What's new in 20.0.1 - March 2020

What changed to help operate Cloud Pak for Automation

Install for evaluation and demonstration purposes

To get started with the Cloud Pak, you can now install a single capability of Digital Business Automation (DBA) in a specified namespace. Learn more...

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.3

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.3 support is added to 3.11 and 4.2. Administrators must make an explicit decision whether to upgrade the platform. OCP 4.3 uses Kubernetes 1.16 with CRI-O runtime, which is an increase of two versions from OCP 4.2. For more information, see OpenShift 4.x upgrades phased roll out. To upgrade automation containers that are installed with 19.0.3, you first must get access to the new docker images. You also need to download the new scripts and descriptors from the GitHub repository, install the new operator, and apply the version increase in your custom resource file that you used in 19.0.3.

Common Services

Cloud Pak for Automation now connects with Hybrid Cloud Common Services to bring operational Identity and Access Management (IAM), metering, and monitoring. To enable failover and high availability (HA) ensure that two or more instances are deployed.

Note: Before you install the Cloud Pak components, IAM must be installed and connected to your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that you want to use to authenticate users. You can then configure the User Management Service (UMS) to delegate authentication to IAM. Learn more...

Teams REST API

The User Management Service (UMS) Teams REST API can be used to administer teams and supports GraphQL. Learn more...

Access tokens

To simplify the use of UMS, your programmatic clients can exchange an access_token that has a default validity of 2 hours for an app_token that is valid for 366 days. Learn more...

Apache Flink support

Business Automation Insights now relies on version 1.9.1.

Confluent Kafka support

Business Automation Insights for a server now uses Confluent Kafka 5.3.2-1. Learn more...

HDFS data lakes

Business Automation Insights for a server can now send raw events, time series, and completed summaries to HDFS data lakes. Learn more...

Base64 encoding

When you configure IBM Business Automation Insights for a server, passwords in the .env file are now base64 encoded. Learn more...

What changed to help build applications with Cloud Pak for Automation

App Designer improvements

Many improvements in App Designer help you build applications more easily. With the ability to discover processes and process apps in IBM Workflow Server, you can start processes faster. Plus, you can now use complex type parameters in your processes. When you configure actions and views, you'll also notice enhancements to the authoring extension mechanism.

Digital Worker improvements

Digital Worker users can now choose from a list of job areas, job roles, and activities to help them create a digital worker. Learn more...

Users also have a growing list of extra skills to choose from including Elasticsearch queries, process management, case management, and a generic REST call. Learn more...

Users can also lock resources to protect them from being overwritten by others. Learn more...

What changed to help use Cloud Pak for Automation

Operational Decision Manager improvements

Operational Decision Manager now integrates with the User Management Service (UMS). Learn more...

It is now also possible to optimize the execution unit (XU). Learn more...

Single sign-on

The single sign-on support that is provided by User Management Service is now known as the User Management Service (UMS) SSO option.

UMS Teams

The new User Management Service Teams option is a microservice that manages global teams for Cloud Pak for Automation components. Learn more...

Business Automation Insights for a server

Business Automation Insights on a single node is now called Business Automation Insights for a server. Learn more...

More event types to gain insight from

Business Automation Insights for a server can now ingest IBM Automation Digital Worker (adw) and FileNet® Content Manager (content) events. Learn more...

Mode setting for Business Automation Navigator

Business Automation Navigator is now deployed in Platform mode. Administrators can update the setting to Platform plus Content mode to enable capabilities like browse, search, workflow, teamspaces, and platform apps. Learn more...

Object Type and Key Class management for Business Automation Content Analyzer

Content Analyzer users can now use an object type management tool to define object types on a tenant and use the ontology management tool to add and manage key classes. Learn more...