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Contents
Setting Context Sensitive Help Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Closed Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Setting Context Sensitive Help Preferences

This procedure explains how to change your help preferences in TIBCO Business Studio to access
context sensitive help from a local directory or from an internal web server, if you have placed the
documents under it.
Prerequisites
Before setting context help preferences you must download the documentation for your product from
the FTP site provided by your TIBCO representative. Copy the documentation zip file to a local
directory, or to an internal web server and then unzip the file.
Procedure
1. In TIBCO Business Studio, click Window > Preferences. On Mac OS X, click TIBCO Business
Studio > Preferences.
2. In the Preferences dialog, click BusinessWorks > Help.
3. Select Custom Location and then click Browse to select the html directory where you unzipped the
documentation, or provide the URL to the html directory on your internal web server.
4. Click Apply and then click OK.

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New Features
This topic describes the new features added in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks product.
Release 6.1.0
The following are the highlighted features in this release.
Native Eclipse Design-time

Brand new Business Studio Welcome Page to guide users

How to create new applications

Access to Documentation and TIBCommunity

One-click loading of key ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Samples, opening the Main Process, and
ready access to sample documentation

BW Eclipse Design Perspective tailored for integration, web and mobile application design

Product Inventory view, which provides a catalogue of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks out-of-the-box

Palettes and Shared Resources as well those from installed BusinessWorks Plug-in Products

Support for Process level Default Binding, which is especially useful for invoking external services
from sub-processes without configuring them as Component Reference

Group with Iterate in Process design

Support of Long type in Module Property definition

Offers over 65 out-of-the-box project samples to demonstrate usage scenarios

Versatile Runtime Administration Framework

Product Inventory view in BW Enterprise Administration UI and command line utility

Administration Web UI support for configuration update to AppSpaces, AppNodes

Supports reporting of commands execution history performed from both Web UI and command line
tools for auditing and traceability purposes

Enterprise Administration Framework access through REST/JSON API

Support of TIBCO Hawk for monitoring and management

Release 6.0.1
The following are the highlighted features in this release.
Versatile Runtime Administration Framework

Administration Web UI support for:

Creating and deleting of Domain, AppSpace, and AppNode

Uploading and deploying Enterprise Archives (EARs)

Release 6.0.0
The following are the highlighted features in this release.

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Native Eclipse Design time

Process Designer

Shared modules for modular design of applications

Refactoring tools such as Undo, Redo, and Rename

Design time tooling for migrating BusinessWorks 5.x projects

Offers over 50 out-of-the-box project sample to demonstrate usage scenarios

Graphical Modeler for Zero-code Development

User-friendly gestures for commonly performed tasks

Multi-operation process definitions

Support for Process Scopes

Support for Event handlers

Support for Exception handlers

Support for Conversations

Visual process debugger

Design time hot deploy debugging paradigm for agile development

Zero-resistance to Coding with Java Development Tooling

Full-fledged Java coding and debugging with Eclipse Java IDE

Ability to develop Java/OSGi modules

Ability to develop and debug BusinessWorks Process and Java code in a single IDE

First Class Support for REST/JSON

Wizard to convert resource definitions to testable APIs and services in a few clicks

Option to choose between XML or JSON for resource representation

Integrated Web UI for documentation and testing

Easily consumable from web and mobile applications in Javascript, Python, Ruby, and so on

Versatile Runtime Administration Framework

Multiple application runtime container

Elastic distributed runtime powered by in-memory data grid

Elastic distributed administration infrastructure powered by in-memory data grid

User-friendly Web UI integrated with TIBCO Enterprise Administrator

User-friendly UI for navigating large set of complex administration assets

User-friendly UI for deploying ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and Java Applications

Powerful command line tools and console with scripting and interactive modes

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Open Platform

Activity SDK to Develop Custom Plug-ins and Extensions

OSGi Java development

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Closed Issues
The closed issues information is organized as per Administration, Binding, General, Migration, and
Palette basis. These are the closed issues for the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.1.0 release.

