Downloading and installing IBM Business Process Manager

Introduction:

To use IBM® Process Designer to develop IBM Business Process Manager Process applications, first download and install Process Designer. Always download and install Process Designer from the instance of IBM BPM on Cloud that you are working in.

Overview

Ensure that your user ID is permitted to access the development environment with the tw_author permission in the BPM Group Management window. Your IBM BPM on Cloud account administrator can verify and change your access permissions for you.

1.      On a local computer, log in to IBM BPM on Cloud (https://www.bpm.ibmcloud.com).

2.      Click the Library tab.

3.      Download Process Designer.

a.       Ensure that your browser is configured to allow downloads.

b.      From the Process Center component in the development environment, click the IBM Process Designer link.

c.       From the IBM Process Designer window, click the Download link.

4.      Extract the files from the IBM Process Designer.zip file to a convenient directory and open that directory.

5.      Install Process Designer. The IBM Process Designer.zip package contains the following batch files, one of which you must run to install Process Designer, depending on the configuration of your Windows operating system:

installProcessDesigner_admin.bat

If you are signed in to your Windows workstation as the administrator, run installProcessDesigner_admin.bat by right-clicking installProcessDesigner_admin.bat and choosing Run as administrator.

installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat

If you are in a secure Windows environment where you cannot sign in to the workstation as an administrator, run installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat.

If you are not sure what your security configuration is, double-click the installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat file.

Attention: You must run either installProcessDesigner_admin.bat or installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat to complete the installation. Do not use IBM Installation Manager to install Process Designer otherwise the installation will be incomplete.

6.      Once the installation starts in command prompt it will show like below.

 

After installation successful you can see the below message on Command prompt.  

7.      When the installation completes, Process Designer is configured to connect to the IBM BPM on Cloud instance that you downloaded it from. An icon for Process Designer might be on the desktop or available from the Start menu. If you cannot find that icon, double-click the executable file from your main hard disk in a location like the following location: C:\IBM\ProcessDesigner\v8.5\eclipse.exe.

8.      Start Process Designer.

9.      Log in to Process Designer. Provide the same user ID and password that you use to sign in to IBM BPM on Cloud.

Tip: If you cannot log in to Process Designer, you might not be assigned to the IBM BPM tw_authors group. Ask your account administrator to adjust your group membership. Then try again.

10.      When you see Getting Started with IBM Process Designer, you are ready to use Process Designer.

Conclusion

Follow IBM BPM good practices for development. Also, look at the log files while you are testing to find issues in your applications and remove old instances when they are complete.

If you have difficulty with Process Designer, use the following troubleshooting information: Troubleshooting Process Designer.

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