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:
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.
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.
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 are included in the product documentation. See Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information for links to those guides.
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.
Make sure that you run adapters with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (WBIA) run-time version 1.5.0 or later.
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.
To download the latest version of the WBIA run time:
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
To enable an adapter to work with various versions of ADK or InterChange Server, follow the appropriate procedure below:
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"
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"
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"
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. |
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:
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wicserver/infocenter
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiadapters/infocenter
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.