Release Notes for Version 2.3.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications

These release notes cover release information for version 2.3.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications. They contain the following sections:
New in this release WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Product fix history Known problems and workarounds
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.

New in this release

This section lists the new features and improvements made in this release.

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

Product fix history

Between adapter release release 2.2.0 and 2.3.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.
CR number Description
12591 The adapters now pick up default values during insert of a child business object to a pre-existing parent business object.
14589 useDefaults is now configured for retrieving business objects.
14681 Set up DRIVERPATH to reference the path to the DB2 JDBC driver for the JDBC ODA.
15236 Support has been added for the CLOB data type.
15247 The message file name was specified incorrectly in the message file header.
15649 Support has been added for allowing the schema name for sequences used for defining ID columns.
15982/22198 Single-cardinality child business objects were not deleted.
16028 Improved handling for null primary and foreign keys.
16494 Grandparent access support has been added for copy attributes.
16566 A problem with the RDBMS.initsession property in the configuration file has been fixed.
16955 Support has been added for returning result sets for stored procedures for Oracle 8i.
22592 Support has been added for an increase in the length of an eventid.

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 general migration, upgrade, and configuration information.

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

Upgrade notes

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"

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

CR number Description
23147 Using CLOB data types is restricted to retrieve operations because of restrictions in different JDBC drivers on writing CLOB data to the database.

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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