Starting with IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) 24.0.1.0 traditional, you can now continue running and completing your in-flight process and case instances on IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, using the same instance databases from your traditional environment. This will be accomplished with no data loss. Beginning with 25.0.0.0, you can also complete this task on IBM BAW on containers.
The diagram below illustrates the database reuse scenarios, where the Workflow process instance database is backed up and restored, and the case instance database is reused. This facilitates the completion of BAW instances in the container environment.
For new process instances, they can be deployed directly from the traditional development environment to the container environment. Alternatively, the projects can be exported from the traditional development environment, and then imported into the container development environment, where new Workflow process instances can then be deployed to the container runtime environment.
Please see the documentation links below for more information.
- Support for BAW in IBM CP4BA 24.0.1 and beyond
- IBM Db2 (24.0.1 and beyond), Oracle (25.0.0 and beyond) Microsoft SQL Server (25.0.0 and beyond)
- Support for IBM BAW (on OpenShift and Rancher) 25.0.1.0 and beyond
References:
24.0.1 Webinar
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/discussion/webinar-moving-process-instances-from-baw-traditional-to-cp4ba-baw-on-containers#bm542d29b8-4646-491a-ac52-312f47e062e0
Documentation
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/25.0.x?topic=automation-moving-inflight-process-instances