What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation on premises 23.0.19

Release date: 07 November 2024

IBM Robotic Process Automation version 23.0.19 is now available. This version introduces enhancements and fixes to the product's client and server.

To upgrade to the new version, check out the following documentation:

For previous release notes on the 23.0.x mainstream, see Previous releases.

Enhancements

Suport for comments in variable definition

You can now add comments to the Define Variable (defVar) command. The comments that you include in the command are added as the description of the input variables, which you can visualize in the IBM RPA control center pages such as Bots and Schedules.

Fixed issues

This version fixes previous known issues that were found by users, as well as authorized program analysis reports (APARs), which is how IBM documents, tracks, and fixes problems.

  • [APAR DT392234] Wait Busy Window (waitBusy): Fixed an issue where the command would fail to identify the busy status of a window.
  • [APAR DT395601] Bulk Insert with SQL (sqlBulkInsert): Fixed an issue where the command would fail to run if column names contained special characters on SQLite.
  • [APAR DT395771] IBM RPA mainframe terminal emulator: The mainframe terminal emulator no longer stops responding if the terminal screen is blank or empty.
  • [APAR DT396501] Get Excel Table (excelGetTable): The command now correctly uses the range defined in the Interval parameter.
  • [APAR DT396720] Assign Value to Office (officeSet): The command now works with 64-bit integer values.
  • [APAR DT396755] Get Files (getFiles): Fixed an issue that would cause IBM RPA Studio to crash if the File Mask parameter was too long.
  • [APAR DT396828] IBM RPA mainframe terminal emulator: Fixed an issue where the screen recorder would crash after waiting for an action to finish.
  • [APAR DT397085] IBM RPA orchestrator: Fixed an issue that would cause the orchestrator to use more Reseved runtime for queued bot runs than it was allocated by the user.
  • [APAR DT397181] IBM RPA API: Recently started bots now appear first in the list of bots instead of last.
  • [APAR DT397263] Audit logs: Fixed an issue where the server would fail to create audit logs if the server had multiple tenants.
  • [APAR DT397512] IBM RPA Agent service: Improved the performance to initialize the agent after the computer starts.
  • [APAR DT397646] IBM RPA chatbot: Fixed an issue that would block the user from embedding the chatbot into an inline frame.
  • [APAR DT397779] Unlock Excel File (unprotectExcel): Fixed an issue where the command would incorrectly identify a protected Excel file as unprotected.
  • [APAR DT397973] IBM RPA with identity provider: Changed usernames are now properly updated in the UI.
  • [APAR DT398090] IBM RPA server: Deleting a team or group should no longer cause errors if there are users in the group.
  • [APAR DT398107] IBM RPA with identity provider: You can now deactivate users that are registered from an identity provider.
  • [APAR DT400156] IBM RPA mainframe terminal emulator: Fixed an issue where the recorder would fail to find the terminal's fields.
  • IBM RPA server: After losing connection with IBM MQ, the server now properly attempts to reconnect to prevent issues with scheduled runs.
  • Extract Address (extractAddress): Fixed an issue where the command could return more data than contained in the original text.

Known issues and limitations

  • The Extract Phone Number (extractPhoneNumber) command fails to extract numbers if the text contains parenthesis.

For more information, see Known issues and limitations.

Documentation updates