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Prerequisite skills
Installing
Administering
Developing
Education
Troubleshooting
 




Prerequisite skills

These resources provide background knowledge that you should have prior to using InterChange Server.

Technical Introduction to IBM WebSphere InterChange Server (Manual, pdf)
This document introduces the infrastructure and other major elements of a system that implements InterChange Server as the integration broker for a WebSphere business integration system.
WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations Reference Guide (G325-2001-01) (Manual, pdf)
This reference guide discusses how jump-starting your business integration projects with WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations can help decrease costs, minimize risk and accelerate time to realized business value. Collaborations help support new ways of doing business by separating your business processes from the applications used to perform them, maximizing your ability to reuse existing assets and giving your systems more flexibility.
A Technical Introduction to Adapters (Manual, pdf)
This document provides an introduction to the concepts and architecture underlying IBM WebSphere Business Integration adapters and describes their structure and operation.


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Installing

These resources describe the mechanics of installing and migrating InterChange Server.

System Installation Guide for UNIX (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to install, start up, and set up the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system in a UNIX environment. It assumes that you are installing the products on an AIX(R) platform. Any differences for Solaris(R) or HP-UX are called out where necessary.
System Installation Guide for Windows (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to install, configure and start up the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server software in a Windows environment.
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Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to install the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters in Windows, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX environments.


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Administering

These resources guide you in the daily administration of application servers and their deployed applications.

System Administration Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to monitor, operate, and troubleshoot the WebSphere InterChange Server system.
Implementation Guide for WebSphere InterChange Server (Manual, pdf)
This document provides an overview of the tasks for implementing a business integration system with WebSphere InterChange Server.


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Developing

These resources assist in developing tools in InterChange Server, and applications to work with InterChange Server.

Access Development Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to use the IBM Server Access Interface APIs to enable a call-triggered flow capability. A call-triggered flow is one that is initiated by an access client process, which can then create business objects and execute collaborations.
Access Development Guide for Enterprise JavaBeans (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to program a J2EE application component to use the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server Access for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) to access EIS applications that are managed through InterChange Server.
Access Development Guide for J2EE Connector Architecture (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to program a J2EE application component to use the WebSphere Access Resource Adapter (sometimes called the Resource Adapter for the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server) to access EIS applications that are managed through the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server.
Business Object Development Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to use Business Object Designer to create business object definitions, both manually and using an Object Discovery Agent (ODA). Object Discovery Agents are designed to"discover" business object requirements specific to a data source and to generate definitions from those requirements. Business Object Designer provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to the available Object Discovery Agents, and helps manage the discovery and definition generation processes. This document also explains how to use the Object Discovery Agent Development Kit (ODK) to create Object Discovery Agents.
Collaboration Development Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to use Process Designer to create collaborations, which are part of the WebSphere InterChange Server infrastructure. Collaborations are programs that contain the business logic for application integration.
Map Development Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document provides an introduction to the use of maps and relationships and describes how to use IBM WebSphere tools for creating and modifying them.
Benchmarking Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes the tools and tasks used to benchmark the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system. It is designed to explain the benchmark user interface and functionality, but it does not cover how to interpret a benchmark and modify IBM WebSphere InterChange Server content in response to such an interpretation.
WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations Reference Guide (G325-2001-01) (Manual, pdf)
This reference guide discusses how jump-starting your business integration projects with WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations can help decrease costs, minimize risk and accelerate time to realized business value. Collaborations help support new ways of doing business by separating your business processes from the applications used to perform them, maximizing your ability to reuse existing assets and giving your systems more flexibility.
Connector Development Guide for Java (Manual, pdf)
This document describes the development of Java connectors in the IBM WebSphere business integration system.
Connector Development Guide for C++ (Manual, pdf)
This document describes the development of C++ connectors in the IBM WebSphere business integration system.
Adapter Development Kit User Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes how to configure and run samples for the adapter development kit (ADK) that are included in the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters product.
Data Handler Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document describes delivered data handlers and custom data handler capabilities.


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Education

The BI101 course, "Implementing WebSphere InterChange Server and Toolset", is the starting point for InterChange Server education. Courses BI140, BI141, and BI160 can be taken in any order. If you are new to WebSphere Business Integration and need to create an adapter, you can take BI161.

WebSphere Business Integration Server - Implementing WebSphere InterChange Server and Toolset - BI101 (Classroom course)
Build the foundation for the Business Integration Server technical curriculum. Examine the architecture, components, processes, and procedures involved in implementing an integrated solution.
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset - Advanced Mapping - BI140 (Classroom course)
Get hands-on experience with many typical and atypical business challenges related to data transformation. Examine basic business rules, such as those related to reformatting data parsing values, padding characters for legacy integration, and manipulating business object verbs. Intermediate topics include polymorphic mapping and managing transformations between applications that have varying degree of normalization in the design of their data structures. Advanced topics include encapsulating logic in custom classes for simplified deployment and maintenance and building a collaboration template that calls a map. Because mapping is extensively used in all WebSphere Business Integration, this is a critical course for successfully implementing the InterChange Server.
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset - Advanced Cross-Referencing - BI141 (Classroom course)
Explore static lookups, foreign key cross referencing, and complex child level cross referencing in-depth. Work with cross-referencing methods for dealing with data that is stored as different values in disparate applications.
WebSphere Business Integration Adapters - Adapter Development - BI160 (Classroom course)
Learn how to construct WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) adapters. Using the Eclipse development environment, develop an adapter in Java, based on a sample application, and learn how to deploy and test it.
WebSphere Business Integration Adapters - Adapter for mySAP.com - BI201 (Workshop)
In this workshop, explore the complete WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server connectivity suite for SAP R/3, including the Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) Extension Module, Application Link Enabling (ALE) Module, Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) Module, Hierarchical Dynamic Retrieve (HDR) Module, and Remote Function Call (RFC) Server Module.
WebSphere Business Integration - Introduction to WebSphere Business Integration and Adapter Development - BI161 (Classroom course)
Learn the basics of WebSphere Business Integration (WBI), spend time on using the tools to construct business objects, adapter controllers, and other components and then gain a thorough understanding of how to construct WBI adapters.
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Troubleshooting

These resources help you to diagnosis, understand, fix, and sometimes to prevent functional problems in your InterChange Server environment.

Problem Determination Guide (Manual, pdf)
This document contains troubleshooting and problem determination information for the WebSphere InterChange Server system.
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