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Properties enabled for bidirectional data transformation
Bidirectional (bidi) data transformation properties control the format of bidirectional script data exchanged between an application or file system and integration tools and runtime environments. After these properties are set, bidirectional script data is correctly processed and displayed in IBM Integration Designer and IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
At design time all properties enabled for bidirectional transformation can be configured using the external service wizard and all business object bidi properties can be configured using the Business Object Editor tool in the IBM Integration Designer. At deployment time, all managed connection factory and activation specification bidi properties can be configured using the IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Process Administrative Console.
Bidirectional properties are divided into three types:
- EIS bidirectional format - Specifies the bidirectional format for string type business data exchanged between the mail server and the adapter.
- Metadata bidirectional format - Specifies the bidirectional format for metadata and configuration data of string type used by the adapter to establish and maintain communication with the mail server. This format includes both configuration properties such as User name and application-specific information stored in business object definitions (XSD files) and business object attributes.
- Event persistence bidirectional format - Specifies the bidirectional format for event persistence properties.
The following table shows property types characterized by bidi format.
Bidi formats Level of property definition Bidirectional enabled property name Property name as it appears in the wizard Property name as it appears in the Process Administrative Console Managed connection factory (MCF) properties MCF-related properties BiDi format string BiDiContextEIS Activation specification (AS) properties AS-related properties EIS BiDi Format BiDiContextEIS Activation specification properties All event persistence properties Event Persistence BiDi Format BiDiFormatEP Business object (BO) BO-related properties EIS BiDi Format BiDiContextEIS Business object BO-related properties Metadata BiDi Format BiDiContextMetadata All the bidi supported configuration properties for both inbound and outbound communication are shown in the following tables.
Only properties of string type are enabled for bidirectional transformation. Integer properties, such as port and host, the host name property, and Boolean type properties cannot be enabled for bidirectional transformation.
Managed connection factory properties
The following managed connection properties control the bidirectional transformation during outbound communications.
- User name
- Password
The Protocol managed connection factory property is not enabled for bidirectional transformation because it maintains a constant value for the SMTP protocol.
Activation specification properties
The following activation specification properties control the bidirectional transformation during inbound communications.
- Archive file naming pattern
- Archive folder
- Database
- Database schema name
- User name used to connect to event data source
- Event recovery data source (JNDI) name
- Event recovery table name
- Failed events folder
- Password
- Poll folder
- Staging directory
- User name
Substring searches for globalized characters are not supported by the Java™ Mail API, so MatchAllCriteria and MatchSomeCriteria properties are not enabled for bidirectional transformation.
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