Administration
This topic list the closed issues related to Administration.
Closed Issues in 6.1.0
Key

Description

AMBW-10204

Under certain circumstances, Process configured with Message Sequencing

capability encountered ClassCastException at Runtime.

AMBW-12019

Clicking on the Machines tab on the left hand navigation pane displays agents
and installations. These lists were not filtered by the selected domain and
showed more entries than the actual entries of the domain.

AMBW-12132

Fixed an issue where clicking on the AppSpace link when looking at an

AppInstance of an Application led to an empty page.

AMBW-12910

Change in behavior. Previously (in 6.0.0) the runtime status of an AppSpace

would show as Stopped even when there is at least one AppNode, but less
AppNodes than minNodes. This is now changed to Degraded. This was an
omission in the previous version.
For example, AppSpace a1 has minNodes 2 and 1 AppNode n1.
In 6.0.0: Status of a1 was Stopped. In 6.0.1: Shows correct Status of a1 as
Degraded.

AMBW-8763

utility did not create the workspace, if the workspace path included
double-byte characters.

bwdesign

Binding
This topic lists closed issues related to Binding.
Closed Issues in 6.1.0
Key

Description

AMBW-13036

The HTTP Port was not released when the REST application was undeployed.

AMBW-12155

Component Processes could not be implemented with services or public

references that used WSDLs defined in shared modules.

AMBW-9484

REST Binding now works with elements of Anonymous Complex Types.

AMBW-10163

The addition of a new operation to an existing REST Service that is configured

with parameters (for example, Path Parameters, Query Parameters and so on) did
not work properly.

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General
This topic lists the closed issues related to General issues.
Closed Issues in 6.1.0
Key

Description

AMBW-11874

Renaming the root element of the schema in the Input Editor and Output
Editor resulted in blank editor.

AMBW-4627

The process property configuration for Start Time for the Timer activity threw
an error.

AMBW-6221

Pasting text into the XSLT source text field did not work.

AMBW-10553

Salesforce activities configured with coercions did not work.

AMBW-11711

The following exception was thrown when invoking external MDM Web
Services:
com.tibco.pvm.dataexch.xml.util.exceptions.PmxException: PVMXML-106024: Cannot find XML data type:{http://www.tibco.com/cim/
services/adminservice/wsdl/2.0}LoginRequest

A similar exception was reported for projects that comtained schemas with
multiple <include> statements, either directly or indirectly, to the same
schema.
AMBW-8815

Specifying an XSD schema in the input of the operation for a service operation
did not show the XSD schema in the Input tab of the Reply activity for that
operation.

AMBW-11250

The imported projects showed error markers that affected the validation
adversely.

AMBW-11936

Referencing service WSDLs defined in a shared module resulted in runtime

errors.

AMBW-11799

Checkpoint activity contained in a group did not recover correctly at the engine
recovery, especially an iteration group, such as For Each, While, Repeat, Repeat
on Error, and so on.

AMBW-11893

Validation messages were visible even when the Select Value option for
Module Shared Variable and Job Shared Variable was selected.

AMBW-12039

Conversation initiation did not function at runtime for the signal reply activities
and worked only for Receive or Signal-In activities. You can now initiate
Conversation with Reply activities of JMS and HTTP.

AMBW-12087

Fixed a validation error issue for a scenario where TIBCO ActiveMatrix

BusinessWorks project contained multiple schemas with same namespace. An
element from such a schema was used in the "Data Format" shared resource. A
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process containing Parse/Render activity
referred to this "Data Format" shared resource.

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Key

Description

AMBW-12157

When adding a dependency on a shared module, the module was not revalidated automatically. Therefore, the errors that were fixed by introducing the
new dependency, were still reported (in the Problems View).

AMBW-12158

When removing a resource such as an XML Schema, WSDL Resource, and so

on, the activities with references to the entities that are part of those resources
did not become invalid.

AMBW-11250

The imported projects showed error markers that adversely affected the
validation.

