Release 10.11

Explore the release highlights, usage notes, known issues, and fixes for IBM webMethods Integration.

What's New

New features and enhancements Description
Maintain workflow execution logs In this release, the Maintain workflow execution logs option is not selected by default. You can manually enable it from the user interface.
Undo and Redo changes for workflows You can now undo the changes made to your workflow and redo the changes made by the undo operation. This is attained by using the Undo and Redo options on the workflow canvas.

API Reference IBM webMethods Integration provides a robust set of APIs that allow you to programmatically integrate your own applications with IBM webMethods Integration in a simple and secure manner.
IBM webMethods Integration APIs permit access to IBM webMethods Integration functionalities and data in an authorized way to accomplish integration of systems and applications. The APIs are based on the REST architectural style and can be communicated using HTTP requests.
Publishing and unpublishing custom webMethods CloudStreams connectors using IBM Designer Using IBM Designer, you can now deploy custom webMethods CloudStreams connectors to your desired IBM webMethods Integration tenant.
Note: Publishing and unpublishing custom webMethods CloudStreams connectors using IBM Designer is restricted and is not publicly available. Contact IBM Support for more information.
Support for SAP® ERP SAP® ERP allows you to extend your SAP business processes and integrate non-SAP products using open and non-proprietary technology. SAP® ERP allows for bi-directional and real-time communication to and from the SAP system.
Note: SAP® ERP Connector access is restricted and is not publicly available. Please contact IBM Support for more information.
Overwrite existing Flow services while importing Flow services functionality has been enhanced to overwrite existing Flow services. A warning message appears during the overwrite process indicating that existing Flow services will be overwritten.
User Interface enhancements Workflows and Flow services are now available under the new Integrations tab for enhanced usability.

New connectors The following new connectors have been added in this release:
  • Amazon EC2 - Allows you to run applications on the AWS cloud and scale up or down their computing capacity on demand.
  • ARIS - Allows you to create the connection between ARIS and the runtime systems, for example SAP® or Oracle® systems.
  • Atlassian Jira - Allows you to perfrom tasks related to bug tracking and project management.
  • Google AI Platform Training - Allows you to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models in the cloud.
  • Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - Allows you to send HTTP or HTTPS requests to web servers from within the IBM webMethods Integration environment.
  • Magento eCommerce Platform Bulk - Allows you to develop a flexible shopping cart system as well as complete control over their online store’s appearance, structure, and functionality.
  • Pastebin - Allows you to upload and share texts.
  • Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) - Allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify the stream or bytes of data.
  • Salesforce Bulk v2 Data Loader - Allows you to quickly load large amount of the organization’s data into the Salesforce system and bulk query the information using the APIs provided.
  • SAP S/4HANA Marketing Cloud - Allows you to create or update CRUD operations on business objects using the OData-based REST interface, which lets you to do only bulk imports.
  • OAuth 1.0 Keys - OAuth 1.0 Keys is the in-built action provided by IBM webMethods Integration to generate OAuth 1.0 parameters.
Map by array Index for Document and Document References The Array Mapping feature in Pipeline has been enhanced in this release to support index mapping for Document, Document List, Document Reference, and Document Reference List data types.
New services The following new services have been added in this release:
  • Flow
    • getLastFailureCaught - Returns information about the last failure that was caught by a CATCH step.
  • IO
    • close - Closes an InputStream or a reader object and releases the resources.
    • createByteArray - Creates a byte array of the specified length.
    • mark - Marks the current position in the InputStream or reader object.
    • markSupported - Enables you to test whether your InputStream or reader object supports the mark and reset operations.
    • Read - Reads a specified number of bytes from the InputStream and stores them into a buffer.
    • readAsString - Reads the data from a reader object and converts it to a string.
    • Reset - Repositions the InputStream or the reader object to the position at the time the mark service was last invoked on the stream.
    • skip - Skips over and discards the specified number of bytes or characters from the input stream or a reader object.
    • streamToReader - Converts a java.io.InputStream to a java.io.Reader object.
    • stringToReader - Converts a string object to a String Reader object.
  • JSON
    • closeArrayIterator - Closes the iteration. The iterator object used in an iteration cannot be reused after this service runs.
    • getArrayIterator - Returns a batch iterator object.
    • getNextBatch - Gets the next batch of array elements by parsing the array paths in the iterator object returned by the getArrayIterator service.
Edit messaging subscribers The new Edit option provided for subscribers enables you to update existing subscriber information such as description, destination, and invocation details.
Earlier, you had to delete and recreate the subscriber to modify any fields. Now, you can directly modify the subscriber without having to recreate it.
Message routing The Message Routing feature enables you to define one or more routing rules for messages within a subscriber. Upon receiving a message, IBM webMethods Integration evaluates each routing rule. When the rule criteria matches, the application initiates the business processes (invocates target) that is configured in the rule or initiates the business process specified in Default invocation.
Setting routing rules allows you to define the actions that must be taken after receiving a message without requiring manual intervention.
Options are provided for add routing rules in one of the following ways:
  • Workflows - Creating a subscriber and defining filters
  • Messaging - Creating a subscriber and defining routing rules
In addition, you can either modify, reorder, or delete routing rules for a subscriber.
Tutorials The Tutorials section has been reorganized into generic and connectors related tutorials available in IBM Tech Community.
Connector Monthly Releases (CMR) A new section is added for you to explore the release highlights, known issues, and usage notes for the IBM webMethods Integration Connectors monthly releases.

