IBM® App Connect Enterprise controls the
behavior of your message flows, and defines the default actions that
are taken if you do not modify the message flow behavior.
The following default actions are provided for all messages that
are processed by your message flows:
- The execution and threading model
- When you deploy a message flow to an integration server, App Connect Enterprise allocates a certain number of
threads to that message flow. For further information about how this
processing works, see Execution and threading models in a message flow.
- Error handling
- When you configure your message flows to process messages, you
can include error processing of your own. App Connect Enterprise runs default processing if an
error occurs for which you have not provided additional processing;
this processing is independent of the protocol that you are using
for communication. It is described in Default error handling.
- Transactional support
- App Connect Enterprise handles all messages
individually, and does not relate an action taken by the message flow
to other actions, processes, or messages. A message flow that is not
configured to implement transactional support succeeds or fails regardless
of the outcome of interactions with, or updates to, other resources
such as IBM MQ queues and databases.
Learn more about transactional support in Message flow transactions.
- Data conversion
- Different hardware platforms and operating systems operate in
different code pages. Operating system code pages are also affected
by the locale in which you operate. App Connect Enterprise does
not allow for these differences unless you change some aspects of
its configuration. If you are exchanging messages between unlike systems,
you might have to update App Connect Enterprise or IBM MQ configuration, or design and
supply your own conversion procedures.
For information about how you can change the configuration of App Connect Enterprise, its IBM MQ queue manager, and your message
flows to influence these behaviors, see Changing message flow behavior.