AMBW-10212

Removing the Sequencing Key from the Process Starter activity, threw a
at runtime.

NullPointerException

AMBW-10072

Setting the value of a newly created application property did not work
properly. When the resource was saved, the value was lost.

AMBW-10129

After creating a REST Service, a Component <ComponentName>

configured. exception was thrown at design time.

AMBW-10196

Launching BW Debugger with unsaved Processes sometimes triggered

NullPointerException.

is not

Palette
This topic lists the Closed Issues related to Palettes.
Closed Issues in 6.1.0
General Activities Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12089

Checkpoint activity migration is now supported.

HTTP Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12067

Write to File check box on HTTP Receiver activity is now supported.

JAVA Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12102

The Java Invoke Method activity showed an input configuration error. An

unexpected output, "Account" was thrown at design time for XML To Java
activity.

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Key

Description

AMBW-11889

TIBCO Business Studio hung while building a workspace when the class was
selected or the Reload button was clicked in the Java To XML or XML To Java
activity.

AMBW-12678

Output tab of Java To XML activity did not populate, if the Java class contained
Arrays or Wrapper Class Objects.

AMBW-12033

Java Collections is now supported for Java Invoke.

JDBC Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12649

JDBC Connection profile could not be created unless the DB activity was
dropped on the Process Editor.

AMBW-10926

A Procedure or Function when selected in JDBC Call Procedure activity,

displayed the schema name in the Catalog or Package field, instead of displaying
it in the Schema field.

Rendezvous Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-11966

Checkpointing feature is now supported for the processes that have Rendezvous
Subscriber as the Process Starter.

Shared Resource
Key

Description

AMBW-13333

Heartbleed vulnerability addressed.

Fix included updates to address the heartbeat extension vulnerability referenced
in CVE-2014-0160 and US-CERT VU#720951. This specifically included the
OpenSSL 1.0.1g libraries.

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Known Issues
This topic describes the Known Issues added in version 6.x of the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.
The known issues information is organized as per Administration, Binding, General, Migration, and
Palette basis.

Administration
This topic lists the Known Issues related to Administration.
Key

Description

AMBW-12126

Summary: Applications do not retain the state when AppNode is restarted.

Workaround: None.

AMBW-13910

Summary: Updating AppSpace and Application configuration may result in

errors if the case of Domain, AppSpace, and Application, name is changed.
Workaround: Do not change the case of Domain, AppSpace, and Application
names when updating the configuration.

AMBW-8481

Summary: (On Windows) The bwagent listen port is not released when the
process is killed. When the bwappNodes are launched again by the bwagent,
the process continues to run.
Workaround: Always stop the bwagent process gracefully by calling
bwagent.exe stop from the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.x
installation bin folder. Should the bwagent still fail to allocate the ports on
restart, simply wait for 10 minutes before trying again. This allows the
Operating System to allocate the ports to a new process.

AMBW-13067

Summary: Deployment of an application with an invalid profile will fail the

deployment, but the UI is showing an application screen with errors. The same
applies to other scenarios that cause the deployment to fail.
Workaround: Do not use invalid applications.

AMBW-13069

Summary: Starting an AppSpace without any AppNodes shows the running

status as Starting instead of Degraded.
Workaround: Refresh the page to get the status updated/reflected properly.

Binding
This topic lists the Known Issues related to Binding.
Key

Description

AMBW-12668

Summary: On closing and re-opening the REST BookStore Sample, the

following warning message displays.
The file(Books.bwp) has changed on file system" warning message
pops up.

Workaround: None

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Key

Description

AMBW-13955

Summary: REST Binding is lost from the components when the process is
removed from the component containing the REST service and added again.
Workaround: None

AMBW-12108

Summary: REST Service green chevron icon is not displayed on the process
canvas after REST Service is created.
Workaround: Close and reopen the project.

