The Rocket Software team is pleased to announce that new and latest versions of Rocket Process Insights, Rocket API and Rocket Modern Experience are now available.
Today's businesses rely on IBM® i & IBM Z® for running hundreds of critical applications that are vital to their operations. For those businesses, Rocket software's Continuous Modernization Kit will enable them to create a data-informed modernization plan that will immediately and positively impact business productivity and ROI. The Continuous Modernization kit comprises of Rocket Process Insights, Rocket API and Rocket Modern Experience.
Rocket Process Insights provides an elevated level of awareness and data into their processes, helping businesses develop a modernization plan and evolve their IBM platforms without interrupting those important processes.
Once you have end-to-end visibility of your business processes with Rocket Process Insights, leverage Rocket Modern Experience and Rocket API to build modern, intuitive user interfaces and automate business processes with customer-host applications that improve productivity and enhance the experience of employees, customers, and partners.
Rocket Process Insights v10.4.0 extends the powerful capabilities of Process Insights to IBM Z® applications. This empowers analysts to effortlessly automate critical business processes by generating services with just a few clicks.
Rocket API v10.4.0 now adheres to the most current industry standards, now featuring OpenAPI 3.0 support.
Rocket Modern Experience v10.4.0 brings the much-anticipated feature of JavaScript support. This new enhancement helps to build advanced Web applications with intricate functionalities, making the process faster and more efficient than ever before.
Highlights include:
General Enhancements
Security
- The Apache Tomcat version used in the hub is upgraded to version 9.0.80 for securing against known vulnerabilities.
- The OpenSSL version has been upgraded to 3.1.3 to mitigate known vulnerabilities.
Java 17 upgrade
- To stay updated with the latest developments and utilize newer Java functionalities, all product components now require Java 17 as the minimum java version.
Rocket Process Insights
Easy service creation for IBM Z® applications
- Once you have identified your high-value business processes from the Heatmap, with just a few clicks within Process Insights, you can effortlessly create services for these crucial and time-consuming workflows. This functionality drastically reduces the time and effort needed for API development.
- Unlock the full suite of advanced functionalities in Process Insights, now accessible for IBM Z® applications.
Empowering Insights with BMS Maps upload option
- Introducing the ability to upload BMS maps for IBM Z® applications in Process Insights. This enhancement enables more precise insights by providing relevant screen and field names.
- This feature greatly assists Business Analysts in swiftly identifying automation candidates and constructing services effortlessly.
Combine tracks to get unified Insights
- Unveiling the Combine Tracks feature, which empowers Analysts to merge two or more distinct tracks, offering unified insights across all sessions within those tracks. By aggregating more data, analysts gain deeper insights for pinpointing critical business processes for automation.
Enhanced user experience
- Streamline your process identification from a specific application screen with this new feature. It significantly reduces the time for business analysts when searching for processes in the Application Graph.
- The average duration metric for processes, scenarios, and screens has been refined using standard deviation, eliminating outliers that may lead to inaccurate insights.
- Explore detailed statistics in the RHS data panel, aka accordion, of Process Insights with ease. Hover help in the accordion provides quick understanding of all the metrics displayed for Heatmaps, Processes, Screens, and Transitions.
Rocket API
OpenAPI 3.0
- In keeping with the most up-to-date standards, Rocket API now adheres to the OpenAPI 3.0 specifications for exposing created APIs.
- Experience the integration of Swagger UI in OpenAPI 3.0 format within Rocket MX and Automation Hub, showcasing APIs published from the workbench to the hub.
API usage reporting
- Gain valuable insights with the new monthly aggregated report, showcasing all API transactions hosted within the API engine. Access and download this report conveniently from the API Transactions menu under Rocket API in the Hub.
Rocket Modern Experience (MX)
Empowering development with JavaScript:
- Introducing the cutting-edge JavaScript engine in Rocket Modern Experience, transforming the process of building advanced web applications efficiently using JavaScript.
- While Rocket Modern Experience will continue to support LegaSuite (Seagull) scripting, we strongly recommend exploring the new module-driven JavaScript capability as a robust alternative.
- Unleash the power of JavaScript to effortlessly construct intricate functionalities for your web applications, as exemplified below-
- Screen interface using the Emulator module
- Page and control interface using the Page and Control modules
- Execution of web requests using the Fetch module
- File system actions using the FS module
- And much more
Sorting Capabilities in Container Lists
- Introducing a new functionality: the addition of a property in Container lists to facilitate sorting on a column. This addition enables effortless and swift sorting of data, allowing users to arrange information in either ascending or descending order with ease.
Rocket MX and Automation Hub
Improved Support experience
- Need swift assistance with Hub-related issues? Now, you have the option to download a comprehensive support package containing essential troubleshooting logs and hub logs from Apache Tomcat. This empowers you with the necessary resources for a more efficient support experience.
PostgreSQL upgrade
- The PostgreSQL for the Hub database is now updated to version 13.12.
Rocket MX and Automation Workbench
OpenJDK upgrade
- The Java OpenJDK version in the workbench upgraded from version 11 to version 17.
Other component upgrades
- Libssh2 has been upgraded to version 1.11.0 to mitigate a known vulnerability.
- The EGit plugins have been upgraded from 6.4 to 6.7.
- Curl has been upgraded to 8.4.0 to secure against a known vulnerability.
Thank you for trusting your business to Rocket Software. Together, we power legendary outcomes for your company and your customers.
Detailed release notes for v10.4.0 can be found here: Rocket® Process Insights, Rocket® API, Rocket® Modern Experience (Desktop Edition) and Rocket® Modern Experience (Web Edition)
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Nikesh Zalte
Product Manager, App Modernization
Rocket Software
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