What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 23.0.2

Release date: 7 February 2023

Version 23.0.2 of IBM Robotic Process Automation brings as its main change the removal of license keys to use the product. This improvement prevents license-related problems from occurring, improving the user experience. See more details in Installation keys. Issues detected by users and reported by developers have also been fixed in this release. Discover more by browsing the following release notes.

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

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Enhancements

Installation keys

To provide a better customer experience, IBM Robotic Process Automation 23.0.2 introduces installation keys that replace the tenant code when installing the IBM RPA Client.

The use of installation keys provides the self-service requirement that customers were requesting. Starting from version 23.0.2, you can install the IBM RPA Client software using this key which is obtained from the IBM RPA Control Center.

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See more in the following topics:

Updating IBM MQ to version 9.3

IBM Robotic Process Automation on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 23.0.2 uses IBM MQ 9.3 as its system queue provider. IBM MQ 9.3 is a long-term supported release (LTSR).

Fixed issues

This version fixes previous known issues that are found by users. Customer issues are reported as authorized program analysis reports (APAR), which is how IBM documents, tracks, and fixes problems.

Server-side fixes

  • [APAR DT179070] Users with the Manage Dashboards permission can now delete the default Monitoring and Daily Monitoring dashboards from the IBM RPA Control Center.
  • [APAR DT180390] Processes started with an API call can now be restarted in the IBM RPA Control Center.
  • [APAR DT187748] Fixed an issue where connection between client and server was lost when starting a script with the IBM RPA Launcher.
  • [APAR DT188045] Scripts using the Get Parameter (getParameter) command do not fail when launched by the IBM RPA Launcher.
  • [APAR DT189481] When you access the details of a script in the IBM RPA Control Center, the Versions tab now appears regardless of the browser's window size.
  • Fixed an issue where the Create a new team modal in the IBM RPA Control Center would enable the button to proceed even if you had not selected a role for the team.
  • Fixed an issue where some computers would not be listed after searching for instances of a process.
  • Fixed grammatical errors in the IBM RPA Control Center's Queues page.
  • Fixed grammatical errors in the Manage connections page under the RBAC tab in the IBM RPA Control Center.
  • Users with the legacy super administrator role now receive all the permissions after migrating to the latest version of IBM RPA.
  • When requesting a report from IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT), the file no longer returns with incomplete information.

Client-side fixes

  • [APAR DT160794] Breakpoints are no longer removed when debugging a script with the Execute Script (executeScript) command.
  • [APAR DT179467] Fixed an issue where multipart requests using the HTTP Request (httpRequest) command were omitting the name and filename parameters.
  • [APAR DT188231] Fixed an issue where the Export Office File As (officeExportAs) command could not export Excel files to PDF.
  • [APAR DT179592] The Wait Control(waitControl) command now tries to identify visible windows if there is more than one control with the same name.
  • [APAR DT180510] IBM RPA Studio now displays an error message if any application uses the same hotkeys as the recorder.
  • [APAR DT189122] Fixed an issue where the Get Vault Item (getVaultItem) command had an insufficient timeout to receive the response from the API.
  • The Get Excel Value (excelGet) command now returns the calculated result of a formula, instead of just the formula's description.
  • Fixed an issue where the Apply Search Filter (emailApplySearchFilters) command would not filter emails if the subject did not contain only Roman alphabet letters, or if the body of the email had uppercase letters.