AMBW-13834

Summary: "TIBCO-BW-PALETTE-REST-2000027:Client received a 4xx

exception is thrown at
runtime for the Resource Service Path with parameters, when a REST Service
is renamed.
response for invocation at resource path"

Workaround: None
AMBW-13904

Summary: lrestdoc command always yields the discovery URL using

localhost as the hostname.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-14001

Summary: When creating a project with a REST Resource or REST Binding

Type, the component or REST binding in Module Descriptors > Components
is not accessible.
Workaround: Close and reopen the project.

AMBW-13775

Summary: JSON to XML conversion fails and results in malformed JSON (or
XML), when the JSON document that has a terminal 'array type' node inside a
container type JSON node results in malformed JSON.
Workaround: None

AMBW-13999

Summary: Deleting a REST Component results in permanent loss of the

Bindings.
Workaround: If after deletion the artifacts are not saved, quit TIBCO Business
Studio without saving and this will not delete the bindings. However if
artifacts are saved after deleting a binding or a component, it cannot be readded.

AMBW-13485

Summary: REST Swagger UI does not support browsers like Internet

Explorer.
Workaround: Use Chrome or Firefox browsers.

AMBW-13807

Summary: REST Service Binding and Swagger UI do not support Optional

Query Parameters at runtime even if they are defined as optional at Design
time.
Workaround: None

AMBW-13572

Summary: Swagger UI for some use cases does not show the correct error
code in case of Internal Server errors on the Server side.
Workaround: Check the raw message that contains the correct error code.

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Key

Description

AMBW-13890

Summary: When two or more ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks processes in a

module contain the same processReference name and at least one of the
processsReference is configured with Binding Reference (Binding configured
at the process level) and rest are configured with external Binding References
(Binding configured at the component level), then incorrect Service Provider is
called.
Workaround: Make the processReference names unique in the module.

AMBW-8982

Summary: Changing the Resource name in the REST service Bindings tab,
does not update the Resource Service Path.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-11387

Summary: In Swagger documentation, non-ASCII characters in model schema

and parameters are garbled.
Workaround: Remove garbled character before pressing the Try it Out button.

AMBW-11408

Summary: Non-ASCII characters in the generated Swagger JSON file are

garbled.
Workaround: Remove garbled characters before pressing the Try it Out
button.

AMBW-11542

Summary: REST Swagger UI does not support Internet Explorer browser.

Workaround: Use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

AMBW-11965

Summary: REST Bindings tab values are not serialized correctly if they are
edited from Bindings tab of the REST service on the process.
Workaround: Update values in the Module Descriptors > Components >
Bindings.

AMBW-11974

Summary: Resolution of SOAP transport type does not work for SOAP over
HTTP, if SOAP over JMS and SOAP over HTTP bindings are in the same
process.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-12156

Summary: When you Drag and Drop a Process from a Shared Module into an
Application Module, the Application that contains the Application Module is
not updated to contain the Shared Module.
Workaround: Explicitly add the Shared Module to the Application.

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General
This topic lists the Known Issues related to General issues.
Key

Description

AMBW-13897

Summary: Unable to access the Welcome page, if it is closed after launching

TIBCO Business Studio.
Workaround: To access the Welcome page, either select Help >
BusinessWorks Samples or click File > Switch Workspace > Other....

AMBW-13936

Summary: Iterate Group cannot iterate over a local element.

Workaround: Update schema to make element global or do not use local
element in the configuration.

AMBW-13996

Summary: An Illegal Argument Exception is intermittently thrown when

launching debugger.
Workaround: Launch the Businessworks Debugger using the Debug
Configurations dialog box.

AMBW-12785

Summary: When trying to exit TIBCO Business Studio before saving the
process, throws a java.lang.NullPointerException error.
Workaround: None

AMBW-14005

Summary: Testing custom palettes does not work with the run/debug
shortcuts (toolbar and process right mouse popup menu).
Workaround: Use the Run/Debug launch configuration dialog and press the
Run or Debug button on that dialog to launch a test engine

AMBW-13673

Summary: Schema is not populated in Input Editor/Output Editor if there is no

targetNamespace in the schema.
Workaround: Provide targetNamespace in the schema.

