Statement of direction: End-of-life plan for support of custom applications built on Angular JS for BMC Helix Innovation Suite
Background
While Angular JS is a powerful framework, it has reached its end of life (EOL) and is no longer actively maintained by Google. This EOL status has implications for the security, stability, and long-term viability of applications built on this technology stack.
Statement of Direction
BMC acknowledges the necessity of a gradual transition away from Angular JS-based custom applications.
We are committed to phasing out support for custom applications built using Angular JS for BMC Helix Innovation Suite, with an official end of support planned to start with the next major release of BMC Helix Innovation Suite. We will continue to support Angular JS runtime and view designer for previous releases and patches.
Transition to Angular
Starting with BMC Helix Innovation Suiteversion 21.02, the option to create new Angular JS-based custom applications and libraries was discontinued. Instead, the default choice for new custom applications is Angular. However, if you have already developed your custom applications using Angular JS, we recommend you to move to Angular.
Angular runtime has been accessible since BMC Helix Innovation Suiteversion 21.3, and BMC strongly encourages customers with existing custom applications in Angular JS to consider rewriting their applications in Angular.
FAQs for end-of-life Support of custom applications built by using Angular JS on BMC Helix Innovation Suite
How to determine which applications and libraries are built by using Angular JS?
Perform the following steps to determine the applications and libraries that are built by using Angular JS:
- Login to the BMC Helix Innovation Studio by using the Google Chrome browser.
- Open the browser developer tools by pressing F12.
In the Console tab, paste and run the following code:
fetch('/api/rx/application/datapage?dataPageType=com.bmc.arsys.rx.application.bundle.datapage.BundleDescriptorDataPageQuery&pageSize=
-1&startIndex=0&includeNonLicensedBundles=true')
.then(response => response.json())
.then(dataPage => {
console.log(dataPage.data.filter(x => x.containsJavaScript
&& !x.id.match(/^com.bmc./) && x.id != 'standardlib').map(x => x.id));
})
.catch(error => {
console.error('Error:', error);
});The following screenshot shows the code snippet in the browser console. The output is a list of IDs of the coded applications and libraries that use Angular JS.
