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  • Datacap

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  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Business Automation Workflow
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Upgrade BAW \ WAS to run Java 11

Please upgrade BAW to use a newer version of Java. Java 1.8 is very old and does not integrate with Datadog APM \ tracing. Java 1.8 is also very inefficient compared to 1.11. Newer versions of Java would help improve our services to our customers.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2021

    Hi Robert,

    This was rejected because WAS-ND (8.5.5 and 9.0.5) are both tied to Java 8 and are not moving beyond Java 8.

    Oracle has stated they will support Java 8 through December 2030: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html

    WAS 8.5.5 and WAS 9.0.5 will follow a similar timeline including both standard support and extended support.

    Announcement: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS220-128

    Blog: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/imwuc/blogs/michael-thompson/2020/03/24/was-2030-announcement

    BAW can only support what WAS-ND supports for the traditional deployment.

    With that said, WAS Liberty, which is what BAW on containers uses, does support newer versions of Java. We are planning to update to a newer version of Java (e.g. Java 11) for BAW on containers in a future release.

    -Brian


  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 11, 2021

    This was created from case TS007506362

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