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Deprecated and discontinued features


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Deprecated features

Deprecated features are still available in the product or service. However, they are no longer under active development and might be discontinued from the product in the future. We encourage you to plan and implement the recommended change.

Deprecated feature

Summary

Virtual Agent mode (Jenn)

BMC Virtual Chat in the mid-tier is no longer supported. You cannot enable Virtual Agent mode (Jenn) from version 21.3.05.

For more information, see Statement-of-direction-End-of-life-for-virtual-agent-Jenn-in-Live-Chat.

Support Agent Console

The Support Agent Console in the mid-tier Server is not supported from version 19.08.

Integration points and automatic incident creation

Only the Self Service-Related Contact Info and Self Service Relate Context integration points remain available. All other integration points that were available in BMC Virtual Chat version 9.1.02 are disabled from version 19.08.


Discontinued features

Discontinued features are no longer available in the product or service.

Version

Unavailable feature

Summary

21.3.x

21.3

21.05

21.02

20.08

20.02

19.11

19.08

Ability to send email to an end user from within a chat session.

Support agents cannot send emails to end users from Live Chat. Agents can send email from Smart IT or BMC Helix Business Workflows .

Capacity-based auto accept

The capacity-based auto accept feature does not work.

 

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