What's new in IBM Business Automation Workflow V19.0.0.1

Process and case consolidation

Experience enhanced features in the new IBM Workflow Center

Using the enhanced features offered by the new Workflow Center, you can manage and deploy cases and processes in a unified case solution instead of separate case solutions and process apps. The new destination for IBM Case Manager and Business Automation Workflow users to work on their existing and new projects, Workflow Center enables you to

• View and manage your workflow projects from the new Workflow Center
• Create a single, consolidated workflow project that combines both process and case artifacts
• Add and orchestrate locally managed case activities backed by processes to your workflow projects
• Enjoy enhanced case awareness for processes orchestrated by cases

For more information, see Upgrading IBM Case Manager to IBM Business Automation Workflow.

Author coaches by using the streamlined palette

Enjoy a simplified experience in the Coach editor by using the streamlined palette. You can now dynamically sort and display views by category.

Enhancements to the palette include

• Functional categorization of views
• A much sharper set of icons
• An easier way to filter views by name, description, tag, and category
• Optimized space to display more views within the palette window

For more information, see Categorizing views.

Augment your IBM Case Manager with Business Automation Workflow

To manage and deploy unified process and case solutions through a new common Workflow Center, install Business Automation Workflow and augment your IBM Case Manager system, while preserving your existing case data and IBM Content Navigator configuration. For more information, see Upgrading your IBM Case Manager system.

Use an external IBM Content Navigator

When you deploy Business Automation Workflow V19.0.0.1, you can use an external IBM Content Navigator for content management. You can deploy the Case plug-ins and the Workflow Task plug-in to the external IBM Content Navigator through an SSL-protected URL, rather than physically being copied to the IBM Content Navigator environment. IBM Content Navigator can read the updated definitions from Business Automation Workflow and remotely update the plug-ins when required.

Improve performance

Easily discover external REST services

In IBM Process Designer, you can easily discover external REST services that have API key security definitions in their OpenAPI definition (formerly known as Swagger). You can invoke such services in a first-class fashion using a service task in a service flow. For more information, see Invoking a REST service.

Achieve single sign-on between IBM Process Federation Server and Business Automation Workflow environments

If Process Federation Server is federating Business Automation Workflow V18.0.0.1 and later releases, you can use the User Management service to provide the convenience of single sign-on between Process Federation Server and specific Business Automation Workflow environments. For more information, see Configuring SSO for federated environments by using the User Management Service.

Automatically log out users from IBM Process Portal if they are inactive

Using Process Portal, you can now monitor user inactivity and automatically log off users who are detected as inactive. Inactive users receive a warning message before they are automatically logged out. To define how long users may be inactive before they see the message and are then logged out, set the com.ibm.bpm.portal.inactivity.monitor and com.ibm.bpm.portal.inactivity.thresholdInSeconds mashups configuration properties. For more information, Configuring mashups custom properties for Process Portal.

Supported configurations

Use Db2® for z/OS® for case management

Business Automation Workflow 19.0.0.1 adds Db2 for z/OS to the supported databases for case management. For more information, see Configuring case management for DB2 on z/OS.

Find out about the supported configurations for Business Automation Workflow.