Publish channel scripts

Publish channels provide the outbound integration foundation of IBM® Maximo® Manage. Publish channels can be event-enabled so that when some Maximo business objects are added, updated, or deleted, these channels can trap those events and publish a message to the outbound Java™ message service queues. You can also do offline exports by using the channel from the External Systems application or from cron jobs to start the export API of the channel. The messages then get picked up from those queues and get pushed to their final destination by using the endpoint and handler framework.

Publish channels support the following script points:

Table 1. Publish channel script points
Script point	Purpose
Event filters	Used for to filter publish channel events.
External exits	Used to transform data of outbound messages from Maximo format `irData` to external format `erData`.
User exit before external exit	Used to update data without structural change to the Maximo format message `irData`.
User exit after external exit	Used to transform data from the output of the external exit to the target external format.