Release Notes for Version 1.1.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Exchange

These release notes cover release information for version 1.1.0 of the IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter for Exchange. They contain the following sections:

New in this release Hardware and software requirements
Product fix history Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration
Backward compatibility WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Product compatibility 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 section lists the new features and improvements made in this release.

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

Product fix history

Between releases 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.

Tracking
number
Description
24651 When the connector agent tries to poll the event store, a dialog box with the following message appears:
Microsoft Outlook - A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No".

This occurs if you installed the Outlook e-mail security patch. In Microsoft Exchange Server environments, you can customize the security settings by installing a special Outlook custom form in a public folder and configuring security options for individuals and groups. For details, refer to the Adapter for Exchange User Guide.

24657 When you update an item in Outlook that has been created by a service call request, no event is triggered, even though there is an event sink for the updated item. This occurs if the GUID of the connector agent user is not properly set in the Event Listener configuration file (BIA_Exchange.ini), and if CwEventUsername or CwAgentUsername or both match the name of the connector agent user.

For details on properly configuring BIA_Exchange.ini, refer to the Adapter for Exchange User Guide.

24662 The child business object names are no longer hard-coded, but can now be configured by two connector-specific properties:

RecipientBusObj
RecurrencePatternBusObj

If you do not specify these properties (or if their values are blank), they default to the following, respectively:

Recipient
RecurrencePattern

 24669 When processing an UPDATE service call request, the connector agent no longer sets attribute values to null when encountering CxIgnore.

Instead, the behavior of CxIgnore is now determined by the SetToNullOnCxIgnore parameter, set at the verb-level ASI. To set it, do the following:

1. SetToNullOnCxIgnore ==true

CxIgnore -> set value to null
CxBlank -> set value to null

2. SetToNullOnCxIgnore == false / SetToNullOnCxIgnore not specified

CxIgnore -> do nothing
CxBlank -> set value to null

30673 Previously, if an Exchange object originally created by a service call request was updated by a user, the object retrieved during event processing was the object cached from the service call request. This has been fixed, and the user-updated object is now correctly retrieved during event processing.
31242 If the user specified a verb-level ASI not recognized by the connector, a NullPointerException was generated and the service call request failed. The NullPointerException problem has been fixed, and the connector now completes the service call request.

Backward compatibility

With this release, the MailItem business object definition has changed. If you are running a previous version of this adapter, you will need to refresh this business object definition. To do so, load the file %CROSSWORLDS%\repository\Exchange\2000\MailItem.in into Business Object Designer and save it to your broker repository.

There are two major changes in the MailItem business object definition:

Product compatibility

This version of the adapter requires WBIA.jar version 1.5.0 or later because it includes support for guaranteed event delivery (GED).

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 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 Exchange 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 1.6.0 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 1.6.0 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: 1.6.0

The line Implementation-version indicates the installed version of the API. If the version is not 1.6.0 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 WebSphere 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 4.1.x (except 4.1.0), ADK versions 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

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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