What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 23.0.17

Release date: 30 July 2024

IBM Robotic Process Automation version 23.0.17 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

Support for IBM Cloud Pak foundational services 4.0

IBM RPA is now compatible with IBM Cloud Pak foundational services (CPFS) 4.0 and higher. You can install IBM RPA alongisde a more recent version of your IBM Cloud Pak.

For more information see:

Support for IBM Standard HLLAPI

IBM RPA now supports IBM Standard HLLAPI for mainframe terminal emulators. For more information, see Connecting by using HLLAPI.

Support for input variables in scheduled runs

You can now enter input parameters for your scheduled runs. For more information, see the following documentation:

Changing connection ownership

You can now transfer the ownership of connections registered in the IBM RPA Control Center to another user. For more information, see Connections.

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 DT258172] IBM Cloud Pak Foundational Services: IBM RPA now supports CPFS 4.0 and higher.
  • [APAR DT381979] Create from Data Table (excelReport): Fixed performance issues with large datasets.
  • [APAR DT383197] IBM RPA Server API: Fixed an issue that could cause one of the API services to stop working after running operations in parallel.
  • [APAR DT386541] Get Cell Contents (getTableCell): Fixed an issue where the command was unable to replace null values.
  • [APAR DT386839] IBM RPA Agent: Fixed an issue that could cause the errors when trying to connect to IBM MQ servers.
  • [APAR DT387198] Using callback URLs: Fixed an issue where the IBM RPA server would send a response to the callback server defined by callbackUrl containing mismatching names of output variables. Now, the names on the output JSON should match the bot's OpenAPI specification.
  • [APAR DT387520] Get Excel Table (excelGetTable): Fixed an issue where the command was unable to read .xlsb files.
  • [APAR DT387622] Start Browser (webStart): Fixed an issue where the Use profile preferences parameter would not work on Firefox.
  • [APAR DT389356] Start Browser (webStart): Fixed an issue where the command would fail to start the Microsoft Edge browser.
  • [APAR DT389370] Start Browser (webStart): Fixed an issue where the command was unable to get the process ID from the web driver, leading to the "Win32Exception: Access is denied" error.
  • [APAR DT389449] IBM RPA mainframe terminal emulator: The terminal emulator now updates the screen resolution to fit the contents.
  • [APAR DT389610] Insert Data Table into Excel File (excelSetTable): Date values are no longer converted to plain text.
  • [APAR DT389749] Add Escape Characters to Text (escapeData): The command now properly escapes empty space characters.
  • [APAR DT390040] Open Excel File (excelOpen): The command no longer crashes if you try to use Excel templates.
  • [APAR DT390074] If (if): The command no longer returns an exception if you try to access the Rows property of an empty data table.
  • [APAR DT390387] UMS: The server can now import user names that contain more than 50 characters.
  • [APAR DT390539] IBM RPA server installer: The installer now properly registers the NLP and License Metric services.
  • [APAR DT390574] Get Excel Value (excelGet): The command no longer converts Datetime values to decimal in data tables.
  • [APAR DT390647] IBM RPA scheduler: Schedules that don't repeat no longer appear in the list of pending scheduled executions.
  • [APAR DT391225] Map Table Row (mapTableRow): The command no longer fails to convert empty values to numbers.
  • Create from Data Table (excelReport): The command now preserves the types of variables imported from the data table.

Documentation updates