Before installing the adapter, you must understand its environmental requirements as described in the following sections:
The adapter framework that an adapter uses must be compatible with the versions of the integration brokers with which the adapter is communicating. Version 1.0.x of the adapter for TCP/IP is supported on the following adapter framework and with the following integration brokers:
See the Release Notes for any exceptions.
Note: For instructions on installing the integration broker and its prerequisites, see the following documentation. For WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS), see the System Installation Guide for UNIX or for Windows. For message brokers (WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker, WebSphere MQ Integrator, and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker), see Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Message Brokers, and the installation documentation for the message broker. Some of this can be found at the following Web site:
http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/mqfamily/library/manualsa/.
For WebSphere Application Server, see Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Application Server and the documentation at
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/library.html.
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.