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What's New in IBM Business Process Manager V8.6 CF2018.03

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The following new features and fixes are included in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) V8.6 cumulative fix (CF) 2018.03.

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Update to IBM BPM V8.6 CF2018.03 to experience all the highlights, such as these added abilities and improvements:

IBM BPM Platform Configuration
  • Specify an alternative port number for an SMTP server.
  • Control how EPV variables are cached.
  • Control caching of environment variable values.
  • Swing profiles between product installations.

Modeling Enhancements in the web Process Designer
  • Model decision tables.
  • Create new Advanced Integration services in the web Process Designer.
  • Automatically create processes instead of BPDs.
  • Specify a team for process application administrators in Process Designer.

Developer Usability in the web Process Designer
  • Display process variables and tag groups in a visualization window.
  • Find a toolkit snapshot easily.
  • Create and use tag groups in the web Process Designer.
  • Benefit from enhanced validation support and an integrated validation framework.

Business UI
  • Use stable URLs for client-side human services exposed as URL.
  • Monitor and maintain the performance of the Process Portal index.
  • See only the next task in IBM Process Portal.

Process Analytics
  • Experience additional monitoring events for service integrations.

ECM Integration
  • Launch a process instance from an existing document on an external ECM server.

Documentation
  • Access the documentation online or configure it to open locally.

IBM Process Federation Server
  • Access Process Federation Server REST APIs by using Swagger.
  • Experience finer monitoring capabilities on running Process Federation Server instances.

For more information, see What's new in IBM Business Process Manager V8.6 CF2018.03.

IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere V10.0
  • Experience simplified JSON data structure handling.
  • Combine bots into workflows.

For more information, see What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere V10.0.

Use IBM BPM V8.6 in new environments

For more information about the supported configurations, see the IBM BPM support site:

Notes:

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Modified date:
14 September 2022

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