AMBW-13959

Summary: When running TIBCO Business Studio on a Linux platform, you

may observe the following issues:

Icons for the samples does not show up on the Welcome page

In the Mapper, help contents for the XPath functions does not show up

Workaround: These issues indicate that the Eclipse SWT browser is not
configured (or not installed). A supported native browser (WebKitGTK and/or
XULRunner) must be installed. To get a list of supported browsers, see http://
www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux
To install WebKitGTK, do the following on Ubuntu Linux:
sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0.0

On other supported Linux flavours, run the equivalent of the above command
to install WebKitGTK.

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Key

Description

AMBW-13823

Summary: Directory browser dialog in BW Context Sensitive Help preference

setting page does not consistently popup on Mac OS X 10.9.2
Workaround: Copy and paste the directory path into the configuration field
instead of using directory browser to pick it.

AMBW-13942

Summary: When uninstalling a set of products in a TIBCO_HOME that

involves TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks
Plug-in for CICS, ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Data Conversion
and ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for WebSphere MQ products all at
once, the un-installation has the possibility of uninstalling ActiveMatrix
BusinessWorks first. This fails the uninstallation of the remaining ActiveMatrix
BusinessWorks Plugin products.
Workaround: In this case, first uninstall all BusinessWorks Plugins before
uninstalling BusinessWorks because the uninstallation of BusinessWorks
Plugins depends on the uninstallation scripts from BusinessWorks.

AMBW-13122

Summary: Palette samples readme.link files do not display the downloaded

sample help page on Windows in TIBCO Business Studio and those help pages
cannot be displayed by the Internet Explorer browser on Windows.
Core and Bindings sample readme.link files are not affected.
Workaround: View the downloaded palette sample help files using a different
browser on Windows, for example, Firefox, Chrome.

AMBW-12490

Summary: Under certain circumstances, substitution types do not resolve

properly in the mapper. The mapper shows errors for them.
Workaround: Try closing and reopening the project. If that doesn't solve the
issue, try closing and reopening Eclipse. If the errors still persist, do project
clean (that is. go to Project Menu and click on "Clean...").

AMBW-13119

Summary: The LDAP SSL connection does not work with the Administrative
user.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-13090

Summary:
com.tibco.bw.core.runtime.ActivityInputValidationException

exception is thrown for a variable of Long dataType, if the Long value is

greater than 6 digits.
Workaround: Ensure that the Long value does not exceed 6 digits.
AMBW-10455

Summary: Schema cache does not parse schemas where the target namespace
contains spaces in it.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-12946

Summary: Substitution for " (any element) *" defined as part of the inline
schema for a WSDL does not resolve newly added elements.
Workaround: None.

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Key

Description

AMBW-12703

Summary: When renaming a process service, the references do not get

updated accordingly to such a process in the same or other processes.
Workaround: Open the processes that contain references to the renamed
process, and edit them to reflect the new name.

AMBW-12426

Summary: Shared Resource names should be composed of the package name,

followed by the file name (without the extension). This is a convention that the
tools try to preserve. However, if the name of a shared resource is edited or
changed, it sometimes neither renames the file nor adjusts the package to
reflect this convention.
Workaround: Manually move or rename the shared resource file and package
to match the existing name in the editor.

AMBW-11375

Summary: When a user changes the Application Project Name, the application
name in the Name field of the application's Overview page editor sometimes
does not change to stay in sync.
Workaround: Open the Overview page of the application and type in the
correct name.

AMBW-11695

Summary: EAR file generation for a project containing Java source with multibyte characters fails due to compilation errors.
Workaround: This EAR file generation failure caused by the compilation
errors in the java source code can be addressed by setting the default encoding
for Studio to "UTF-8". The first step is to figure out the current encoding used
by Studio.
1. In TIBCO Business Studio, click Installation Details in the About TIBCO
ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks dialog box.
2. Click on the Configuration tab.
3. Search for file.encoding. The value set for this property is the default
encoding for Business Studio.
4. Change this value to UTF-8.
5. Open this file <TIBCO_HOME>/studio/3.6/eclipse/
TIBCOBusinessStudio.ini.
6. On Mac, drill down further into the package contents <TIBCO_HOME>/
studio/3.6/eclipse/TIBCOBusinessStudio/Contents/MacOS/
TIBCOBusinessStudio.ini.

