Release Notes for Version 4.3.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Siebel eBusiness Applications

These release notes cover release information for version 4.3.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Siebel eBusiness 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 Siebel eBusiness Applications User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.

Product fix history

Between adapter releases 4.2.0 and 4.3.0, the following CRs, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.
CR number Description
18122 Update of the event status was failing and has been fixed.
18136 The child verb operation was returning an AttributeNotFoundException for DeltaUpdate and has been fixed.
18195 Updating of a child that is a picklist was not working properly. The existing picklist child is unpicked and is updated with a new child. This has been fixed.
22292 The adapter shuts itself down if the databean session times out. This has been fixed. If the databean session times out, the adapter tries to log in if the number of beans that are in use is less than the maximum number of beans that were configured. If the login is successful, the request is processed. If the login is unsuccessful, the adapter shuts down.
22548 The child association update was not working properly and has been fixed. If the child is an association to the parent and has a multi-value link, the ASI of the child attribute is LFN=linkFieldName;Assoc=True;. A new ASI has been added for the case where the child is an association to the parent and does not have a multi-value link, in which case the ASI is LFN=linkFieldName;AssocNoMVF=True;.
22600 Duplicate attribute names in business object definitions were causing business object generation failure. The ODA has been changed to fix this..
22663 Associating a child that exists in the database did not retrieve the child based on content. This has been fixed. Now the adapter retrieves the child based on content if an association exists.
22664 A search failed if there was a space in the search string. This has been fixed.
22686 Simple link child objects are not updating. This has been fixed.

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:

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
23418 SiebelODA on HP-UX Japanese: The encoding ja_jp.SJIS must be set while logging on to the HP-UX machine and creating a japanese folder. This folder is given as part of the value of the FileLocation property. Business object files used by the 'Convert' option of SiebelODA are copied under this folder.
24598 For the SiebelODA start file on Solaris and HP-UX platforms, change "$ORB_DEP}" to "${ORB_DEP}".

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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