IBM Business Automation Workflow V 18.0.0.2

Preventing tasks from completing in suspended BPD instances

In the 100Custom.xml files for Workflow Server and Workflow Center, you can use the prevent-complete-task-in-suspended-instance setting to prevents tasks from completing in suspended BPD instances.

About this task

If the prevent-complete-task-in-suspended-instance setting is not set or is set to the default value of false, tasks are permitted to complete in suspended BPD instances. However, if you change the setting value to true, tasks cannot complete in suspended BPD instances.

If you want to change the current value for the setting, you can override the value by adding or updating the setting in your 100Custom.xml files. For example, to add the setting to a 100Custom.xml file, you would add the following elements under the <properties> element and modify the value as needed:

<server>
   <bpd-engine>
      <prevent-complete-task-in-suspended-instance merge="replace">true</prevent-complete-task-in-suspended-instance>
   </bpd-engine>
</server>

For information about the individual 100Custom.xml files that need to be updated and their locations, see the topic Location of 100Custom configuration files.

However, to consistently and reliably change the value of the setting in all of the 100Custom.xml files in your Business Automation Workflow deployment environment, it is recommended that you use the updateBPMConfig command as described in the following procedure:

Procedure

  1. Stop the servers for Workflow Server and Workflow Center.
  2. Start the scripting client in disconnected mode as described in the topic updateBPMConfig command.
  3. Run the following commands to simultaneously update all affected servers: 
    wsadmin> AdminTask.updateBPMConfig( [ '-create', '/server' ] )
wsadmin> AdminTask.updateBPMConfig( [ '-create', '/server/bpd-engine' ] )
wsadmin> AdminTask.updateBPMConfig( [ '-create', '/server/bpd-engine/prevent-complete-task-in-suspended-instance', '-xNodeValue', setting_value ] )
wsadmin> AdminConfig.save()

    Replace the setting_value variable with either true or false.

  4. Restart the servers.

Results

The recommended way of updating the 100Custom.xml files is by running the updateBPMConfig command. However, if the updates are unsuccessful, you can manually update the files by following the steps in the topic Creating a 100Custom.xml configuration file.