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Changing connection information for the IMSRequest node

You can create a configurable service that the IMSRequest node or message flow refers to at run time for connection information, instead of defining the connection properties on the node or the message flow. The advantage being that you can change the host name, performance, and security values without needing to redeploy your message flow.

Before you start:

Read Configurable services to find out more about configurable services.
Read IBM Information Management System (IMS) for background information.

Use the IMSConnect configurable service to change the connection information for the IMSRequest node. Two configurable services can connect to the same instance of IMS Connect. The properties of the IMSConnect configurable service are described in Configurable services properties.

You can use the IMSConnect configurable service to configure the IMSRequest node to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. For more information, see Securing the connection to IMS by using SSL.

Creating, changing, reporting, and deleting configurable services

To create a configurable service, use the IBM® Integration Explorer; see Using the IBM Integration Explorer to work with configurable services for more information, or the mqsicreateconfigurableservice command, as shown in the following example. This example creates an IMSConnect configurable service for the IMS instance IMSA that is running on test.ims.ibm.com port 9999:
```
mqsicreateconfigurableservice IB9NODE -c IMSConnect -o myIMSConnectService
-n Hostname,PortNumber,DataStoreName -v test.ims.ibm.com,9999,IMSA
```
To change a configurable service, use the IBM Integration Explorer, or the mqsichangeproperties command, as shown in the following example. You must stop and start the integration server for the change of property value to take effect. This example changes all the nodes that are configured to use the myIMSConnectService configurable service. After you run this command, the IMSRequest node connects to the production system (production.ims.ibm.com) instead of the test system (test.ims.ibm.com). The command also changes to coded character set identifier (CCSID) to 37.
```
mqsichangeproperties IB9NODE -c IMSConnect -o myIMSConnectService -n Hostname,CodedCharSetID 
-v production.ims.ibm.com,37
```
See Securing the connection to IMS by using SSL for information about how to turn on SSL support in the broker by setting the UseSSL and SSLEncryptionType IMSConnect configurable service properties.
To display all IMSConnect configurable services, use the IBM Integration Explorer, or the mqsireportproperties command, as shown in the following example:
```
mqsireportproperties IB9NODE -c IMSConnect -o AllReportableEntityNames -r
```
You can delete a configurable service that you have created by using the IBM Integration Explorer, or the mqsideleteconfigurableservice command, as shown in the following example:
```
mqsideleteconfigurableservice IB9NODE -c IMSConnect -o myIMSconnectService
```
You can delete only custom-named configurable services; you cannot delete IBM-defined configurable services.

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Last updated Friday, 21 July 2017