The 4.2.0 release of the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server
product includes the following new features and changes:
The following new features are covered in this guide:
- Web-based System Monitor: The Web-based System Monitor is a new,
Web-based tool that allows you to monitor the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server
system from the Web. It coexists with the Windows-based System Monitor,
which is a revised version of the System Monitor provided in previous
releases. For a full description of the differences between these two
versions of System Monitor, and for instructions on using each tool, see Using System Monitor.
- System Manager: System Manager is the revised tool that was known as
CrossWorlds System Manager (CSM) in previous releases (see New terminology). Descriptions of how to use System Manager to
perform certain tasks exist throughout this guide, particularly in Using System Manager, but for a thorough description of the revised functionality
of System Manager, see the System Implementation Guide.
- Flow Manager: Flow Manager is a new tool that allows you to manage
unresolved flows. For instructions on using Flow Manager, see Administering failed events.
- Flow control: Flow control is a configurable service that allows you
to manage the flow of connector and collaboration object queues. For
instructions on using flow control, see the following sections:
- Repos_copy: Many new arguments have been added to and removed from
the repos_copy tool. For more information, refer to Using repos_copy.
- Optimized InterChange Server recovery
- Long-lived business processes: Refer to Steps for reconfiguring the timeout attribute for long-lived business processing.
- Dynamic updates: Refer to Appendix B, Requirements for restarting IBM WebSphere Business Integration system components.
This guide has been reorganized in the following ways:
- Topics have been consolidated into single sections that describes both
conceptual and task-oriented information. Prior to this release, topics
were spread out among many chapters, forcing you to jump from chapter to
chapter to piece together various sections of a topic.
- The chapters have been renamed and reorganized to reflect the needs of the
system administrator.
Two terminology changes are apparent in this guide: the removal of
the term "CrossWorlds" and the use of "Web-based" or "Windows-based" when
describing System Monitor.
The "CrossWorlds" name is no longer used to describe an entire system or to
modify the names of components or tools, which are otherwise mostly the same
as before. For example, "CrossWorlds System Manager" is now "System
Manager," and "CrossWorlds InterChange Server" is now "WebSphere InterChange
Server."
System Monitor has two versions in this release: a Web-based version
and a Windows-based version. The Web-based version is new in this
release, while the Windows-based version is a revised version of the System
Monitor that was part of previous releases. For a full description of
the differences between these two versions of System Monitor, see Using System Monitor
