Release Notes for Version 3.2.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Ariba Buyer

These release notes cover release information for version 3.2.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for Ariba Buyer. They contain the following sections:

New in this release Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration
Product fix history Limitations
Backward compatibility Known problems and workarounds
Product compatibility Documentation
Hardware and software requirements

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.

New in this release

This section lists the new features and improvements made in this release.

Refer to the Adapter for Ariba Buyer User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.

Product fix history

Between release 3.1.0 and 3.2.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.

Tracking
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Description
 23870 The integration event returned an error message if the response business object of a request-response integration event contained no data (that is, if the PullSchema attribute had no child objects).
 23871 The Ariba Buyer application failed to start if the machine specified in the ConnectorURL parameter of Parameters.table was not accessible on the network.

Backward compatibility

Version 3.2.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Ariba Buyer is compatible with version 8.1 of Ariba Buyer, but it is not compatible with version 8.0 of Ariba Buyer. For version 8.0 of Ariba Buyer, you must use version 3.1.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Ariba Buyer.

Product compatibility

Version 3.2.0 of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Ariba Buyer requires either WebSphere InterChange Server, version 4.2.x, or WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, version 2.4.0.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, version 2.4.0, is supported on the following integration brokers:

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information for links to those guides.

Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration

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 based on 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 Ariba Buyer User Guide.

Limitations

WebSphere MQ cannot send messages over 100 MB long. If the solution calls for large data sets to be passed between applications, select a transport other than JMS.
Business object names and business object attribute names cannot exceed 80 characters.

Known problems and workarounds

The following problem has been found in this release.

Tracking
number
Description
31633 In a UNIX environment, a connector_manager_adapter script is generated by the installer program. The script references adapterEnv.sh, which was introduced with version 2.4.0 of Adapter Framework. If you are running an older version of Adapter Framework, adapterEnv is not available. To run this version of the adapter with an older version of the framework, change the reference from adapterEnv.sh to CWSharedEnv.sh in the connector_manager_adapter script.

Documentation

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:

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.

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