You can start and stop maps from either System Monitor or from System Manager in the InterChange Server Component Management view.
This section covers the following topics:
You can view the state of a map either by logging on to System Monitor and opening a view that contains map status or by using the InterChange Server Component Management view in System Manager. To log on to System Monitor, follow the instructions in Steps for logging on to System Monitor. To use the InterChange Server Component Management view of System Manager, follow the instructions in Steps for connecting to an InterChange Server Express instance..
The state of a map is represented differently, depending on which tool you are using:
Perform the following steps in System Monitor to view map states:
When the product is installed, the default view is set to System Overview, and the default monitor contained in that view is set to System Overview. These defaults can be changed to suit your monitoring needs. See Setting up views to monitor the system for instructions.
Perform the following steps in System Manager to view map states:
Table 10 lists the map states represented by the display color on the map icon and describes what actions can be performed during that state. For more information about maps, refer to the Map Development Guide.
Map State (color) | Description |
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Active (green) | Map is ready to run and available for use. |
Inactive (red) | Map is not ready to run or available for use. |
Unknown and does not display | Map has not been compiled or the map class is missing. The map is not ready to run or available for use. Compiling the map in Map Designer Express puts the map in active state, when saving the map puts the map in unknown state. Maps with unknown state display in the object browser map tree. |
Maps define the transfer (or transformation) of data between the source and destination business objects. In the InterChange Server Express environment, data is mapped from an application-specific business object to a generic business object or from a generic business object to an application-specific business object. For detailed information about how maps are used, refer to the Map Development Guide.
This section describes how to start and stop maps. For information about additional map tasks, including map compilation, map properties, data validation levels, explicit and implicit transaction bracketing, and map instance reuse, see the System Implementation Guide.
For a map to be executable, it must first be activated. Map Designer Express automatically starts a map when it successfully compiles the map. However, other changes to the map might require that you explicitly stop and restart the map for the change to take effect. See Appendix B. Requirements for restarting IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express system components to find out what changes require maps to be stopped and restarted.
Depending on which tool you are using, you start and stop maps in the following way:
Perform the following steps in System Monitor to start and stop maps:
Perform the following steps in System Manager to start and stop maps: