been
added to help you store environment variable values. You can control the cache
by adding or updating the enable-env-var-value-cache and
default-env-var-value-cache-size settings in the 100Custom.xml file. Use the enable-env-var-value-cache
setting to enable or disable EnvVarValueCache. Use the
default-env-var-value-cache-size to specify the size of EnvVarValueCache.
Swing profiles between product installations
If you run many Linux servers, you can
configure your environment to use a common set of profiles that you associate
with multiple installations. Because the profiles are decoupled from a specific
installation, you can associate the profiles with different application server
installations or swing the profiles, which means "to dynamically change
profiles to a new service level of a product release."
Modeling Enhancements in the web Process
Designer
Model decision tables
You can now model decisions by using
decision tables. You can also export those definitions for more advanced
scenarios by using IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Rule Designer.
Create new Advanced Integration services in the web Process Designer
You can now also author Advanced Integration
services without using the desktop Process Designer.
Automatically create processes instead of BPDs
When you import a BPMN archive into the web
Process Designer, processes rather than business process definitions (BPDs) are
created. Also, the newly created processes now automatically open in the web
Process Designer.
Specify a team for process application administrators in Process Designer
Process application administrators can
perform actions on instances or tasks throughout a specific process
application. You can now specify a team for process application administrators
(referred to as the Portal Admin Team in the desktop Process Designer) in the
web Process Designer by using the Process App Settings editor.
Developer Usability in the web Process Designer
Create and use tag groups in the web Process Designer
In the web Process Designer, you can now
create and use tag groups to quickly sort and organize library items for your
process applications and toolkits.
Display process variables and tag groups in a visualization window
When you author a process in the web Process
Designer, you can now launch a visualization diagram for the process in a
separate browser window and then select local input, output, and private
variables to display. You can also select and display tag groups for services
that are defined for the process.
Find a toolkit snapshot easily
With the addition of the toolkit filtering
capability in Process Designer, you can easily find a toolkit snapshot to
create a dependency on it or change the dependency to a different version.
Benefit from enhanced validation support and an integrated validation
framework
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Easily identify and locate validation
issues from a new unified view in Process Designer. You can view validation
errors and warnings in the current artifact or project in a single view.
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Open the artifact that has an error
directly from the validation view or from IBM Process Center.
Ø Find the exact location of JavaScript errors in Process Designer editors
with client-side JavaScript syntax validation.
Business UI
Use stable URLs for client-side human services exposed as URL
You can now call a dynamically selected
version of a client-side human service by using name-based parameters in its
URL. Unlike the original ID-based parameters, name-based parameters ensure that
the URL remains unchanged after updates to the service or process application.
Monitor and maintain the performance of the Process Portal index
You can now use the index performance
indicators new to the Process Admin Console Performance Dashboard to monitor
and maintain the performance of the Process Portal index. These indicators
provide information, such as the number of updated indexes and the index table
rows that you can clean up. To avoid performance issues that might occur if
there's a large amount of unused index data, run the new indexTablesCleanup
command to delete this unused data.
See only the next task in IBM Process Portal
To have Process Portal display only the task
that follows the one that you just completed, instead of the full Work task
list, you can choose to show the Next Task dashboard.
Process Analytics
Experience additional monitoring events for service integrations
Service integration monitoring events now
include events for service tasks, decision tasks, and content integration
tasks.
ECM Integration
Launch a process instance from an existing document on an external ECM
server
You can now use a document start event to
launch a process instance from an existing document on an external ECM server.
This approach is useful when you need to perform certain operations that are
associated with the document, such as having a team review it. The enhanced
Start Process and Exposed Processes REST APIs further support this capability.
Documentation
Access the documentation
The mechanism that opens topics from IBM BPM
changed. In previous releases, the IBM BPM Help application opened topics in
the local file system or the online documentation, depending on where the topic
was available. In V8.6.0 Cumulative Fix 2018.03, the IBM BPM Help application
was removed. Now, when you click a link in IBM BPM, the topic opens in the
online documentation. You can configure the help system so that topics open in
the documentation that you downloaded locally.
IBM Process Federation Server
Access Process Federation Server REST APIs by using Swagger
With the Liberty API Discovery feature, you
can now access the Swagger interface for the Process Federation Server REST
APIs from an HTML page and interact with those APIs.
Experience finer monitoring capabilities on running Process Federation
Server instances
Ø Use new MBeans to monitor Elasticsearch and retrievers.
Ø With the new configuration attributes in the Process Federation Server.xml
configuration file, you can now enable or disable scheduled maintenance
operations on the Process Federation Server indexers.
Conclusion
The above new features and fixes are
included in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) V8.6 cumulative fix (CF)
2018.03. Please wait for more new features in upcoming releases.
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