Installation and usage

This section discusses the following:

Installing the ODAs for MAS

To install the ODAs for ADABAS, CICS, DB2 or VSAM, use the corresponding adapter Installer. For example, installing IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for ADABAS will also install the ADABAS ODA. Follow the instructions in the System Installation Guide for UNIX or for Windows. When the installation is complete, the following files are installed in the directory on your system where you have installed the product, for example:

Note:
Except as otherwise noted, this document uses backslashes (\) as the convention for directory paths. For UNIX installations, substitute slashes (/) for backslashes. All product pathnames are relative to the directory where the product is installed on your system.

Before using the ODAs for MAS

Before you can run the ODAs for ADABAS, CICS, DB2 or VSAM, you must:

After installing the JDBC driver and setting configuration values in the shell or batch file, you must do the following to generate business objects:

  1. Launch the ODA.
  2. Launch Business Object Designer.
  3. Follow a six-step process in Business Object Designer to configure and run the ODA.

The following sections describe these steps in detail.

Launching the ODAs for MAS

You can launch the ODAs for ADABAS, CICS, DB2 or VSAM with the startup script appropriate for your operating system.

UNIX:

start_ADABASODA.sh

Windows:

start_ADABASODA.bat

You configure and run the ODAs using Business Object Designer. Business Object Designer locates each ODA by the name specified in the AGENTNAME variable of each script or batch file. The default ODA name for the connector is ADABASODA, CICSODA, DB2ODA or VSAMODA.

Running multiple instances of the ODAs for MAS

It is recommended that you change the name of the ODA when you run multiple instances of it. To create additional uniquely named instances of the ODA for ADABAS, CICS, DB2 or VSAM:

It is recommended that you prefix each name with the name of the host machine when you run ODA instances on different machines.

Figure 6 illustrates the window in Business Object Designer from which you select the ODA to run.

Working with error and trace message files

Error and trace message files (the default for DB2 is DB2ODAAgent.txt) are located in \ODA\messages\, which is under the product directory. These files use the following naming convention:

AgentNameAgent.txt

If you create multiple instances of the ODA script or batch file and provide a unique name for each represented ODA, you can have a message file for each ODA instance. Alternatively, you can have differently named ODAs use the same message file. There are two ways to specify a valid message file:

Important:
Failing to correctly specify the message file's name when you configure the ODA causes it to run without messages. For more information on specifying the message file name, see "Configuring Initialization properties".

During the configuration process, you specify:

Table 37 describes these values.

Table 37. Tracing levels

Trace level Description
0 Logs all errors
1 Traces all entering and exiting messages for method
2 Traces the ODA's properties and their values
3 Traces the names of all business objects
4 Traces details of all spawned threads
5 * Indicates the ODA initialization values for all of its properties
* Traces a detailed status of each thread that the ODA spawned
* Traces the business object definition dump

For information on where you configure these values, see "Configuring Initialization properties".

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