Table of Contents

• Introduction

  • Enterprise Application Integration
  • Design, requirements gathering

• Architecture

  • Integration Nodes and servers
  • MQ dependency
  • Application vs Integration Project

• Message Transformation

  • Message Transformation
  • Transformation Extender
  • Transformation using XSL in a message flow
  • Source
  • Target
  • Message Enrichment
  • Protocol conversion
  • SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
  • Message Set, Message definition creation
  • Message Set, Message definition creation for XML
  • Message modelling
  • Mapping XML from an XSD
  • Mapping XML with multiple records from an XSD

• Nodes

  • FileInput & FileOutput nodes
  • MQEndPoint Policy
  • Alternative to MQEndPoint Policy
  • MQInputNode mode. How your messages will be processed
  • MQOutputNode mode. How your messages will be processed
  • Scenario full queue MQOutputNode node
  • MQ Output
  • MQ Reply
  • Publication Node
  • MQRFH2 Tree

• ESQL

  • Local, UDP (AKA External) & Shared Variables
  • Shared vs Static Library
  • ESQL native to IIB
  • MOVE NEXTSIBLING vs CARDINALITY and [i] call in a WHILE loop
  • The MOVE statement
  • WHILE versus FOR loop
  • Converting XMLNSC to JSON
  • Propagation vs RETURN
    • PROPAGATE
      • Key Behaviors:
    • RETURN
      • Key Behaviors:
    • PROPAGATE vs RETURN TRUE vs RETURN FALSE in IBM ESQL
  • Difference between DECLARE varName CHAR FIELDNAME() & DECLARE varName REFERENCE TO
  • LEAVE statement
  • COALESCE
  • ESQL field reference overview
  • Shared variable and ATOMIC block
  • Global Cache
  • Enabling Global Cache for multiple Integration Nodes (brokers)
  • The THE function returns the first element of a list
  • DATE TIME TRANSFORMATION
  • INTERVAL DATATYPE
  • Opaque Parsing
  • ASBITSTREAM in ESQL
  • Aggregation

• Java

  • Java and Java Compute Node
  • JCN code to access a message set

• Routing

  • Message Routing
  • Route node
  • Filter node
  • RouteToLabel node

• Security

  • HTTPS webservice
  • Set up HTTPS web service

• Deployment

  • Compile BAR inline
  • BAR override

• Error Handling in the message flow

  • Timeout Notification is controlled by Timeout Control
  • Failure and Catch terminals
  • MQ Failure and Catch
  • Try Catch node

• Monitoring

  • Event Monitoring using node properties
  • Event Monitoring using monitoring profile XML file

• Troubleshooting

  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  • Overview of Differences

  • Key Distinctions

    • 1. Scope and Focus
    • 2. Detail vs Performance
    • 3. Usage
    • 4. Data Destination

  • Summary

  • Trace Node

  • Validation settings for input type nodes

  • Validation settings for input type nodes

• Web Services

  • Web Services
  • SOAP Gateway mode
  • Exposing SOAP webservice. WSDL creation
  • REST

• SAP

  • SAP
  • How to use IBM App Connect with SAP (via RFC)