New in IBM BPM V8.5.7 Cumulative Fix 2016.09

Introduction

IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) updates are now released every quarter to enable customers to stay current, apply the latest fixes, and take advantage of new product enhancements sooner. Cumulative Fixes are applied to the latest BPM release as a simple in-place upgrade. IBM BPM 8.5.7 Cumulative Fix 2016.09 is now available for you to download and upgrade today.

Highlights

The following new feature and fixes are included in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) V8.5.7 cumulative fix 2016.09. With this update you will be able to…

New features:

  v   Invoke REST services directly from your business processes

  v  Create custom integrations using new low code web-based service editors to discover Java and REST based services

  v  Deploy BPM Advanced assets and manage the health of your processes using new self service facilities for BPM on Cloud

  v  Deactivate users who are no longer in the user registry and clean up their group memberships

New supported environments include:

  v  Microsoft Edge (for IBM Process Portal & Responsive Coaches)

  v  Oracle 12c multi-tenant feature

  v  Microsoft SQL Server 2016

  v  IBM DB2 11.1

Overview

New function in web Process Designer to create services

  Ø  Discover REST services, for example Watson, and Java applications and call them by using service flows. 

  Ø  Model services for business processes in the web Process Designer by using service flows. 

  Ø  Bring heritage services (that were created in desktop Process Designer) into the web Process Designer by converting them into service flows.

Deactivate users from your system who are no longer in the user registry

In typical organizations, people come and go and take on new roles. However, when users are known to IBM BPM (meaning they are in the IBM BPM database), they were available for task assignments and social interactions even after they were deleted from the user registry. Before this cumulative fix, there was no way to deactivate users in the database that were no longer available in the user registry. For more information about user lifecycle, see Runtime user availability and lifecycle.

Note: Deactivate users only if you use clients that rely on REST or JavaScript API calls. If the client uses the web service API, do not deactivate users because the API does not support user deactivation.

The following improvements were made for user deactivation:

  Ø  A new parameter added to syncExistingUsers admin script helps you sync user availability between the user registry and the IBM BPM database.

  Ø  APIs were adapted so that you can now look up users based on their availability by using an availability flag.

  Ø  APIs were adapted to prevent task assignments and social interaction requests to deactivated users.

  Ø  A new configuration property for the BPMServerSecurityUsers configuration object helps you define a default task owner to use when all the assigned task owners are deactivated.

Prevent group membership updates that might cause inconsistent data

  Ø  Now IBM BPM APIs validate group types before applying group membership updates, ensuring group membership updates that might cause inconsistent data are refused.

Update IBM BPM files at run time

  Ø  Use the new BPMUpdateFile command to update the contents of an existing file in your process application or toolkit. When the command is run, it creates a new version of the file at the tip of the branch.

New supported environments

  Ø  On Oracle Database 12c, you can now install and configure a multitenant architecture with pluggable databases.

  Ø  Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is now supported.

  Ø  IBM DB2 11.1 and the following DB2 database solutions are now supported:

·        DB2 Workgroup Server Edition (WSE)

·        DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition (AWSE)

·        DB2 Enterprise Server Edition (ESE)

·        DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE)

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