IT24583: RFE: WHITELIST FUNCTION FOR ICC & IBM STERLING B2B INTEGRATOR BUSINESS PROCESS INCLUSION

Media_IM_5020602_6
Media_IM_5020602_6
iSeries_Media_5020602_6.zip
iSeries_Media_5020602_6.zip

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• ICC provides the ability to monitor business processes (BPs)
  and then configure if you want to include them.  This allows
  you to define to monitor in ICC only what BP's you wish to
  monitor.  The architecture is that the system will by default
  monitoring everything but then ONLY exclude what you select to
  exclude.  This means that in essence you have to define what
  you want to exclude and the more that is excluded, the slower
  it performs as it must check the exclusion list at each monitor
  step.  Test showed evidence that excluding close to the maximum
  number of BP's will in fact slow down processing.
  
  This is a product enhancement request to have an ICC change so
  you can explicitly select what BPs to include (whitelist) or
  exclude (blacklist) without impacting performance.
  

Local fix

• STRRTC - 565897
  LB / RW
  Circumvention: None
  

Problem summary

• Users Affected:
  ICC Control Center Users
  
  Problem Description:
  ICC provides the ability to monitor business processes and
  define what business processes need to be excluded from the
  monitoring. The more that is excluded, though the slower it
  performs as it must check the exclusion list at each monitor
  step.
  
  Platforms Affected:
  ALL
  

Problem conclusion

• Resolution Summary:
  This is an enhancement to allow ICC to explicitly select what to
  include (whitelist) or exclude (blacklist) without impacting
  performance.  This enhancement is compatibile with ICC 6.1.1.0
  iFix01 and above.
  
  In ICC to enable the white list support customers will need to
  add an element named BP_BLACK_LIST, with a value of FALSE, to
  the engine.properties data, and then stop and restart ICC.
  Customers can make this change any time on ICC.  It won't take
  affect until ICC is restarted. Once customers have done that,
  and reconnect the ICC console, and look at the properties for
  the SI server, and specifically show the BPs being monitored,
  customers  will see that the selection list changed to allowing
  them to deselect the BPs that they do not want monitored.  With
  the white list approach (BP_BLACK_LIST FALSE), customers should
  just check the BPs they want monitored.
  
  Delivered in:
  5020602_6
  5020603_6
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  STR B2B INTEGRA

• Fixed component ID

  5725D0600

Applicable component levels