Upgrading from IBM Business Process Manager V8.0 to IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1.x

The topics in this section describe the steps to follow when completing the upgrade from IBM® Business Process Manager V8.0 to IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1.x, including V8.0.1.1 and V8.0.1.2.

The tools and related user interfaces that interact with the Process Center must be at the same version and release level as the Process Center. The repository does not support the previous release or the release before that, only the current release. Even though you might be able to connect an installation of IBM Integration Designer at the current release level to a Process Center at the previous release level, you should not publish any process applications that have gone through artifact migration.

Note: For information on updating the Process Designer, see Updating the IBM Process Designer.

Important: When you upgrade to IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1.2, the Process Portal application is replaced in your profiles. If you previously added any customizations to the process application in Process Designer (for example, an IBM Connections server or an IBM Sametime server), and you still want to use those servers, you must complete the following tasks:

Define the servers again in V8.0.1.2 of the Process Portal application.
Create a snapshot.
Activate the snapshot on Process Center.
Install the snapshot on Process Server.

The Process Center and online Process Server versions must match exactly; otherwise the two cannot connect. If the Process Server version does not match the Process Center version, the Process Server can be used only in offline mode. For example, if the Process Server moves to V8.0.1, it no longer can be an online Process Server in Process Center if Process Center is still at V8.0. The only way you could deploy new snapshots to such a Process Server would be by using offline server mode, in which you create a deployment package and install it manually on Process Server.

If Process Server and Process Center are installed in separate cells, you can still work in offline mode so long as the Process Server version is the same or later than the Process Center version. The Process Center should be upgraded last.

Restriction: IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1 provides revised support for governance processes. Migration of governance processes developed for V8.0 is not supported.