Changing connection details for Siebel adapters

Siebel nodes can get Siebel connection details from either the adapter component or a configurable service. By using configurable services, you can change the connection details for adapters without the need to redeploy the adapters. To pick up new values when a configurable service is created or modified, you must reload the integration node or integration server to which the adapter was deployed, by using the mqsistop and mqsistart commands, or the mqsireload command.

Before you begin

Read WebSphere Adapters nodes and Configurable services for background information.

About this task

Use the SiebelConnection configurable service to change connection details for a Siebel adapter. The Siebel node reads all connection properties from the adapter component that it is configured to use. If a configurable service exists that has the same name as the adapter component of the node, the node uses the values that are defined in that configurable service to override the corresponding properties from the adapter. If a configurable service is being used, all properties that are exposed by the configurable service are taken from the configurable service. The only properties that are taken from the adapter are those that you cannot set on the configurable service. The properties of the Siebel configurable service are described in Configurable services properties.

You can also connect to different versions of Siebel by creating a custom EISProviders configurable service and setting the location of the appropriate library files. For more information, see Connecting to different versions of Siebel.

Creating, changing, reporting, and deleting configurable services

Procedure

To create a configurable service, use the web user interface or the mqsicreateconfigurableservice command, as shown in the following example.
This example creates a SiebelConnection configurable service for the Siebel instance that is running on my.siebel.qa.com:
```
mqsicreateconfigurableservice IBNODE -c SiebelConnection -o mySiebelAdapter.outadapter 
-n connectString -v "siebel://my.siebel.qa.com/SBA_80/SSEObjMgr_enu"
```
To pick up the new values in the configurable service, restart the integration server and message flow.
To change a configurable service, use the web user interface or the mqsichangeproperties command, as shown in the following example.
This example changes the connections that are used by the adapter mySiebelAdapter.outadapter. After you run this command, all adapters connect to the production system (my.siebel.production.com) instead of the test system (my.siebel.qa.com):
```
mqsichangeproperties IBNODE -c SiebelConnection -o mySiebelAdapter.outadapter -n connectString 
-v "siebel://my.siebel.production.com/SBA_80/SSEObjMgr_enu"
```
To pick up the updated values in the configurable service, restart the integration server and message flow.
To display all SiebelConnection configurable services, use the web user interface or the mqsireportproperties command, as shown in the following example:
```
mqsireportproperties IBNODE -c SiebelConnection -o AllReportableEntityNames -r
```
To delete a configurable service that you created, use the web user interface or the mqsideleteconfigurableservice command, as shown in the following example:
```
mqsideleteconfigurableservice IBNODE -c SiebelConnection -o mySiebelAdapter.outadapter
```
You can delete only configurable services that you created; you cannot delete IBM® predefined configurable service templates.