Become familiar with what’s new in IBM® Business Process Manager V8.0 and access valuable resources that help you get started with different areas of the product.
- What’s new
- Improvements
- Deprecated features
- System requirements
- Release notes
- Additional resources
- Service releases
What’s new
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IBM BPM V8.0 provides numerous new product features and various enhancements and improvements to existing product capabilities. See the complete list of new product features and enhanced capabilities for IBM BPM V8.0. |
Improvements
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Review the most important improvements and fixes that have been made to existing features in IBM BPM V8.0.
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- Enhanced WebSphere Customization Toolbox (WCT) support for network deployment installation scenarios
- Preceding customizing the environment, z/OS administrators and
system programmers can follow a simplified initial installation and
configuration process. The simplified configuration is achieved through
the following improvements:
- z/OS support for applications and data
- Highlighted and well-documented roles
- Documentation and scripts that install a clustered BPM environment can be used at customer sites
- Fewer tasks that are outlined in installation spreadsheets
- Improved administrative support to start and stop deployment environments
- Using administrative console actions and wsadmin commands, you
can now start and stop a clustered topology in the correct order,
without errors. The status is communicated while the start or stop
operation progresses. When errors are encountered, an improved error-reporting
experience offers access to the log files that indicate which cluster
or node are affected and the specific error.
Starting and stopping deployment environments:
- Improved system retry control
- System-based automated retries for Service Component Architecture
(SCA) asynchronous invocations and long-running BPEL processes are
provided to eliminate uncontrollable retries that lead to data-integrity
issues. The following capabilities have been added:
- The ability to disable retries for the entire BPM system (SCA, BPC, bindings)
- Declarative ability, at design time, to indicate at operation level where a retry should occur by specifying a retry count and interval
- Administrative capability to adjust declared retries (count and interval) at run time without stop, start, uninstallation, or installation
- Prerequisite checking during the DB2 Express installation
- An improved installation experience helps you find and rectify
issues while the embedded DB2 Express installation progresses.
- The password selection matches the operating system-level policy.
- For a typical installation, the default user ID and password that are used for the DB2 Express installation are validated.
- For a custom installation, no default password is specified for the DB2 database user ID. You are required to enter a password and a matching confirmation password for the user ID.
- The installation program verifies whether a BPMINST database instance already exists. If it exists, you are prompted to delete the existing database instance before you continue. An automated check also verifies whether port 50000 is free and prompts you to rectify it if the port is not free.
- Interactive uninstallation of DB2 Express
- You can now cancel the removal of the embedded DB2 Express database if there are other installations that depend on it. Alternatively, you can choose to completely uninstall the BPMINST database installation as part of the DB2 Express uninstallation.
- Improved service creation and error handling
- An additional level of granularity enables you to differentiate
different types and severity of errors and manage exception paths
more effectively. Now you can identify, differentiate, and raise declared
exceptions as faults when they are defined on an Advanced Integration
service (AIS). A catch-all error event identifies errors that are
not declared. Improved consistency in error management provides the
following benefits:
- Promotes operational responsiveness
- Facilitates problem determination
- Reduces time to recovery
- Increases development productivity
Deprecated features
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IBM BPM extends capabilities found in previous versions of WebSphere® Integration Developer, WebSphere Lombardi Edition, IBM Business Process Manager, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, and other IBM business process management products. See a summary of product features that are deprecated and removed in IBM BPM V8.0: Deprecated
and removed features of IBM Business Process Manager: |
System requirements
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Review the system requirements and ensure that they are met before installing each product in the IBM BPM V8.0 suite.
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Release notes
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Check the release notes on the Support website for limitations and workarounds.
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Additional resources
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Use the following resources to access the IBM BPM community links and share knowledge and resources.
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Service releases
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The following interim fixes, including WebSphere Application Server fixes, are available for several products in the Business Process Manager V8.0 suite. Review the information
for your product, and download and install the applicable packages
from the following Support page: |
| Product name | Interim fix type | Interim fix name | Release date | Description |
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| IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.0 Fix Pack 3 (8.0.0.3) | Required | WAS 8.0.0.3 – Required Interim Fixes | May 18, 2012 | Provides required fixes for WebSphere Application Server V8.0.0 Fix Pack 3. |
| Optional | PM58769 PM58769 Z-Series |
May 18, 2012 | Corrects a possible performance downgrade when the java.util.logging.Logger.isLoggable method is called. | |
| Optional | PM62434 | May 18, 2012 | Fixes the CeaNotificationConsumer.wsdl issue without Internet access. | |
| Optional | PM63049 | May 18, 2012 | Corrects an out-of-memory error while creating profiles on Solaris non-English operating systems. | |
| Optional | PM63098 Z-Series | May 18, 2012 | Fixes an UnsupportedOperationException during the HTTP servlet filter on the z/OS operating system. | |
| Optional | PM63369 PM63369 Z-Series |
May 18, 2012 | Corrects the following issues:
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| Optional | PM63963 | May 18, 2012 | Increases the maximum heap size in manageprofiles to prevent an out-of-memory error. |
| Product name | Interim fix type | Interim fix name | Release date | Description |
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| IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8.0 | Recommended | Standard – JR42732 | May 18, 2012 | Corrects an SQL exception during a server startup for the stand-alone profile, when DB2 version 9.5 is used. |
| IBM Business Process Manager Express V8.0 | Recommended | Express – JR42732 | May 18, 2012 | Corrects an SQL exception during a server startup for the stand-alone profile, when DB2 version 9.5 is used. |
| IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0 | Recommended | Advanced – JR42732 | May 18, 2012 | Corrects an SQL exception during a server startup for the stand-alone profile, when DB2 version 9.5 is used. |
| Recommended | Advanced – JR42736 | May 18, 2012 | Fixes the authentication data aliases for the SCA and CEI Messaging engines that are missing for the MSSQL Server. Corequisite with JR42749. | |
| Recommended | Advanced – JR42749 | May 18, 2012 | Fixes the authentication data aliases for the SCA and CEI Messaging engines that are missing for the MSSQL Server. Corequisite with JR42736. | |
| IBM Business Process Manager Advanced – Process Server V8.0 | Recommended | Advanced – JR42732 | May 18, 2012 | Corrects an SQL exception during a server startup for the stand-alone profile, when DB2 version 9.5 is used. |
| Recommended | Advanced – JR42736 | May 18, 2012 | Fixes the authentication data aliases for the SCA and CEI Messaging engines that are missing for the MSSQL Server. Corequisite with JR42749. | |
| Recommended | Advanced – JR42749 | May 18, 2012 | Fixes the authentication data aliases for the SCA and CEI Messaging engines that are missing for the MSSQL Server. Corequisite with JR42736. |