When you create and name a new connector configuration file, or
when you open an existing connector configuration file, Connector
Configurator displays a configuration screen with tabs for the
categories of required configuration values.
Connector Configurator requires values for properties in these
categories for connectors running on all brokers:
- Standard Properties
- Connector-specific Properties
- Supported Business Objects
- Trace/Log File values
- Data Handler (applicable for connectors that use JMS messaging
with guaranteed event delivery)
- Note:
- For connectors that use JMS messaging, an additional category
may display, for configuration of data handlers that convert the
data to business objects.
For connectors running on ICS, values for these
properties are also required:
- Associated Maps
- Resources
- Messaging (where applicable)
- Important:
- Connector Configurator accepts property values in either
English or non-English character sets. However, the names of both
standard and connector-specific properties, and the names of
supported business objects, must use the English character set
only.
Standard properties differ from connector-specific properties as
follows:
- Standard properties of a connector are shared by both the
application-specific component of a connector and its broker
component. All connectors have the same set of standard properties.
These properties are described in Appendix A of each adapter guide.
You can change some but not all of these values.
- Application-specific properties apply only to the
application-specific component of a connector, that is, the
component that interacts directly with the application. Each
connector has application-specific properties that are unique to
its application. Some of these properties provide default values
and some do not; you can modify some of the default values. The
installation and configuration chapters of each adapter guide
describe the application-specific properties and the recommended
values.
The fields for Standard Properties and
Connector-Specific Properties are color-coded to show which
are configurable:
- A field with a grey background indicates a standard property.
You can change the value but cannot change the name or remove the
property.
- A field with a white background indicates an
application-specific property. These properties vary according to
the specific needs of the application or connector. You can change
the value and delete these properties.
- Value fields are configurable.
- The Update Method field is informational and not
configurable. This field specifies the action required to activate
a property whose value has changed.
