Artifact support in traditional and container environments

The following table lists the artifacts that are supported in the Business Automation Workflow traditional environment versus the Business Automation Workflow on containers environment. Not all the artifacts are supported in the container environment. Also, not all the artifacts that are supported on containers are available in the traditional environment.

For information about editing these artifacts in Process Designer, or for information on converting these artifacts to other formats, where applicable, see Where to edit Process Designer artifacts.

Table 1. Artifacts supported in the traditional and container environments
Artifacts Traditional environment Container environment
Blueworks Live subscription Yes Yes
Business object Yes Yes
Client-side human service Yes Yes
Content Management toolkit Yes. You can use either version 8.6.0.0 or version 8.6.0.0_TC of the toolkit in a traditional environment. For more information, see Toolkits Yes. You must use version 8.6.0.0_TC of the toolkit. For more information, see Toolkits
Content objects Yes Yes
Decision support in service flows Yes Yes
Event subscription Yes Yes
Exposed Process Value Yes Yes
External implementation Yes External implementations are supported, however, they require conversion. See Converting external implementations External link opens a new window or tab.
External service: external implementation Yes Yes
External service: Java™ service Yes Yes. However, Java classes that rely on features specific to WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment are not supported.
External service: REST service Yes Yes
External service: web service Yes Yes, however, only external services of type web service that were discovered in v18.0.0.2 or newer can run in a container environment. To use other external services of type web service, you must rediscover them as described in Calling an external service.
Heritage coach (deprecated) Yes Support for heritage coaches in container runtime only.
Heritage human service (deprecated) Yes Yes
Localization resource Yes Yes
Process Yes Yes

However, processes that use the deprecated basic case management feature are not supported in a container environment.

Note: To reference an external service with an external implementation binding, use a user task.
Process application setting Yes Yes

However, process application settings for servers are restricted to the following servers in the container environment:

  • Enterprise Content Management server
  • REST server
  • Web service server
Server file Yes Yes
Service flow Yes Yes
System Data toolkit Yes. You can use either version 8.6.0.0 or version 8.6.0.0_TC of the toolkit in a traditional environment. For more information, see Toolkits Yes. You must use version 8.6.0.0_TC of the toolkit. For more information, see Toolkits.
Team Yes Yes
Theme Yes Yes
Tracking group Yes Yes
Undercover agent Yes Yes
User attribute definition Yes Yes
View Yes Yes
Web file Yes Yes
Web service (inbound) Yes Yes
Advanced Integration Service (AIS) Yes No
Ajax service (deprecated) Yes No

To convert Ajax services to service flows that are supported in a container environment, see Converting heritage services.

Business process definition (BPD) (deprecated) Yes No

To convert BPDs to processes that are supported in a container environment, see Converting BPDs to processes.

Chart type Yes No
Decision service (deprecated) Yes No

To convert decision services to service flows that are supported in a container environment, see Converting heritage services.

Design file Yes No
Document type Yes No
General system service (deprecated) Yes No

To convert general system services to service flows that are supported in a container environment, see Converting heritage services.

Historical analysis scenario (deprecated) Yes No
IBM® Case Manager integration service Yes No
Integration service (deprecated) Yes No

To convert integration services to service flows that are supported in a container environment, see Converting heritage services.

Key performance indicator (KPI) Yes No
Layouts (chart type, report filter, etc.) Yes No
Report Yes No
ScoreBoard Yes No
Service-Level Agreement (SLA) Yes No
Simulation analysis scenario (deprecated) Yes No
Timing interval Yes No