Release Notes for WebSphere Business Integration Toolset, Version 4.3

These release notes cover release information for WebSphere(R) Business Integration Toolset, version 4.3. They contain the following sections:
New in this release Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information
Product fix history Limitations
Backward compatibility Known problems and workarounds
Hardware and software requirements Documentation

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.

New in this release

This section lists the new features and improvements made in this release.

General

System Manager

Integrated Test Environment

Process Designer

An auto-layout feature has been added to Process Designer. Template diagram layout can be automatically formatted by clicking a button. Because undo is not supported, save the diagram before applying auto-layout, so that the diagram can be restored by reopening the saved diagram.

Map Designer

Activity Editor

Connector Configurator

SNMP toolset

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Product fix history

Between releases 4.2.2 and 4.3, the following problems, based on customer-reported cases, were fixed.

System Manager

Tracking number Problem
18687 For user-created folders inside a project, System Manager returns an error when creating a collaboration object.

Process Designer

Tracking number Problem
20719 Asynchronous outbound and inbound service calls are not supported in BPEL Import and Export processes. For synchronous service calls, you might lose information about regular and compensation ports and business objects.
22643 Tangled decision nodes. The decision nodes are tangled when old templates are upgraded to new templates where the branch decision logic is moved from the individual links to a decision node. The problem arises because a decision node is inserted as a new node between action nodes (where there is no space for it). The branch ports are arbitrarily assigned to the outgoing links, which causes additional problems in the shape of the links. However, the branching logic itself is not affected.
31900 When Process Designer is launched from the System Manager project tree with a given template name, the business object definitions may not be available if the template definition window is not opened first. This can happen when the service call advanced property is configured for correlation set, and business object probes are edited.

Activity Editor

Tracking number Problem
31398 Long descriptions are truncated in the properties panel. The full description can be seen as a tool tip by mousing over the property.

Connector Configurator

Tracking number Description
18981 Connector Configurator, Business Object Designer, Map Designer, Process Designer, and Relationship Designer show deleted projects in their project lists.
34367 Supported business objects and maps are not properly removed from the connector definition, which causes dependency validation errors.
35225 There is an abnormal program termination when opening a configuration with a large number of business objects.

System Monitor

Tracking number Problem
31713 The -ccountry parameter for the WBSMMigrate.bat script did not work. Migration is done automatically now when the user logs in to System Monitor. The WBSMMigrate.bat file is no longer used.
32078 If you tried to start a map that was already started, the expected message that the map is already active was returned. However, after this message appeared, if you tried to stop the map, a 404 error was returned.

SNMP

Tracking number Problem
8089 The SNMP Agent and SNMP Configuration Manager are installed together as a bundle, even though the Agent and the Manager can function on separate machines.

Backward compatibility

A configuration saved by this release of the Connector Configurator specifies a version of 4.3.0. Earlier configuration versions must be upgraded by opening and saving the configuration again. During this process, new properties (based on dependencies) are automatically included with default values. See the new properties table in "New in this release."

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information for links to those guides.

Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information

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.

Limitations

The following bidirectional enablement limitations exist in this version of ICS:

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

General

Tracking number Problem
The French character 0x9C might display incorrectly in some tools windows.
If you use a non-bidirectional keyboard layout (for example, English) when you copy bidirectional characters from an external application (for example, Notepad) and paste them into a C++-based tool GUI, the characters display as question marks.

Workaround: When copying bidirectional characters from an external source make sure the current keyboard layout is bidirectional.
37449 A business object template in an external file that has Hebrew characters in its name cannot be saved.
58628 Bidirectional characters are incorrectly displayed as part of the error message displayed in the System Manager console.

System Manager

Tracking number Problem
22302 If System Manager is not running, the designer tools display an error message while launching.

Workaround: This is a warning message. Designers need System Manager for working with project information. You cannot work with System Manager projects until System Manager is launched.

44456 Some System Manager ICL projects might not be deleted properly.

Workaround: Delete the affected ICL project folder using the resource perspective, then refresh it.

Connector Configurator

Tracking number Problem
18686 You cannot create multiple values of a connector-specific property in the Connector-Specific Properties category. You must use the Connector-Specific Property Template wizard to create multiple values of a connector-specific property.
30799 To specify CORBA properties such as OAport(com.ibm.CORBA.LocalHost), you must manually edit the adaptername.cfg file produced by Connector Configurator. Or, you can do this in an adaptername.con file (the file produced when a connector is saved to the project instead of to the file system).

For example:
<tns:property>
<tns:name>CORBA SAPConnector</tns:name>
<tns:isEncrypted>false</tns:isEncrypted>
<tns:updateMethod>component restart</tns:updateMethod>
<tns:location>
<tns:reposController>false</tns:reposController>
<tns:reposAgent>false</tns:reposAgent>
<tns:localConfig>true</tns:localConfig>
</tns:location>
<tns:property>
<tns:name>OAport</tns:name>
<tns:value xml:space="preserve">128</tns:value>
<tns:isEncrypted>false</tns:isEncrypted>
<tns:updateMethod>system restart</tns:updateMethod>
<tns:location>
<tns:reposController>false</tns:reposController>
<tns:reposAgent>false</tns:reposAgent>
<tns:localConfig>true</tns:localConfig>
</tns:location>
</tns:property>
</tns:property>

Process Designer

Tracking number Problem
20579 Information about Iterator may be lost in BPEL import and export processes.
Process Designer allows a decision node to follow a start node, but a decision node should not follow a start node.

Map Designer

Tracking number Problem
59751 You cannot open a map from a file if it is already open from a project.

SNMP

Tracking number Problem

Because on UNIX platforms only root users can use port 161, the default port for the SNMP Agent running on a UNIX platform is 1161. On a Windows platform, the default port remains 161.

System Monitor

Tracking number Problem
23820 When changing the color theme of graphs (Bar, Line, Stacked Bar), you must click on the large color box choice for the colors to be set properly. Do not use the small color boxes for choosing the color theme.
44358 If you use System Monitor with WebSphere Application Server 5.1 on HP-UX, you cannot browse for active InterChange Servers from the System Monitor login page.

Workaround: Type the server name in the login page.

Documentation

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 Information Center page to complete the installation.

Product documentation is not included as part of the product package, either by CD or by electronic product distribution. The documentation for this product can be found in the following Information Centers:

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 Information Center page to complete the installation.

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