Release Notes for Version 5.6.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for JText

These release notes cover release information for Version 5.6.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for JText. 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 Limitations
Product compatibility Known problems and workarounds
Hardware and software requirements Documentation updates

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. Click the product you are interested in; if flashes are available, they are located in Self help > Solve a problem > Flashes (Alerts).

New in this release

New features and improvements made in this release include the following:

New operating system support

The adapter now runs on the following platforms:

New language support

This version of the adapter includes bidirectional (bi-di) support.

Refer to the Adapter for JText User Guide for detailed information about the Adapter for JText and the new features.

Product fix history

Between release 5.5.0 and 5.6.0, the following problems, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.
Tracking
number
Description
27291 A new line character in JText log messages causes problems when the messages are viewed through the Log Viewer.
35432 When the SortFilesOnTimestamp property is used and a large number of input files are present, JText takes a long time to process them.
37132 When the output directory is specified as remote for service calls with the property FTPKeepConnectionOpen set to "true," an exception occurs.
46046 When a large object business object of around 5 MB is sent during either event processing or service calls, it results in an OutOfMemory error.
46499 JText does not archive more than one file that matches the file mask in a Partitioned Data Set (PDS) system.
46569 When FTPArchiveDir and FTPRenameExt properties are specified for an MVS Sequential Data Set (SDS), the connector fails to archive files.
46570 During event processing, when an input file with the same name is polled again on an MVS system, the file is not archived successfully.

Backward compatibility

This version is not backward compatible with previous versions of the Adapter Development Kit (ADK). It needs the ADK 4.2.2.2 patch or higher versions of ADK to function.

Product compatibility

With this release, the Adapter is no longer supported on Solaris 7.

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 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 JText User Guide.

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 1.8.0 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 1.8.0 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).

Verifying 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: 1.8.0

The line Implementation-version indicates the installed version of the API. If the version is not 1.8.0 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
bin\CWConnEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWConnEnv.sh (UNIX)
bin\CWODAEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWODAEnv.sh (UNIX)
connectors\messages\CwConnectorAgentMessages.txt

Limitations

This release includes the following limitations:

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

Tracking
number
Description
58964 For FTP servers that have non-Latin characters in their file paths, JText uses the following encoding conventions:
  • ISO-8859-8 if the locale is Hebrew
  • ISO-8859-6 if the locale is Arabic
  • ISO-8859-1 for all other cases
33378 When large numbers of request calls are made, JText writes out only n-1 files when n calls are made.

Documentation updates

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 Information Centers:

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 Information Center page to complete the installation.

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