The integration node controls the behavior
of your message flows, and defines what actions are taken if you do
not change that behavior.
The integration node provides the following default actions 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, the integration node
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. The integration node runs default
processing if an error occurs that you have not provided additional
processing for; this processing is independent of the protocol that
you are using to communicate with the integration node. It is described in Default error handling.
- Transactional support
- The integration node 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 WebSphere® 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. The integration node 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 integration node or WebSphere MQ configuration,
or design and supply your own conversion procedures.
For information about how you can change the configuration of your
integration node, its WebSphere MQ queue manager,
and your message flows to influence these behaviors, see Changing message flow behavior.