The SCA nodes allow non-XML data to be sent and received from WebSphere® Process Server by using the WebSphere MQ binding. For example, you can create a message model from a COBOL copybook, and use that message model to parse messages received from WebSphere Process Server.
If an MQ binding is specified, WebSphere MQ is required to process the messages, so you must ensure that WebSphere MQ is installed on the same computer as your integration node. WebSphere MQ is not provided as part of the IBM® Integration Bus installation package, but your license for IBM Integration Bus entitles you to install and use WebSphere MQ. For more information about using WebSphere MQ with IBM Integration Bus, see Installing WebSphere MQ.
Both IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Integration Developer use XML schema to describe the logical format of the message to be parsed. Extra information in the form of XML schema annotations is used to describe any physical formats that you define for the messages. The physical format describes the precise appearance of the message bit stream during transmission.
In IBM Integration Bus, using the MRM domain, you can model different physical representations using specific physical formats. These physical formats include Custom Wire Format (CWF) and Tagged Delimited String Format (TDS). Using the CWF physical format, you can model a message directly from a COBOL copybook.
Interoperability with WebSphere Process Server describes how the schema describing the logical format can be exchanged between IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Integration Developer. However, the XML schema annotations that describe the physical format is not exchanged in those steps. This topic shows how to model the same message in both IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Integration Developer. You create applications in IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Process Server that use a message model derived from a COBOL copybook. You can use a similar method for other message models derived from other non-XML data structures such as C Header files.