You can start and stop maps from either System Monitor or the InterChange Server Component Management view of System Manager.
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 of 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 instance..
The state of a map is represented differently, depending on which tool you are using.
Steps for viewing map states in System Monitor
Perform the following steps to view the state of map using System Monitor:
Steps for viewing map states in System Manager
Perform the following steps to view the state of map using System Manager:
Figure 29. Maps folder in the InterChange Server Component Management view of System Manager
Table 16 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/Traffic Light | Description |
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Active (green) | Map is ready to run and available for use in the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system. |
Inactive (red) | Map is not ready to run or available for use in the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system. |
Unknown (do not display) | Map has not been compiled or the map class is missing. The map is not ready to run or available for use in the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system. Compiling the map in Map Designer puts the map in active state, while 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 IBM WebSphere InterChange Server 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 in the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system, refer to the Map Development Guide.
This section describes the how to start and stop maps. For information about additional tasks in using maps, 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 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 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 different ways.
Steps for starting and stopping maps in System Monitor
Perform the following steps to start or stop a map using System Monitor:
Steps for starting and stopping maps in System Manager
Perform the following steps to start or stop a map using System Manager: