This topic applies only to the IBM Business Automation Workflow Advanced configuration.

Undeploying a process application tip on a Workflow Center server

The tip is the current working version of a process application or toolkit. You can use the Workflow Center console to undeploy a process application tip from the Workflow Center server. When you undeploy a tip, all advanced content artifacts and the associated business-level application (BLA) are removed from the server. However, the process application definition and other artifacts are still present in the repository.

A BLA is a WebSphere® Application Server configuration artifact that is created only for a snapshot that has advanced content generated in IBM® Integration Designer.

Before you begin

When you use the Workflow Center console to undeploy, it first stops, then undeploys the BLA. In a network deployment environment, make sure that all the node agents are active before you stop a BLA. If a node is inactive, the BLA enters the UNKNOWN state instead of the STOPPED state and fails to stop, although the stop command runs asynchronously and completes without an error. The failure to stop along with the UNKNOWN state prevents you from undeploying the BLA.

About this task

If the process application uses BPEL processes, the associated process instance data is cleaned up from the Business Process Choreographer database before the process application tip is undeployed.

Procedure

  1. From the Workflow Center console, select the Process Apps tab.
  2. Select the appropriate process application, and then click the Snapshots option.
    In the list of snapshots, the tip (named Current, by default) is listed first.
  3. Click Undeploy from the tip pop-up menu (the downward arrow icon used to access actions for the tip).
  4. Click OK.

What to do next

If you want to use the process application tip, perform a playback in the Process Designer or publish the tip from IBM Integration Designer.