While the What's new in Version 5.0? topic introduces
you to the main new function in WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker Version
5.0,
this topic introduces you to some of the other new function added in fix packs.
For detailed information about the content of fix packs, go to the WebSphere MQ family support
Web page and read the fix pack memo,
called memo.ptf.
Some features added in Fix Pack 5:
- On Linux for Intel,
you now use the DataDirect Driver Manager to connect to DB2 databases. For
more information, see Defining an ODBC connection on UNIX systems.
- The MRM domain TDS physical format can now recognize and
interpret HL7 service strings, and a new TDS messaging standard called 'HL7'
has been added. For more information, see HL7.
- The broker now supports the 'Z' character as meaning a
zero time difference from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when it appears
as a time zone in a dateTime field in a message. It is possible to accept
dateTimes containing 'Z' on input, and to generate them on output. For more
information, see DateTime as STRING data.
- The new mqsimigratequeues command makes
it easier to migrate a Version 2.1 broker to Version 5.0 by creating any new queues that are needed
by the updated broker. For more information, see mqsimigratequeues command.
- The mqsimigratemsgsets command
includes a new option -pl that you can
use to specify that elements that have prefixed identifiers and are referenced
more than once are to be created as local rather than global. For more information,
see Prefixed identifiers.
Some features added in Fix Pack 4:
- If you have existing Java code, you can now invoke it directly from ESQL.
For more information, see External Java methods.
- The MRM Tagged/Delimited String format can now parse and write raw TLOG
messages. For more information, see TLOG.
- The MRM Encoding Null mechanism
has been extended for the COBOL initialization of 01 structures. For more
information, see Importing from COBOL: supported features.
Some features added in Fix Pack 3:
- When an XML Schema is imported, the following constructs are now accepted:
Key, Keyref, and Unique. However, XML Schemas with such constructs are not
supported and are ignored by the broker. For more information, see Importing from XML Schema: unsupported features.
- The COBOL importer now supports the ASCII Sign
EBCDIC Custom External Decimal representation within the CWF component.
For more information, see Importing from COBOL: supported features.