Apex proposed an "Instance Migration" approach. This uses a tool that reads process instance data from a legacy environment and re-creates the legacy process instance in a new target environment without the need for any direct database migration.
The Apex team worked with the customer team to create a Process Instance migration tool that reads Process Instance data from a legacy environment and re-creates the legacy Process Instance in a new target environment.
IBM has officially announced the end of support for IBM BPM 8.6.x on September 30, 2020. It’s time to take advantage of new features, tools and a new interface.