These release notes cover release information for version 1.1.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for Exchange. They contain the following sections:
Note: Important information about this product may be available in Technical Support Flashes issued after these release notes were published. These can be found on the WebSphere Business Integration support Web site, http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiserver/support. Select the component area of interest and search the flashes section.
This section lists the new features and improvements made in this release.
Refer to the Adapter for Exchange User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.
Between releases 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.
Tracking number |
Description |
24651 | When the connector agent tries to poll
the event store, a dialog box with the following message
appears: Microsoft Outlook - A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No". This occurs if you installed the Outlook e-mail security patch. In Microsoft Exchange Server environments, you can customize the security settings by installing a special Outlook custom form in a public folder and configuring security options for individuals and groups. For details, refer to the Adapter for Exchange User Guide. |
24657 | When you update an item in Outlook that has been created
by a service call request, no event is triggered, even though there
is an event sink for the updated item. This occurs if the GUID of
the connector agent user is not properly set in the Event Listener
configuration file (BIA_Exchange.ini), and if
CwEventUsername or CwAgentUsername or both match the name of the
connector agent user.
For details on properly configuring BIA_Exchange.ini, refer to the Adapter for Exchange User Guide. |
24662 | The child
business object names are no longer hard-coded, but can now be
configured by two connector-specific properties:
If you do not specify these properties (or if their values are blank), they default to the following, respectively:
|
24669 | When processing
an UPDATE service call request, the connector agent no longer sets
attribute values to null when encountering CxIgnore.
Instead, the behavior of CxIgnore is now determined by the SetToNullOnCxIgnore parameter, set at the verb-level ASI. To set it, do the following: 1. SetToNullOnCxIgnore ==true
2. SetToNullOnCxIgnore == false / SetToNullOnCxIgnore not specified
|
30673 | Previously, if an Exchange object originally created by a service call request was updated by a user, the object retrieved during event processing was the object cached from the service call request. This has been fixed, and the user-updated object is now correctly retrieved during event processing. |
31242 | If the user specified a verb-level ASI not recognized by the connector, a NullPointerException was generated and the service call request failed. The NullPointerException problem has been fixed, and the connector now completes the service call request. |
With this release, the MailItem business object definition has
changed. If you are running a previous version of this adapter, you
will need to refresh this business object definition. To do so,
load the file %CROSSWORLDS%\repository\Exchange\2000\MailItem.in
into Business Object Designer and save it to your broker
repository.
There are two major changes in the MailItem business object
definition:
This version of the adapter requires WBIA.jar version 1.5.0 or later because it includes support for guaranteed event delivery (GED).
Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information for links to those guides.
Whether you are installing the software from the CD or downloading it from the Passport Advantage Web site and installing it from a local directory, refer to the appropriate guide for your integration broker:
These guides also include general migration, upgrade, and configuration information.
For hardware and software requirements and configuration information specific to this adapter, refer to the Adapter for Exchange User Guide.
Make sure that you run this version of the adapter with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters run-time version 1.6.0 or later.
The WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API .jar files and the associated scripts (CWConnEnv.bat and CWODAEnv.bat for Windows(R); CWConnEnv.sh and CWODAEnv.sh for UNIX platforms) are installed by the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API. Before installing the adapter, make sure that the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters run time is installed. If the version is not 1.6.0 or later, you must download the latest WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API. This section provides instructions for verifying the API version, downloading the latest version, and enabling the adapter to run on various versions of WebSphere InterChange Server and Adapter Development Kit (ADK).
To check the version of the run time, locate the manifest file (ProductDir\lib\WBIA.jar) and open it in a suitable Java JAR editor. Look for the following lines:
Implementation-Title: "CWConnectorAPI"
Implementation-Version: 1.6.0
The line Implementation-version indicates the installed version of the API. If the version is not 1.6.0 or later, you must download the latest run time.
To download the latest version of the run time:
After you download and install the run time, you should see the following files:
lib\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\3.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.1.1\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.2.0\WBIA.jar
bin\CWConnEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWConnEnv.sh (UNIX)
bin\CWODAEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWODAEnv.sh (UNIX)
connectors\messages\CwConnectorAgentMessages.txt
To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or WebSphere InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:
Windows: In CWConnEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.1.X:
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
UNIX: In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.1.X:
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
Windows: In CWConnEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.2.:
set CWVERSION="4.2"
UNIX: In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.2:
set CWVERSION="4.2"
Windows: In bin\CWODAEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.1.X:
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
UNIX: In bin/CWODAEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.1.X:
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
Windows: In bin\CWODAEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.2:
set CWVERSION="4.2"
UNIX: In bin/CWODAEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to
4.2:
set CWVERSION="4.2"
Product documentation is not included as part of the product package, either by CD or by electronic product distribution. The documentation for this product can be found in the following InfoCenters:
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wicserver/infocenter
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbicollaborations/infocenter (for collaborations)
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiadapters/infocenter
To obtain the product documentation, visit the Web site and download the current documentation set for the release that you are using. Follow the instructions provided on the InfoCenter page to complete the installation.