Chapter 5. Deprecated components

In Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.13 release, the distribution files for Red Hat Decision Manager will be replaced with Red Hat Process Automation Manager files. Note that there will not be any change to the Red Hat Decision Manager subscription and the support entitlements and fees will remain the same. Red Hat Decision Manager is a subset of Red Hat Process Automation Manager, and Red Hat Decision Manager subscribers will continue to receive full support for the decision management and optimization capabilities. The business process management (BPM) capabilities are exclusive to Red Hat Process Automation Manager and will be available for use by Red Hat Decision Manager subscribers but with development support services only. Red Hat Decision Manager subscribers can upgrade to a full Red Hat Process Automation Manager subscription at any time to receive full support for BPM features.

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is deprecated in Red Hat Decision Manager and features and will be removed in a future release.

Both OptaPlanner 7 and OptaPlanner 8 are included with Red Hat Decision Manager 7.12, but OptaPlanner 7 is deprecated and might be removed in a future release. For information about migrating your OptaPlanner 7 projects to OptaPlanner 8, see Upgrading your Red Hat build of OptaPlanner projects to OptaPlanner 8.

The following OptaPlanner tooling in Business Central is part of OptaPlanner 7. It is deprecated and might be removed in a future release.

Support for JDK 8 is deprecated in Red Hat Decision Manager and might be removed in a future release.

For a complete list of supported JDK configurations, see Red Hat Decision Manager 7 Supported Configurations.

The legacy kie-pmml dependency was deprecated with Red Hat Decision Manager 7.10.0 and will be replaced in a future Red Hat Decision Manager release. For more information, see Designing a decision service using PMML models.

Support for integration with the OSGi framework is deprecated in Red Hat Decision Manager. It does not receive any new enhancements or features and will be removed in a future release. The decision and process engine integration with the OSGi framework is currently incompatible in Fuse version 7.8. If you intend to use the OSGi framework, continue to use Red Hat Decision Manager version 7.9 with Fuse version 7.7 until Fuse version 7.9 is available and certified.

The Red Hat Decision Manager RuleUnit API is now deprecated due to incompatibility with the Kogito RuleUnit API.

The legacy Test Scenarios tool was deprecated in Red Hat Decision Manager version 7.3.0. It will be removed in a future Red Hat Decision Manager release. Use the new Test Scenarios designer instead.

From Red Hat Decision Manager version 7.5, images and templates for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.x are deprecated. The deprecated images and templates are not supported with new features but remain available until the end of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 3.x support. For more information about the full support lifecycle phase for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 3.x, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy (non-current versions).

Consider deploying Red Hat Decision Manager using the operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x.