Release Notes for Version 2.4.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Telcordia

These release notes cover release information for version 2.4.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Telcordia.Refer to the Adapter for Telcordia User Guide for detailed information about the adapter.

Note: The adapter documented in these release notes has not been internationalized. Do not run it against InterChange Server version 4.2.x unless you can guarantee that only ISO Latin-1 data will be processed.

The release notes contain the following sections:
Product fix history WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Hardware and software requirements Documentation updates
Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information

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. 

Product fix history

Between releases 2.3.0 and 2.4.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.
CR number Description
22225 The XML ODA has a problem in generating correct business object definitions for schema elements that use the same element name and element type. For example, for the following schema definitions:
<xsd:element name="WFADOCMP" type="WFADOCMP" /> 
- <xsd:complexType name="WFADOCMP"> 
- <xsd:sequence> 
<xsd:element name="ROUTCTL" type="ROUTCTL" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> 
<xsd:element name="GDSSOP" type="GDSSOP" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> 
</xsd:sequence> 
</xsd:complexType>
no definitions are generated for element WFADOCMP because the element type is the same as the element name.

Fixed in 2.4.0.
22341 The adapter fails to populate the meta-object with the correct message ID of the inbound message during event notification. Fixed in patch 2.3.1.
22345 The adapter fails to populate the meta-object with the correct priority of the inbound message during event notification. Fixed in patch 2.3.1.
22682 The adapter terminates when retrieving an empty message (this is expected behavior). The adapter has been enhanced so that it now reports an error but continues processing. Fixed in patch 2.3.2
22691 The adapter fails to deliver a reply message to requestor after synchronously posting an event to thebroker; it reports that a reply queue is undefined. Fixed in patch 2.3.2.
22716 The adapter fails to properly isolate meta-data when processing simultaneous requests for the same business object. The result is that the adapter may apply a single set of meta-data to multiple requests rather than use the unqiue meta-data specified for each request. Fixed in patch 2.3.2. 

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 information

Installation information

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:

These guides also include migration, upgrade, and configuration information.

For hardware and software requirements and configuration information specific to this adapter, refer to the Adapter for Telcordia User Guide.

Upgrade notes

If the integration broker is InterChange Server, using an internationalized adapter with a supported locale requires that the InterChange Server databases (including the repository) provide support for that locale's encoding. Therefore, part of the upgrade process involves the creation of InterChange Server databases that support the UCS-2 and UTF-8 character encodings. The upgrade instructions in the System Installation Guide include information on how to perform this database creation.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time

Make sure that you run adapters with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (WBIA) run-time version 1.5.0 or later.

Verifying the version of WBIA run time

To check the version of WBIA 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: 1.5.0
Implementation version indicates the current version of WBIA API.
If the version is not 1.5.0 or later, you must download the latest WBIA run time.

Downloading the WBIA run time

To download the latest version of the WBIA run time:
  1. Go to http://www.ibm.com.
  2. Click the Support and downloads tab.
  3. Under the Downloads heading, click All downloads & drivers.
  4. In the Enter search terms field, type "wbia api" and click Submit.
After you download and install the 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
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 InterChange Server

To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:
InterChange Server versions 4.0.1 and 4.1.0, ADK versions 2.0.x
Windows: In CWConnEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.X.
set CWVERSION="4.X"
UNIX: In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.X.
set CWVERSION="4.X"
InterChange Server versions 4.1.x (except 4.1.0), ADK versions 2.1.x
Windows: In CWConnEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
UNIX: In CWConnEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
Running an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) against InterChange Server versions 4.0.1 and 4.1.x, ADK versions 2.0.x and 2.1.x
Windows: In bin\CWODAEnv.bat, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"
UNIX: In bin/CWODAEnv.sh, set the CWVERSION variable to 4.1.X.
set CWVERSION="4.1.X"

Documentation updates

Product documentation is not included as part of the product package, either by CD or 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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