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BPEL process migration: Changes to the descriptive and quality-of-service properties of process instances
If the new version of the BPEL process contains only changes to the descriptive, or quality-of-service properties, or both, you can migrate existing process instances at any time during the process navigation.
The following property changes are supported.
- Processes
- Automatically delete the process after completion
- Business relevant
- Continue on Error
- Description
- Display name
- Documentation
- Ignore missing data
- Suppress join failure
- Activities
- Business relevant
- Continue on Error
- Description
- Display name
- Documentation
- Suppress join failure
- Transactional Behavior
- Links
- Description
- Display name
- Documentation
- Variables
- Business relevant
In addition, you can change the monitor event specifications for process constructs, such as activities, and variables.