Migrating artifacts to IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.6

Artifact migration uses a parallel target production environment that is configured differently from the source production environment. You import the applications from the source production environment into development tools and migrate the applications using the migration procedures of the development tools.

Use artifact migration for your development and test environments, even if you choose to use business data and application migration for your staging and production environments.

Artifact migration includes the following high-level tasks:
  1. Install the new product version.
  2. Configure your parallel production environment.
  3. Import the applications from the source production environment into development tools and migrate the applications using the migration procedures of the development tools.
  4. Optional: Update the migrated applications to use new capability that is delivered in IBM® Business Process Manager V8.5.6.
  5. Manually deploy the migrated applications from the development tools to the target production environment.
  6. Optional: Run both environments in parallel so that business process instances and human task instances that are in progress finish in the source environment and new instances start in the target environment.