What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation as a Service 23.0.3

Automatic handling of GridView controls in SAP

GridView controls in SAP are now automatically recognized by the recorder thanks to the implementation of a new algorithm. You no longer need to map the elements by ID manually.

Read more about it in Interacting with GridView controls during SAP automation.

New permissions on RBAC

The following permissions have been added to RBAC to provide basic access to the IBM RPA Control Center. See them below:

• Basic Control Center permissions
• Basic RPA permissions

FIPS enabled by default

For Tenants created starting from version 23.0.3, FIPS is enabled by default. To improve the security of your environment, you must configure your tenant to comply with FIPS. See Planning for FIPS 140-2 for more information.

Server-side fixes

• [APAR DT192037] Fixed an issue that would cause an orchestration process to fail after losing connection with the MSMQ system queue provider.
• Fixed an issue where the name and computer fields were not marked as mandatory when you tried to create a computer group in the IBM RPA Control Center.
• Fixed an issue where the Create bulk users function in the IBM RPA Control Center would not show all the available teams.
• Fixed an issue where you would not get a notification after deleting a project in the IBM RPA Control Center.
• Fixed an issue where the description of permissions in the IBM RPA Control Center would not be translated to the user's current language.
• The Version field, located in the Steps tab from the Edit process page in the IBM RPA Control Center, is now correctly placed in the interface.
• New validations were added so that the name that is assigned to a queue provider respects the rule of the selected queue provider.
• When you open an instance's details in the IBM RPA Control Center, you can now view the data in a new tab.
• The Credential Pools page has been removed from the IBM RPA Control Center.
• The Jobs page in the IBM RPA Control Center now only asks for the script version after it has been selected.
• When creating a new parameter in IBM RPA Control Center, the Key and Value fields had their character limits changed to 200 and 2000 respectively.
• When selecting the All scripts option on the Scripts tab of IBM RPA Control Center, the search now shows all of the tenant's scripts.

Client-side fixes

• [APAR DT143129] Fixed an issue where the Watch and Set Credentials in Browser (watchAndSetBrowserCredentials) command would not automatically populate authentication fields in the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome browsers.
• [APAR DT144084] Fixed an issue where a script would exit debug mode after running a script called by the Execute Script (executeScript) command.
• [APAR DT180516] Fixed an issue where the Java recorder was unable to map elements in a sequence.
• [APAR DT188299] Fixed an issue where the Get Value (getValue) command could not get the SAP GUI status bar output.
• [APAR DT188310] Fixed an issue where the Save Office File As (officeSaveAs) command would return the wrong path after saving a file in a directory that already has another file with at least one matching word.
• [APAR DT188561] Fixed an issue where the Start Screen Recording (startRecording) command would not work on Windows Server 2016.
• [APAR DT196016] Email commands no longer use the global proxy configured during installation.
• The Map XML (mapXml) command does not allow saving after creating mappings.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the IBM RPA Studio to crash after opening or closing a report file.
• Fixed an issue where the Find and Replace window would crash in IBM RPA Studio.
• The Move File (fileMove) command is no longer moving the directory along with the file.
• Fixed an issue where the callback configuration file would not be created after installing IBM Robotic Process Automation.

Integrating IBM RPA with external APIs

New IBM Robotic Process Automation integration with external APIs course is now available. Enroll now!