What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 23.0.5

Enhancements to Fuzzy variable types

If you use Fuzzy sets and variables in your bots, this version introduces the following changes to better support the Fuzzy variable type:

• You no longer need to create a Numeric variable to assign values to a Fuzzy variable. Use the Assign Variable (setVar) command to assign values directly to the Fuzzy variable.
• Fuzzy variables no longer return an error if an entry value does not belong to the Fuzzy set. The variable now returns 0 instead.
• The Evaluate (evaluate) command now identifies and suggests Fuzzy variable types in the Expression parameter.

Option to enable FIPS in tenants

On version 23.0.3, newly created tenants had FIPS 140-2 compliance enabled by default. However, this might negatively affect compatibility with earlier versions of the product. Thus, Platform Administrators can now choose to enable FIPS compliance when they create a new tenant.

For more information about how to create a new tenant and to learn more about FIPS compliance, see the following topics:

• Planning for FIPS
• Configuring FIPS 140-2 in your environment
• Managing tenants

Extract Address command requires an API key

Following the deprecation of the pre-established API key in version 23.0.3, you must now use your own Google™ Geocoding API key in the Extract Address (extractAddress) command.

Server-side fixes

• [APAR DT196994] Fixed an issue that would cause an error when trying to get the access token from the API.
• [APAR DT208748] Fixed an issue that prevented the server's API service from starting automatically after upgrading the server.
• [APAR DT211269] Fixed an issue that would cause an error with Single Sign-On for users imported from LDAP.

Client-side fixes

• [APAR DT209572] Fixed an issue in which IBM RPA Studio was unable to calculate Excel formulas.
• [APAR DT209941] If a tenant has FIPS compliance enabled, connections made with the Connect to Terminal (terminalConnect) command must use TLS encryption.
• [APAR DT211117] Fixed an issue that caused a ghost window to appear after starting the IBM RPA Launcher on Citrix™.
• [APAR DT210900] Fixed an issue in which the Recognize Image Text or PDF (recognizeText) command would fail to identify editable fields in PDF files.