IBM Integration Bus - development & administration

• The IBM Integration Bus - Introduction

Without the Integration Bus; Point-To-Point Connection; The solution; Without the Integration Bus; Point-To-Point Connection; The solution; Terms; IBM's Integration Bus?; History; Versions; IBM's product list; Integration Bus Toolkit; IBM Integration Bus operation; The WebSphere Message Broker environment (pre/post Version 9); Components; Message Flows: structure of a message; Integration Bus Nodes; Terms within the Integration Bus; XML: overview; Parser; Why model Messages?; Integration Bus Domains; Standards; Resources/Workspace; Types of Resource; Library; Application; File Extensions; Integration Bus Explorer; Working sets.

• Administration

Introduction; Requirements for Broker Domain pre /post Version 9; MQ Queue Manager; TCP/IP Listener; The Integration Bus creation; Other commands; Starting/stopping the Integration Bus using wizard; Starting/stopping the Integration Bus using MQSICOMMANDS; Command summary; Command summary version 9; The default configuration; Integration Bus Explorer; DELETE, START AND STOP.

• Integration Bus Toolkit

Introduction; Development overview - pre/post Version 9; Developing applications - a simple example; Stage 1: creating the queues, backout requeue; Stage 2: creating the working set Stage 3: create the Message /Message Model; Stage 4: create the Message Flow; Stage 5: Creating the bar file, build the bar file, view the logs, create the Integration Server; Stage 6: testing method 1 - RFHUTIL; Stage 6: testing method 2 - using the Integration Bus.

• Input & Output

Introduction; Message format - physical representations; Conversion; Selecting a Parser; Messages; Message Queue Message Descriptor - Header; Format; Additional headers; Message format in MQ; MQ rules and format header version 2 (MQRFH2); The MQRFH2 folders; The message tree structure; Environment tree structure; Local environment tree; Exception List Tree structure; Input Nodes; Output Nodes; Configuring Input Nodes: introduction, properties; Configuring Output Nodes: introduction, properties; Configuring Compute Node: introduction, properties.

• Error Handling & Debugging

Introduction; Failure Terminal; TryCatch Node; Backout Queue; Dead Letter Queue; Transactional / Outside Transaction Control Messages; Adding a SUBFLOW; Logs; Local error log windows; Event Log Editor; Trace; XPath introduction; User Trace; Using TRACE to start a user trace; Using the Output; User Trace Node; Service Trace; The Flow Debugger; Setting the breakpoints; Creating the port; Debugging; Debugging perspective.

• Routing

The filter node; Route node; Route to label ,; Label node; Aggregation node; Configuring the collector node; Subflows pre/post Version 9; by the invalid staff message; Sequence / Resequence node (Routing Drawer); Resequence node properties.

• Message Transformation

Introduction; ESQL; Message Tree; Correlation names; Nodes.

• ESQL

Introduction; Properties Node / Folder; Message Queue Message Descriptor; Tree Structure Nodes/Folders; Examples Filter/Trace Node; Examples Compute/Database Node; ESQL operators; Special characters; Statements; Index expression; Node list; Message Tree references; MOVE and LASTMOVE statements; MOVE; LAST MOVE; SAMEFIELD statement; DETACH statement; ATTACH statement; CREATE statement; Variable declaration; Types of variable; Data Types - introduction; Commands inserting, updating, and deleting fields; Deleting fields; NULL; Cast transforming to another data type; Date and time functions; String functions; Numeric functions; List functions; IF; CASE; WHILE; MODULE; Function & Procedures; CALL; PROPAGATE.

• Databases & Maps in Message Flows

Introduction; Using database to store routing information; Database Nodes; Adding a database definition; Database selection; Adding a database definition; Database Nodes; Compute Node; Selecting data from database; Defining the ESQL; Defining the XML message; Using a WHERE command; Selecting data from database using variables; Defining and using maps; USING; What is the relation between maps and ESQL?; Mapping Editor.

• Advanced Message Flow Topics

Accounting & Statistics; Statistics data details; Statistics data details commands; Publish & Subscribe; Publisher & Subscriber applications; Writing Publish & Subscribe applications; Creating; Subscribe examples; Listing subscriptions in the Broker; Publication Flows; PSCR error codes; Controlled throwing of exceptions.

• Additional Processing Nodes

REQUEST/REPLY; MQGET Node; TIMER Node; Email Output Node (Email Drawer).

• Processing Data in Files

Introduction; File Input Node; The file location; Setting the Environment Variable; File Output Node.

• Java Message Service

Java Message Service - an introduction; What is JMS?; JMS administered objects; JNDI namespace; Connection factory; A JMS destination; Destination targetclient; MQ messages the MQRFH2 format; JMS messages - an introduction; JMS message types; Simplified JMS representation; JMS Nodes.

• Service Oriented Architecture

Introduction; Web Services Description Language; SOAP; The structure of a SOAP message; SCA Nodes.

• Patterns

Patterns introduction; Pattern instance project; Patterns available message-based integration patterns; Service enablement patterns; Patterns available service virtualization patterns; File processing patterns; Application integration patterns; Pattern explore.Training method

The course contains valuable and extensive hands-on exercises that demonstrate all the major aspects of IBM Integration Bus.