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IBM Integration Bus v9.0 Introduction and

Whats new?
Kailash Peri ([email protected])
Randy Miller ([email protected])
Advisory Software Engineers L2 Support WebSphere Message Broker
11 July 2013

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Agenda

Whats in a name?

Brief History

New Features in IBM Integration Bus

Simplicity & Productivity

Business Rules

.NET Support

Graphical Mapping

Web Services

Universal Connectivity for SOA

Dynamic Operation Management

High Performance & Scalability

Platforms & Environments

Troubleshooting and support

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Whats in a name?

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.
- Juliet

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History
2013 IBM
Integration Bus(v9.0)
IIB v9.0

2009
WebSphere
Message Broker
(v7.0)
WMB v7.0

2001
MQSeries Integrator
(v2.0)
MQSI

2005
WebSphere
Business
Integration
Message Broker
(v5.0)
WBI-MB

2011
WebSphere Messsage
Broker (v8.0)
WMB v8.0
2007
WebSphere Messsage
Broker (v6.0)
WMB v6.0
2003
WebSphere MQ
Integrator (v2.1)
WMQI

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Simplicity and Productivity

Making it easier and quicker to develop and manage integration
solutions
Learn, Develop, Deploy, Manage quickly and easily
Service Discovery
Performance Analysis
Business Rules

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Service Discovery

Database Service

Customers

Accounts

Products

Partners

Discovered/defined using IIToolkit

Defines an interaction between IIB and
a database.
DnD onto compute node
Enables efficient reuse across multiple
nodes.

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Service Discovery

MQ Service
Service definitions allow you to
make best use of available resources
Discovered/defined using IIToolkit
Discovers artifacts from WebSphere MQ Qmgrs
DnD onto MQ Node to configure the node using the MQ
Service properties
New and existing nodes will be updated over time

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Performance Analysis

Message flow statistics via a Web UI

Analyse integration performance in
real-time

Export collected data as CSV for
Excel import etc.

Flexible display includes integration
diagram & data tables
Drill down to understand detailed integration behaviour

Supported on a variety of browsers: IE10, Firefox, Safari

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Business Rules

Business Decision Services using WODM technology for
business rules integration

Create Decision Service to process messages

Apply Business rules dynamically to update business logic

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.NET Support

New patterns and samples for MS Dynamics and MSMQ

SAP CRM pattern for customer account synchronization
Map account operations between BAPI & CRM Entities

Advanced CRM pattern enables dynamic graphical mapping

New customizable sample for 2-way MSMQ and MQ exchange

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.NET Support (contd.)

New and enhanced nodes for .NET programmers

.NET Input node allows developers to initiate integration logic from any
.NET system
e.g. receive request from Dynamics CRM, AX, periodically read
EXCEL file
Highly customizable polling and trigger mechanisms

.NET service enablement for mobile applications

Developer customizations
Personalize .NET nodes
Custom user properties
Simple node capture

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Graphical Mapping

Ability to call a stored procedure from a graphical data map

Use the Database Routine transform to call a stored procedure in
a database

Database routine transform / Return transform to construct
mappings

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Web Services

Web services enhancements improve security and reliability
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
SSL client authentication selection key
Inbound and Outbound support for multiple personal
certificates
HTTP BasicAuth support
Support for multiple Kerberos Service Principals in a single
broker
Support for Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) on SSL
requests

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Universal Connectivity for SOA

IBM Business Process Manager (Lombardi) integration

IBM Integration administration for WebSphere Application
Server

Application-to-application integration

IBM MessageSight integration

Coordinated transactions for CICS requests

CICS Activity Logging

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Dynamic Operation Management

Workload Management

Message flow notification

Setting maximum rate for a message flow
Unresponsive message flows
Configure a policy; defines threshold limits and relevant
actions
NOTIFY: Higher (or lower) than threshold generates publication
DELAY: Excessive workload will have latency added to shape
throughput
REDIRECT: At threshold, send workload to input nodes failure
terminal, backout if not wired

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Dynamic Operation Management

Execution group user IDs on z/OS
Alternate userid can be defined for each EG
Permissions controlled based upon userid
Controlled via Environment variables
MQSI_STARTEDTASK_FIXED_executionGroupName=STC
MQSI_STARTEDTASK_MULTI_executionGroupName=STC
Eg. MQSI_STARTEDTASK_MULTI_TESTEG=CSQ1GRP1

MQSI_STARTEDTASK_DEFAULT=STC
Note: executionGroupName is set using same rules as STEPNAME.

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Scalability & High Performance

Embedded cache extensions: External cache, expiry and SSL
support

Flexible Cloud Provisioning with IWS, SCAS and Pure, including
Pure POWER support

Host WebSphere eXtreme Scale container servers in multiinstance brokers

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Platforms & Environments

Broad range of operating system and hardware platforms supported

AIX, Windows, z/OS, HP-UX, Linux on xSeries, pSeries, zSeries,
Solaris (x86-64 & SPARC), Ubuntu
Traditional OS

Optimized 64-bit support on all platforms; 32-bit option for development platforms
(Windows & x/Linux)

New support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012;
.NET CLR V4.5 included on Windows

Private Cloud

Virtual images for efficient utilization & simple provisioning

Extensive support for virtualized environments,
e.g. VMWare, AIX Hypervisor any!

Public Cloud

IBM Workload Deployer for x/Linux & AIX

Support for Pure on POWER hardware to complement xLinux

IBM Pure

SmartCloud and IBM Workload Deployer images

for simplified solution provisioning
IBM Workload Deployer

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Platforms & Environments

Includes access to full range of industry standard databases and ERP systems

DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Informix, solidDB

Open Driver Manager support enables new ODBC databases to be accessed

JDBC Type 4 for popular databases

SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JDEdwards at no additional cost

Technology components and pre-requisites

Java 7 on all platforms

MQ 7.5 prerequisite (7.1 on z/OS)

Detailed System Requirements

Will be posted on www.ibm.com/integration-bus

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Troubleshooting and support

Verify the ODBC environment on Linux and UNIX systems
MQSICVP (mqsistart)
runs automatically as part of mqsistart
now performs basic ODBC environment checking
MQSICVP (standalone)
performs connectivity testing of all odbc.ini data sources
associated with broker via mqsisetdbparms

Can be used to isolate issues discovered during runtime

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Migration

Migration from WMB V6.1, V7 and V8

All development assets (e.g. message flows, ESQL, DFDL, Java, Maps and XSLT)
import directly
Right-click convert action for pre-V8 maps; some manual tasks may be required

Migrate brokers using a single command, or create new brokers for phased
migration
No broker redeployment necessary when using built-in migrate command
All existing BAR files can be deployed to IB V9 brokers without change

Migration commands for in-place migration

Includes migration of configuration data including broker databases, queues and
registry

Forwards and backwards migration of existing components, in situ
mqsimigratecomponents command (includes t option for rollback to V7
and V8)

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Migration

Flexible co-existence options remove the need for additional hardware when migrating

IB V9 co-exists on the same OS with all previous MB versions

MQ V7.5 required for all IB V9 brokers
MQ V7.5 supported with all V6.1, V7 and V8 brokers for the purposes of V9
migration

Built-in conversion tools for WESB source assets

Initial emphasis on web services use cases (e.g. StockQuote)

Advanced use cases over time; convert when appropriate for your installation

Open framework for user and partner extensions

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Recap

History

New Features in IBM Integration Bus

Simplicity & Productivity

Business Rules

.NET Support

Graphical Mapping

Web Services

Universal Connectivity for SOA

Dynamic Operation Management

Scalability & High Performance

Platforms & Environments

Troubleshooting and support

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