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Roadmap for configuring the module
Before you can use WebSphere Adapter for IBM i in a runtime environment, configure the module. Understanding this task at a high level helps you perform the steps that are needed to accomplish the task.
You configure the module for the adapter to use by using IBM Integration Designer. The following figure illustrates the flow of the configuration task, and the steps that follow the figure describe this task at a high level only. See the topics that follow this road map for the details on how to perform each of these steps.
Figure 1. Roadmap for configuring the module
Configure the module for deployment environment
This task consists of the following step:
- Configure the IBM i system to work with your adapter. You perform this step from within the IBM i system.
- Create an authentication alias to access the IBM i system with an encrypted password. This step is optional, depending on your policy for handling passwords and IDs. You perform this step using the server.
- Create the project. First, start the external service wizard in IBM Integration Designer to begin the process of creating and deploying a module. The wizard creates a project used to organize the files associated with the module.
- Set connection properties that the external service wizard needs to connect to the IBM i system for discovery of objects and services.
- Configure the module for inbound processing or outbound processing by using the external service wizard to find and select business objects and services from the IBM i system, and to generate business object definitions and related artifacts.
- Select business objects and services for inbound or outbound processing from the business integration components discovered by the external service wizard.
The required services on the IBM i server to create data queues must be running for inbound processing. Also, ensure that the required control language (CL) program files for inbound processing are copied in the correct directories and are running. The CL program is used to transfer data to DTAQ.
- Edit and run the query that discovers objects that you can access.
- Select and configure business objects for inbound processing or outbound processing.
- Configure the selected objects by specifying operations and other properties that apply to all the business objects.
- Set deployment properties that the adapter uses to connect to the IBM i system at run time. Then, generate the service by using the external service wizard to save the new module, which contains the business object or objects you configured, the import file or export file, and the service interface.
- Select business objects and services for inbound or outbound processing from the business integration components discovered by the external service wizard.