Using the IBM Integration Explorer to work with configurable services

Instead of defining properties on the message flow node or message flow, you can create configurable services so that message flow nodes and message flows can refer to them to find properties at run time. If you use this method, you can change the values of attributes for a configurable service on the integration node, which then affects the behavior of a message flow node or message flow without the need for redeployment.

For most types of configurable service, your changes will take effect from the next time a message flow that uses the configurable service is called. For some types of configurable service, for which it is explicitly stated in the documentation, you must stop and start the integration server for the change to take effect.

You can create and name new configurable services, based on IBM defined templates. Alternatively, you can modify the existing IBM defined configurable services. If you modify an IBM defined configurable services, their default values are overwritten in the system registry.

Alternatively, you can use the runtime commands to work with configurable services, see Configurable services.

For a full list of configurable services and their properties, see Configurable services properties.