 | IBM WebSphere® InterChange Server is a key component of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server. It addresses the need for efficiency and flexibility in automating and synchronizing business activities executed across multiple applications as business processes. The tools for the WebSphere InterChange Server are provided as WebSphere Business Integration Toolset. WebSphere InterChange Server V4.3 summary   New features Version 4.3 is an incremental release that delivers new platforms, reliability and availability enhancements, new role based security model and performance enhancements, including: - Linux® for Intel 32-bit architecture platforms.
- Microsoft® Windows® 2003 and Sun® Solaris® 9.
- Java™ 1.4.2.
- Eclipse 2.1 Workbench.
- Role-based access, audit logging, and privacy.
- Optimizations for large business objects.
- Performance optimizations for JMS usage.
- Dynamic deployment.
- Deployment time configuration.
- Dynamic service calls.
- Database connection resilience.
- Failed flow API for use by collaborations.
- New IBM XML 4J parser.
- Adapter Framework V2.6.
- Adapters from the WebSphere BI Adapter portfolio.
- UDB DB2® EE for ICS Repository usage.
- Tooling enhancements.
WebSphere InterChange Server summary Globalization - DBCS enablement support.
- Globalization basic support including BIDI enablement.
- National Language Support (NLS) includes US English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish Brazilian, Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Platform support - IBM AIX®.
- HP-UX 11i
- Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003
- Microsoft Windows XP (tools only)
- RedHat Linux 3.0 (Intel® 32 bit architectures).
- SuSE Linux 8.1 (Intel 32 bit architectures).
- Sun Solaris 8 or 9 operating environment.
Database support - IBM DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Server Edition 8.1 with Fix Pack 5 (included); Note: a DB2-supported C or C++ compiler is also required to compile DB2 stored procedures.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3A (Microsoft Windows platforms only).
- Oracle RDBMS 8.i, 9i.
Messaging support Reliability - Business process recovery maintaining event sequencing.
- Connector flow control management
- Automatic pause and resume insures the system is not overloaded by applications
- Collaboration flow control:
- Blocking and non-blocking collaborations allow quality of service to be configured by business process.
- Failed Flow recovery:
- Manage failed events from Web Browser
- Collaboration api for custom recovery solutions
Availability - WebSphere Interchange Server is a supported platform in a high availability hardware fail-over scenario-IBM Services can provide assistance with configuring HA solutions.
- Dynamic Deployment of Components to a live InterChange Server - no need to stop Server to add and adapter or new process.
- Configurable Database Connection Retries- keep InterChange Server resilient to temporary connection loss
Scalability - Multi-threaded concurrent business logic execution
- Multi-threaded concurrent map execution
- Database connection pooling
- Database connection resilience: retries -configure number of attempts and interval
- Deployment time configuration of artefacts to multiple InterChange Servers
- Long Lived , Interruptable Processes:
- Scalable utilization of threading resources by saving, reusing and restoring thread context during long wait periods in interactions
- Faster recovery:
- Provides roll-forward recovery from point of forward progress as well as rollback.
Data integrity WebSphere InterChange Server offers: - Event sequencing
- Events that trigger processes relating to specific business information are kept in order, regardless of when the events "arrive" at the WebSphere InterChange Server.
- Can be switched off when not required to increase performance.
- Cross-referencing
- Relationships
- Unique IDs from each application or database are automatically stored and indexed to each other.
- Transaction Management
- Compensation transaction model
- Allows true process roll-back ,roll forward, and other advanced error-handling features
Management - Business probe support - instrument business processes for runtime collection of data.
- Business probes allow you to quickly save selective data values as an business object flows through the WebSphere InterChange Server.
- Introduce User defined "save-points" in the business process.
- Create business performance measures.
- Role based User Authentication.
- LDAP interface for external user/password authentication in a directory service.
- Privacy option - Message Encryption between ICS and Adapter Agent.
- Integrity option - Digital Signature of messages between ICS and Adapter Agent.
Connectivity - GUI generated
- Automated mapping of source to target mappings.
- Reverse mapping.
- Automated Synonym mapping (N:1).
- Prefix,Suffix, Upper/lower Case handling.
- Adapter support:
- Bi-directional, asynchronous, and event-based connectors.
- JMS / WebSphere MQ used as transport.
- Adapter framework provides common runtime services.
- Remote Agent capability:
- Connect Interchange Server to remote applications.
- Optional firewall support with WebSphere MQ Internet pass-thru.
- Remote administration benefits- centralize IT skills.
- WebSphere Business Integration Adapters included (single instance license):
- Adapter for JMS.
- Adapter for WMQ.
- Adapter for Web services.
- Adapter for WebSphere MQ Workflow.
- Adapter for WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker.
- Adapter for e-mail
- Data Handler for XML
- Synchronous Access support (separately licensed):
- WebSphere InterChange Server Access:
- Enable business processes to connect to CORBA applications via IIOP.
- WebSphere InterChange Server Access for Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJBs):
- Enable EJB components hosted in an application server to participate in business processes.
- WebSphere InterChange Server Access for J2EE™ Connector Architecture:
- Enable JCA connectivity to an application server.
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