Interstage BPM
New Features
Release 11.2.1
Fujitsu America
August 2012
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Summary
Release 11.2.1 is
 a minor update to address specific issues that customers have
raised in order to make the current capabilities more
accessible to more applications.
 fully compatible with releases 11.2a & 11.2, does not require a
database schema change and should not cause any
incompatibility with existing 11.2 applications.
 can be adopted with very low difficulty
 include significant application debugging capabilities
 should make server maintenance, administration, and
application development much easier and less costly, which is
probably the main reasons that a client would want to migrate
to 11.2.1
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Overview
 Improvements in V11.2.1 Fall into five categories:
 Server Robustness
 Console User Interface and Performance Improvements
 Operability for Studio, including Debugging
 Extensions of the ModelAPI Capability
 Market Driven Enhancements
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Server Robustness
 Setup Improvement
 Elimination of many verbose parameters from the Deployment tool.
 On-screen hint in Deployment toool to guide administrator
 Manual work after deployment is mostly eliminated
 Analytics integration significantly simplified
 Error reporting improved to help you resolve underlying problem
 Log Improvement
 Log information is segregated into four different log purposes: System
Error Logs, Trace Logs, Audit Logs, Support Logs
 Health Check when starting server
 Required configuration parameters are checked when starting, and any
problem is clearly reported so it can be addressed
 Tenent starting and Application starting also check that all configured
resources are available.
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Console UI and Performance
 Console Performance:
 The “My Tasks” page and the “My Processes” page will load about 50%
faster now, depending upon the number of items by eliminating the need
to load all items at once.
 Page logic now only loads the first page worth, and loads subsequent
rows only when exposed.
 Usability Improvements
 Attachment dialog updated to be more understandable
 Reuse Process Instance
 User can start new process instance using by closed process instance.
The process instance name, description, and UDA values are
incorporated from the closed process instance into the new one.
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Operability for Studio, including Debugging
 Keyboard Shortcuts
 Necessary modifications have been completed in order to assure section
508 compliance. In Studio, User can execute the following operations by
key board short cut:
 Navigate direction, Open/Hide palette, Drop node from palette, Select
“Arrow”, “Diagonal Arrow”, “Select” on tool button, Draw
arrow(connecting, reconnecting, changing its shape), Validate Process
Definition
 Process Debugging
 Studio can connect to live BPM server process instance
 Stopping, starting and resuming a process instance
 Update UDA data while the process is running
 Debug operation of Console work items and process instance lists
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Extensions of the ModelAPI Capability
 Abort Suspended Process Instance
 By this new API method, the client program can now abort a process
instance if it is in suspended state. The behavior will be the same as
calling abort from a running process instance. You no longer have to put
the process into running state in order to abort it.
 Node Instance Activation
 Directly activate (or re-activate) a node in any state, whether Initial,
Completed, Error, Aborted. Previously some transitions were
disallowed.
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Market Driven Enhancements
 Single Sign On by Windows Authentication
 User can login Console automatically, by using NTLM (Integrated
Windows Authentication) in Active Directory network.
 BPMN 2.0 Support
 Interstage BPM has supported BPMN 2.0 graphical notation since
version 11.0 so there is no change in the visual format of processes.
 User can now import/export BPMN 2.0 serialization format file from/to
Studio.
 Support node sequential looping on compound node.
 Process definitions can use the node sequential looping function with
compound nodes. This allows a process to easily repeat an embedded
subprocess a defined number of times.
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