7. In this ini file, set the property -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8.

8. Restart Business Studio and confirm that the default encoding has changed
to UTF-8.
AMBW-11815

Summary: Module Shared Variable cannot initialized with XML file, if the
XML file contains double-byte characters.
Workaround: None.

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Key

Description

AMBW-11554

Summary: Unable to use the Set Explicit Nil check box in the mapper.
Workaround: Map (either by dragging from the source tree or using the XPath
expression in the Edit Statement pane) to the target element. You can then
select the Set Explicit Nil check box. This will remove the mapping, except for
the Explicit Nil.

AMBW-11936

Summary: Referencing service WSDLs defined in a shared module may result

in runtime errors.
Workaround: When creating the Reference use drag-and-drop to add the subprocess invoke to the main process. Dragging the WSDL itself causes this
problem.

AMBW-12059

Summary: After using bwinstall to install the third party drivers, the driver
does not get picked up when the BWApplication is launched in TIBCO
Business Studio.
Workaround: Open the BWApplication. Launch configuration and click on the
Bundles tab. This will reload the launch configuration, if any new bundles are
added to the configuration from outside eclipse.

AMBW-11874

Summary: Renaming the root element of the schema in the Input Editor and
Output Editor results in blank editor.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-11923

Summary: After importing the project, the schema is lost from the Output tab
of the Parse Data activity.
Workaround: Either close and reopen the project or exit and restart TIBCO
Business Studio.

AMBW-11884

Summary: Multiple REST services cannot be selected in the Components tab

of an application module.
Workaround: Close and reopen the project.

AMBW-11595

Summary: Adding an AE activity to a BusinessWorks process encounters a

NullPointerException.

Workaround: None.
AMBW-10923

Summary: When creating an application module for the first time allows
"hyphen" in the package name. However, when creating application module
again, gives not a valid java identifier validation message.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-11250

Summary: Importing an existing Application Module results in missing Input

and Output schema.
Workaround: Use Project > Clean to refresh unresolved schema after
importing projects.

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Key

Description

AMBW-7185

Summary: current-group() function is not available in the Data Source after

adding the ForEach Group xslt statement.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-6221

Summary: Pasting text into the XSLT source text field does not work.
Workaround: Setting the system property
com.tibco.xml.mapper.xslt.edit is set to true, the XSLT text field is
editable, and a Parse button is provided for re-creating the mapper UI tree
from the modified XSLT.
Property is -Dcom.tibco.xml.mapper.xslt.edit=true

AMBW-10137

Summary: TIBCO ActiveMatrix Platform based products fail to install in the

same TIBCO_HOME as TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.0.0.
Workaround: Installation of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.0.0 and
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Platform based products in the same TIBCO_HOME is
currently not supported.

AMBW-4663

Summary: TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.0 Process names follow

standard Java naming convention.
Workaround: This is per design.

AMBW-11853

Summary: A Process that has an XSLT with a substitution, throws a validation

exception at run-time, unless the process is explicitly importing the XML
Schema.
Workaround: The user should explicitly import the XML Schema in the
process, by using the Add Process Import tool that is available in Process
Properties > Dependencies tab.

Palette
This topic lists the Known Issues related to Palettes.
General Activities Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-4627

Summary: The process property configuration for Start Time for the Timer
activity throws an error.
Workaround: Do not configure the Start Time and End Time fields with
Process Property or Module Property.

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HTTP Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12732

Summary: Dynamic Headers for HTTP send request activity are partially
migrated. The user after migration has to re-map these missing dynamic
header fields by using original ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5x mappings in
reference.
Workaround: Add missing headers manually after migration.

