Release Notes for Version 2.6.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for WebSphere MQ Workflow

These release notes cover release information for version 2.6.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for WebSphere MQ Workflow. These release notes contain the following sections:
New in this release Installation, migration, upgrade, configuration
Product fix history WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Backward compatibility Known problems and workarounds
Hardware and software requirements Documentation

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 release includes the following new features and improvements:

Refer to the Adapter for WebSphere MQ Workflow User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.

Product fix history

Between release 2.5.0 and 2.6.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.

Tracking
number
Description
22245 The sample business object defintion MQWF_SampleItemOrder has the ObjectEventID attribute set as its key, and the business object designer tool cannot perform a save operation on it.
22273 The WebSphere MQ Workflow Adapter examples are out of date and do not refer to 4.2 tools.
24658 The XML DataHandler inserts blanks before and after values.
31930 The business object name should be allowed as a program parameter in MQ Workflow.
32100  The adapter fails to pick up a ProcessTemplateExecuteResponse message in the ReplyTo queue because the correlation ID is not being copied correctly. Fixed in Patch Version 2.5.1.0
33951  The adapter should be modified to support MQ Workflow version 3.5.

Backward compatibility

This version is backward compatible with all versions of the Adapter Development Kit (ADK) and with version 3.2.2 (or higher) of MQ Workflow.

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 Passport Advantage and installing it from a local directory, refer to the appropriate guide:

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 WebSphere MQ Workflow User Guide.

Upgrade notes

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time

Make sure that you run this version of the adapter with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters run-time version 1.7.0 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 1.7.0 or later, you must download the latest API. This section provides instructions for verifying the current version, downloading the latest version, and enabling the adapter to run on various versions of InterChange Server and Adapter Development Kit (ADK).

Verifying the the run-time version

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: 1.7.0

The line Implementation-version indicates the installed version. If the version is not 1.7.0 or later, you must download the latest run time.

Downloading the run time

To download the latest version of the run time:

  1. Go to http://www.ibm.com.
  2. Click the Support & downloads tab.
  3. Under the Downloads heading, click Downloads & drivers.
  4. In the Enter search terms field, type "wbia api" and click Submit.

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

Enabling adapters for earlier versions of Adapter Development Kit and InterChange Server

To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or WebSphere InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:

InterChange Server versions 4.1.x (except 4.1.0), ADK versions 2.1.x
InterChange Server versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, ADK versions 2.3.0 and 2.3.1
Running an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) against InterChange Server versions 4.0.1 and 4.1.x, ADK versions 2.0.x and 2.1.x
Running an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) against InterChange Server versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, ADK versions 2.3.x

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:.

Tracking
number
Description
33961

Executing a process template asynchronously leaves the ReplyTo queue manager and queue with empty values. To work around this, set a positive Response Timeout in the request business object.

31633 In a UNIX environment, a connector_manager_adapter script is generated by the Installer. 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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