Before installing, configuring, and using the adapter, you must understand its environmental requirements:
This adapter runs with the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework V2.6 and requires one of the following 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
In addition to a broker, this adapter requires one of the following operating systems:
The adapter has the following software prerequisites and other dependencies:
The connector has been internationalized so that it can support 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 preserves the meaning of the data.
This adapter supports the processing of bidirectional script data for the Arabic and Hebrew languages when the adapter is run in a Windows environment. Bidirectional processing is not supported in non-Windows environments. To use the bidirectional capacity, you must configure the bidirectional standard properties. For more information, refer to the standard configuration properties for connectors in Appendix A.
The Java runtime environment within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represents data in the Unicode character code set. Unicode contains encoding 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.
To log error and informational messages in the appropriate language and for the appropriate country or territory, configure the Locale standard configuration property for your environment. For more information on configuration properties, see Appendix A. Standard configuration properties for connectors.
This adapter is compatible with Common Event Infrastructure from IBM, a standard for event management that permits interoperability with other IBM WebSphere event-producing applications. If Common Event Infrastructure support is enabled, events produced by the adapter can be received (or used) by another Common Event Infrastructure-compatible application.
For more information, see the Application Response Management appendix in this guide.
This adapter is compatible with the Application Response Measurement (ARM) application programming interface (API), an API that enables applications to be managed for availability, service level agreements, and capacity planning. An ARM-instrumented application can participate in IBM Tivoli(R) Monitoring for Transaction Performance, enabling collection and review of data concerning transaction metrics.
For more information, see the Application Response Measurement appendix in this guide.