Fixes

This section provides information on the fixes for IBM webMethods Integrationv10.11.

Issue ID Release Date Region Description
BIC-15974 July 21, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS Systems were slow to respond and ran into timeout and 502 Bad Gateway errors. This issue is resolved by adding caching to reuse the sessions.
BIC-13756 May 7, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
Workflows intermittently go into pending status and the pending executions cannot be processed. Pulsar version is upgraded to 2.8.3.
BIC-14783 May 7, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS
Changes are made to the recovery manager to ensure that listener events are not missed for recovery purposes.
BIC-14739 May 7, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS
Event listener gets executed twice. This issue occurs because during listener recovery, the listener is re-registered to an active processor. The old listener connection is unregistered to resolve this issue.
CCH-3431 May 7, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS
For the Salesforce Streams connector, if users create multiple authorization accounts in a workflow or Flow service, the following error might appear: INVALID_SESSION_ID: This session is not valid for use with the REST API.
BIC-14920 May 7, 2022 US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
AU2 Sydney AWS
Security fix on the 3rd party components (Spring-core). In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.16 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL expression that may cause a denial of service condition. Refer to: cve-2022-22950: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability. This issue has been resolved by upgrading the application to the safest version of Spring-core (5.3.18).
BIC-13446 March 17, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS
Undefined error appears while deploying a project between two tenants.
BIC-13703 March 17, 2022 US1 Oregon AWS
Issue with service accounts replacement in Flow services after deployment. The deployment screen requires the account to be used in the Flow service but it is not mapping it, so upon completion of deployment, the reference connection is missing.
BIC-14156 March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
For the AS2 connector, a new field Authorization Type is added in the Account Configuration page. This field allows you to add the type of HTTP authorization scheme you want to use for a connection. You can choose one of the following options:
  • none: No additional authorization scheme will be executed at run time. For example, when you specify a user name and password, but do not specify a value for the authorization type, the user credentials are not inserted into an authorization header.
  • basic: When the application requires or supports HTTP basic authentication for username and password.
BIC-14125 March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
Incoming requests are not getting mapped in a workflow.
While running a workflow from a REST API, an extra body parameter gets enclosed to the original body of the REST request while sending it to a workflow.
Now an extra parameter is not added to the original body when sending the input to a workflow, while running the workflow from a REST API.
BIC-12361 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
After deploying the SFTP connector, when you try to create a new SFTP account, the following error message appears: SFTP server alias already exists.
BIC-12789 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
API response did not include the header details that were defined by a user in the Workflow. This issue is resolved by including all workflow headers to the REST API. Now, all the headers that were defined in the Workflow will be returned to the user in the API response.
BIC-12713 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
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US2 East Azure
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On-premises connector does not work when used from the Messaging Subscriber. A messaging Subscriber executes the configured Flow service upon receiving a message. When a Flow service gets executed from a Subscriber, it lacked certain contextual data required for the on-premises connector to work properly. As a result, the on-premises connector did not work.
FLOW-3468
CSOWAS-5438
March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
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EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
Issues while publishing projects.
BIC-13325 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
The description of the Rest API resource and parameter were removed when we edit and save a Flow service attached to a Rest API. Earlier, the description of a Resource could be updated from two places, one from the Rest API resource screen and the other from the Flow service. Now we have disabled updating the description from the Rest API screen. You can update the description only from the Flow services screen.
