Process Center repository

You can use the Process Center repository to share artifacts with other users who are developing process applications and toolkits.

Tip: IBM Integration Designer supports a range of servers, runtime deployment environments and capabilities. Verify that you have enabled the capabilities and features for which you are licensed in order to perform tasks such as those in this section. See Business integration capabilities for information on capabilities and functions.

To work with the Process Center repository, you must know how to access it, import process applications and toolkits from it, and associate modules and libraries with its process applications and toolkits. You must also know how to use the wizard that generates a service that a process application might require. Finally, you must know how to synchronize your artifacts with their associated process applications and toolkits, deploy a completed process application or toolkit, and understand the limitations when you are working with the Process Center repository.

• Access the Process Center repository
  To work with process applications and toolkits, you must access the Process Center repository.
• Importing process applications and toolkits from the Process Center repository
  

  You can import process applications and toolkits into your workspace from the Process Center repository, and then you can use them with your modules and libraries.

• Switching between simple and advanced mode
  

  You can customize your mode of operation to show only what you need.

• Associating a module or library with a process application or toolkit
  

  You can associate a module or library with a process application or toolkit to add additional functions to the application, or to take advantage of version control on the Process Center.

• Disassociating a module or library from a process application or toolkit
  When you disassociate a module or library from a process application or toolkit, you remove the association between the workspace and Process Center artifacts.

  You disassociate a module or library when it is no longer needed by the process application.

• Getting updates from the Process Center repository
  Process applications and toolkits are often updated by users. The Refresh from Process Center command updates your workspace with relevant changes that have taken place on the Process Center; for example, changes to toolkit dependencies.
• Sending updates to the Process Center repository
  As you update your process applications and toolkits, you will want to likewise update the corresponding process applications and toolkits in the Process Center with your changes. The Publish and Refresh command updates the Process Center with the changes in your workspace.
• Implementing an Advanced Integration service
  

  If a process application in your workspace requires an Advanced Integration service, you can use a wizard to create the basic components that you need.

• Create an export to implement an Advanced Integration Service
  Creating an export is an alternative way to implement an Advanced Integration Service. If you drag-and-drop icons from the assembly editor palette to create exports, this approach could be a simpler way for you to implement the service.
• Create an import to invoke a Business Process Definition
  A service may need information from a Business Process Definition in Process Designer; for example, information on an employee's hiring status. An import can be created to invoke the Business Process Definition with the required information.
• Making operations visible to process applications
  

  If you have an SCA export and implementation, you can make it visible to Process Designer as an Advanced Integration Service.

• Examining the Process Designer configuration
  

  You can launch the Advanced Integration service configuration in Process Designer corresponding to your Advanced Service implementation, which can be helpful when you are developing the service in Integration Designer.

• Emulating an advanced integration service
  

  You can choose to run an implemented advanced integration service in the emulate mode, which means that you do not actually need to run the service during playback. You can emulate the interactions of the service by manually entering the outputs. This is useful if you want to test the business process when the service is not available.

• Changing toolkit dependencies
  A process application can reference only one toolkit snapshot but that reference can be changed.
• Loading snapshots to the workspace
  To view and manage a specific iteration of a process application and toolkit, you can download a snapshot to your workspace. A snapshot is a capture of a process application or toolkit, at a specific point in time.
• Synchronizing the workspace artifacts to the Process Center repository
  While you are updating an artifact, another user might be updating the same artifact at the same time. To make sure that you are using the latest version of an artifact, you must synchronize the versions that exist in the workspace and the Process Center repository.
• Changing connection properties for process applications and toolkits
  

  If your process applications and toolkits are moved to another server, for example, because of a hardware failure, you must update your connection properties.

• Rename a module or library associated with a process application or toolkit
  

  If you have modules and libraries associated with a process application or toolkit, be aware that renaming the module or library requires you to remove any dependencies and to disassociate the library or module before changing its name.

• Importing an SSL security certificate into Integration Designer
  In order to connect to an HTTPS enabled server, you need to import the SSL security certificate (X509Certificate ) for the server.
• Library mirroring
  In a collaborative development environment between IBM Integration Designer and IBM Process Designer artifacts like business objects are shared in libraries. Library mirroring means that when you put an artifact in your library in Integration Designer it is made available to others working with the same library in Process Designer who are using the same process application or toolkit.
• Guidance when working with the Process Center
  Associating modules and libraries with process applications and toolkits in the Process Center changes the way you work based on previous releases.
• Considerations when using bindings
  Different bindings interact with process applications and toolkits in various ways. You should consider the following suggestions and be aware of some rules and conventions.
• Limitations when working with process applications and toolkits
  Differences between the modules and libraries created in your workspace and the process applications and toolkits that originated in the Process Center repository mean that there are some limitations when you develop business processes in this collaborative environment.