IBM WebSphere Process Server, version 6.0.2,
includes new features.
Welcome to IBM
® WebSphere
® Process
Server ,
version 6.0.2, which includes the following new features:
- Easier and fast integration between WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere
ESB, and WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere
MQ with new WebSphere MQ JMS binding.
- Service governance with dynamic runtime lookup and invocation of services
(integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository).
- Easy-to-use, comprehensive human-centric business process management scenarios:
- Web client generation tool for business users to generate user interfaces
and task lists.
- Customizable out-of-the-box administration and configuration client for
administrators.
- Enhanced support to build clients for business users from powerful JSF
components for both Web-based and WebSphere Portal clients.
- Secure Web services interface for generic workflow client applications
on any platform, including .NET and J2EE (easier access for remote clients).
- Remote client install option, which provides an environment for custom
remote clients that use the WebSphere Process Server APIs (not just on the
same system as WebSphere Process Server).
- Ability to assign work to a group, or team, of individuals who all share
the same job or responsibility, in shifts or in parallel.
- Line of business users can create additional tasks (insert additional
tasks into a task-list), schedule follow-up work for the same user, or follow-on
tasks for co-workers, and handle events that were not planned for in advance.
- Customized e-mail message for human task escalations (for example, to
alert a manager that a task has not been processed).
- Post-processing of staff query results to add customer-specific workforce
management policies (such as staff workload balancing, and substitute when
absent) and integration with additional custom staff repositories.
- Business processes queries and filters based on client-specific process
data (such as order ID or client name) that can be saved as private views.
- Task redistribution based on organizational staff and responsibility changes,
using a timer-controlled daemon.
- Server-controlled page flow capability to automatically present users
the next task at hand within the same business process.
- Graphical view of processes to track status and drill down into each individual
activity.
- Runtime administration improvements (dynamic reconfiguration, with no
need to rebuild or redeploy):
- Administration configuration of mediation properties and end points.
- Dynamic end-point selection: the administrator can intervene to get part
of the process to interface to a different system (for example, to change
from Oracle to Siebel dynamically for future process instances).
- Ability to handle unmodeled faults from Web service invocations.
- Ability to add mediation modules after deployment without going into WebSphere
Integration Developer.
- Event sequencing: Preserve the processing sequence of events in which
they were generated remotely.
- Configurable clean-up service to automatically delete business process
instances from the database.
- Graphical charts and flexible drill-down capabilities for historical
and accumulated data such as average process duration or actual work time.
- Tight integration between information services and business processes:
- Information Service Activity that provides direct access to relational
database systems with the support of full SQL and interaction with other information
management services (for example, Extract, Transform, Load) and federated
access to heterogeneous information sources such as ECM systems.
- Support for WebSphere Integration Developer plug-in for information management
activities.
- Business rules improvements:
- Support for more common business rule logic scenarios, including specifying
initialization logic for a decision table, specifying an "otherwise" clause
on decision table conditions and using "return" option available in rule sets
to force running the rule list to end.
- Simplified rule programming model to lower development time and cost.
- Improved visibility to business rule changes with new audit capabilities,
including support for an "approval" scenario as rules are promoted from one
environment to another.
- New business rule import and export capability to simplify maintaining
consistency between server or environment instances.
- Support for IBM DB2 on z/OS as a remote data base management system.
- Simplified server configuration using the WebSphere Application Server
Network Deployment console for clusters and multiple cells.
- Additional platform support for Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86-64), HP-UX 11i2
(PA-RISC), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and
Linux on zSeries (64-bit).
- Quick Start CD and Quick Start Guide to assist you with the installation
process.
Last updated: Thu 26 Oct 2006 10:30:05
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