Adapter environment

Before installing, configuring, and using the adapter, you must understand its environment requirements.

Broker compatibility

The adapter framework that an adapter uses must be compatible with the version of the integration broker (or brokers) with which the adapter is communicating. Version 1.3.x of the Adapter for i2 is supported on the following adapter framework and integration brokers:

See Release Notes for any exceptions.

For instructions on installing the integration broker and its prerequisites, see the following documentation:

Required hardware and software

The adapter requires the following hardware and software:

Processing locale-dependent data

The connector has been internationalized so that it can support delivery of double-byte character sets (DBCS) going into an interface that also supports double-byte character sets, and deliver message text in the specified language. When the connector transfers data from a location that uses one character code to a location that uses a different code set, it performs character conversion to preserve the meaning of the data.

The Java run time environment within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represents data in the Unicode character code set. Unicode contains encodings for characters in most known character code sets (both single-byte and multibyte). Most components in the WebSphere business integration system are written in Java; therefore, when data is transferred between most integration components, there is no need for character conversion.

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