CCH-2799 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
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March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
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AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
For the MS SQL connector, if a user tries to add an account with an invalid credential, the ConnectionError message now appears.
BIC-12006
BIC-13083
BIC-13210
BIC-12855
March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
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US2 East Azure
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Transaction usage data is not shown and getting transaction data with the original tenant name details.
BIC-12235 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
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March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
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AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
Clock trigger is not working.
BIC-12488 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
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US2 East Azure
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AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
Read File action output is appearing partially masked in Logger action, that is, inputs which are not masked are appearing partially masked.
BIC-12952 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
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AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
Payload object is logged by the exchange component inside Loggly.
BIC-12908 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
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March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
Execution logs are getting generated on Action Test. Now test action data will not be seen under the monitor execution logs.
BIC-12445
WST-5965
March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
Error occurred while updating an account for the AS2 connection.
KUB-10910 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
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EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
Creating a SOAP API with a large WSDL file, so included additional memory to handle large WSDL processing.
KUB-10982 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
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US2 East Azure
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The Maintain Execution Logs option is now disabled by default from all workflows. You can manually enable it from the user interface. Note that if the Maintain Execution Logs option is disabled, logs will still be generated on failure.
BIC-13197 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
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US1 Oregon AWS
Unable to create SOAP API using WSDL file. When the size of the WSDL file is large, SOAP API creation fails and timeout errors appear.
BIC-13310 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
Authentication issue while trying to send SMTP mails from workflows. Now enabled JSSE default for all tenants.
WF-22657 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
The Reply to Email action has been added in the Google Gmail Connector.
FLOW-3481 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
When using the jsonStringToDocument service, with JSON string and string fields with empty values, the fields were created as undefined. As a result, if conditions like is not null and is not equal to were not working on those fields.
BIC-13308 March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 12, 2022
March 13, 2022
US2 East Azure
EU3 West Azure
AU1 Australia East Azure
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
US1 Oregon AWS
Significant increase in the duration of Flow service execution in workflows for Azure tenants.
BIC-13202 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
BitBucket bot executions are not working.
BIC-13366 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
Workflows go into pending status intermittently and the pending executions cannot be processed.
BIC-12933 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
ServiceNow bot is not sending responses for the triggered events.
BIC-13203 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
Watercooler bot is not responding.
BIC-12931 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
RSS bot is not sending responses for the feeds.
BIC-12930 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
RSS bot responses are getting delayed.
BIC-12324 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
Some of the Workflow executions are going in pending state in CSC Demo tenant for the CSC_IC_Integrations project.
BIC-12694 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
Some of the Workflow executions are going in pending state.
BIC-12711 February 13, 2022
February 14, 2022
US1 Oregon AWS
EU2 Frankfurt AWS
Some of the Workflow executions are going in pending status.