Initial Settings for Property Files

In Sterling B2B Integrator, property files are first generated during the installation in the install_dir/properties (UNIX/Linux) directory or the install_dir\properties (Windows) directory.

Their values come from initialization files that are shipped with Sterling B2B Integrator. The initialization files are stored in the same directory as the operational property files.

For example, the property settings in the jdbc.properties.in file are used to create or modify the settings in the jdbc.properties file. During operations, Sterling B2B Integrator references the jdbc.properties file.

With very few exceptions, if you need to override or change the value of a property, you will edit the customer_overrides.properties file to do so. Do not modify or change any properties in files ending with .in because newer versions or patches of the product will overwrite your changes. Do not change a property file that has a corresponding .in file because the setupfiles script will re-create the properties file again, thus causing you to lose your changes. If you need to override or change the value of a property, see the topic Overriding Properties.

For example, if you change the contents of the jdbc.properties.in file and then run setupfiles.sh (UNIX/Linux) or setupfiles.cmd (Windows), the change will be applied to the jdbc.properties file. If you made this change directly in the jdbc.properties file, the change would be lost during a patch or upgrade installation, or during a system restart that uses the setupfiles command.

After you run the setupfiles command, the old versions of the property files that have been updated are stored in the (UNIX/Linux) install_dir/properties/backups directory or the (Windows) install_dir\properties\backups directory.