IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2.1            

Guidelines for checkpoint placement and usage

In a workflow definition, place checkpoint system functions in the following order: BeginCheckpoint, RollbackCheckpoint, and EndCheckpoint.

More specifically, the order is as follows:
  1. BeginCheckpoint. Save the work item data fields that are specified in the corresponding RollbackCheckpoint.
  2. A number of steps that might have some risk.
  3. A step that checks if the previous steps executed correctly and decides either to execute the rollback or to end the checkpoint processing.
  4. RollbackCheckpoint. Restore the saved data field values.
  5. EndCheckpoint. Discard the saved data fields values.

Placement

Usage considerations



Last updated: March 2016
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