AMBW-13777

Summary: The flag isSSL is not set, if SSL is configured on HTTP resource.
Hence, it is not possible to identify whether SSL is used or not from HTTP
resource object.
Workaround: None

AMBW-11263

Summary: Parameters on the Send HTTP Request activity automatically get

deleted when Directory name is added on the Advance tab as Module
Property.
Workaround: Add the parameters again on the Advance tab.

JAVA Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-5702

Summary: For Java To XML activity, if the java object contains variable with
'char' datatype, then it gets mapped to 'unsignedShort' in the corresponding
XML.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-13526

Summary: In Java To XML activity, the Output tab is not populated correctly,
if Java Class contains nested Object references in different classes.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-12687

Summary: Using a 2D Array as an input parameter to Java Method, throws the

following exception at design time in Java Invoke activity.
Unable to obtain information for the method from the
class .NoSuchMethodException )

Workaround: None.
AMBW-6453

Summary: A runtime exception is thrown for Java to Xml activity when trying
to convert java object containing Collections. For example, List, Set, Map, or its
implementations (ArrayList, and so on).
Workaround: Use Parameterized collections (for example, List<String>) in
the Java code.

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JDBC Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-4297

Summary: JDBC activities do not validate unsupported queries.

Workaround: None.

AMBW-11626

Summary: Unable to set JDBC Call procedure parameters, prepared

parameters and Object as NIL by using the Set Explicit NIL check box.
Workaround: None.

JMS Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-13104

Summary: Body Element structure is not shown in the Input tab of JMS
Request Reply and Send JMS Message activities when the Message Type is
XML Text and the activity also references a JMS Application Properties shared
resource.
Workaround:
1. Open the affected process in a text editor (preferably an XML Text editor).
2. Navigate to the <tibex:Types> element.
3. For every <xsd:schema> element under the <tibex:Types> having target
namespace similar to http://www.tibco.com/namespaces/tnt/plugins/jms,
add <xsd:import namespace="xxx"/> (where xxx is the namespace of the
JMS Application Properties XSD) under the <xsd:schema> element.

Parse Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12473

Summary: Parse Data activity throws a NullPointerExeption for the XSD

namespace collision scenario.
Workaround: None.

Rendezvous Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-12473

Summary: RV subscriber activity does not subscribe the message if output

schema created by XSD schema editor is used. It works fine if the output
schema created Rendezvous activity input/output editor is used.
Workaround: Change the elementFormDefault for the schema element created
using XSD Schema Editor to "unqualified".

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REST and JSON Palette

Key

Description

AMBW-13709

Summary: Specifying a value specified for the Content-Type HTTPHeader as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" in the Input tab of the Invoke REST API
activity, takes application/json or application/xml according to what is selected
in Request or Response Type in the General tab at runtime by default.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-12792

Summary: Invoke REST API activity fails to call, if query parameters include
non-ASCII characters.
Workaround: None

Shared Resources
Key

Description

AMBW-11984

Summary: When a Shared Resource field has a Module Property value, and
that field is changed to Literal and then immediately back to Module Property,
the Module Property choice must be re-selected. The change to Literal Value
removes the Module Property value, but the combo box still retains the old
value. The old Module Property value is not saved in the Shared Resource.
Workaround: Select the Module Property again to save the value.

XML Palette
Key

Description

AMBW-11722

Summary: If in the Input of the Render XML each element is mapped

individually with a corresponding output of Parse XML, "schemas:" gets
prepended before every element.
Workaround: None.

AMBW-12860

Summary: After migration problem markers are seen for "Render-POXML","Map-Data" , "Assign" and "Publish-CompletePO-Message".
Workaround: Close and reopen the project.

AMBW-12999

Summary: For Schemas with mixed content, Render XML adds an extra new
line to the output after each string.
Workaround: None

AMBW-6965

Summary: When the "Input and Output Style" is Tree for the Transform XML
activity, a java.lang.AssertionError: origin cannot be null exception
is thrown.
Workaround: None

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