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IBM United States
Software Announcement 203-187
July 29, 2003
IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1 and IBM WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.2.1
enhancements
 ENUS203-187.PDF (37KB)
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At a glance
IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1 — a key component of WebSphere Business Integration Server
V4.2.1:
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Automates and synchronizes business processes across multiple business applications
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Is compatible with an extensive portfolio of IBM WebSphere Business Integration adapters and
collaborations to accelerate process implementation
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Helps implement rapid solutions to address specific business integration challenges
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Expands and grows with requirements to solve complex business integration problems requiring a wide
variety of integration capabilities
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at
800-IBM-CALL
(Reference: YE001).
Overview
IBM WebSphere® InterChange Server is a key component of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server
and addresses the need for efficiency and flexibility in automating and synchronizing business
activities executed across multiple applications as business processes.
V4.2.1 provides additional platform support and tooling enhancements. The tools for the InterChange
Server are provided as WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.2.1.
New in IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1
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HP-UX 11i support
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AIX® 5.2 support
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Oracle 9i Release 2 support
New support in IBM WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.2.1
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System Manager upgraded to V2 of Eclipse standard
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Plug-in support for WebSphere Studio upgraded to V5
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System Manager adds WebSphere Application Server V5 as a support option
Key prerequisites
A supported Web server is needed to deploy the Web-based system monitoring capability.
A supported RDBMS needs to be acquired as a repository for WebSphere InterChange Server. Where
InterChange Server is acquired as a component of a WebSphere Business Integration Server solution, a
restricted use license is available for IBM DB2 Universal Database® V8.1 for this purpose.
A supported RDBMS needs to be acquired as a repository for WebSphere Business Integration Toolset
only if using the Integrated Test Environment facility.
Refer to the
Software requirements
and
Hardware requirements
sections for more details.
Planned availability dates
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IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.2.1
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations
July 31, 2003: Electronic delivery September 5, 2003: Media packs
Description
WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1
WebSphere InterChange Server is available as a component of IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Server V4.2.1. It addresses the need for efficiency and flexibility in automating and synchronizing
business activities executed across multiple applications as business processes.
New in WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1
WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1 extends the feature release of V4.2 with additional platform
support:
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HP-UX 11i Operating System
You can preserve your investment in applications and skills for the HP-UX platform when evaluating
the return on investment of business integration projects.
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Oracle 9i Release 2
Oracle 9i database delivers performance and scalability, especially when combined with AIX 5L
Version 5.2.
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IBM AIX 5L V5.2 Operating System
AIX 5L V5.2 integrates innovative technologies to help achieve maximum performance, reliability, and
flexibility in today's e-business environment. New to V5.2 is Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR)
that allows system resources including processors, memory, and other components, to be assigned to
independent partitions, without rebooting the system. The ability to allocate resources without
interruption eases system management and contributes to lower total cost of ownership because the
resources are better utilized.
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.2.1
New in WebSphere Business Integration Toolset 4.2.1
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Eclipse standard Version 2 support
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.2.1
delivers an extensible, integration studio and tooling based on WebSphere Workbench, from V1 to V2
of the Eclipse open standard for tooling. The studio provides an extensible, team-based, visual
design environment, together with the process integration development and administration tools, to
support the WebSphere InterChange Server.
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Java™ Plug-in support for WebSphere Studio upgraded to V5
Provides the ability to combine
integration projects with new Java applications development in a single extensible Integrated
Development Environment (IDE).
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System Manager adds WebSphere Application Server V5 as a support option
Introduced in the
4.2 release, the Web-based system monitoring console manages WebSphere InterChange Servers via a Web
browser including support of an optional choice of a Web server that supports Java Server Pages and
Java Servlets. WebSphere Application Server V5 supports this capability.
Providing monitoring and management capabilities securely over the Internet is a critical
requirement for virtually every customer — be it a customer managing a large multinational
deployment or a smaller customer simply trying to manage a single installation during off hours.
The System Manager provides the ability to monitor the key components of the WebSphere InterChange
Server and the ability to manage (for example, Start, Stop, Pause) these components from a Web
browser. The Web-based interface is configurable, providing both table and graphical "widget"-based
views, with many pre-configured monitors provided.
Withdrawal of V4.2 media pack
The V4.2 media pack is replaced by:
Part
Description number
IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.1 AF03NML
Multiplatform, Multilingual -- includes
-- IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Toolset V4.2.1
-- IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Collaborations
Effective September 26, 2003, the following media pack will be withdrawn:
Part
Description number
IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2 AF03MML
Multiplatform, Multilingual -- includes
-- IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Toolset V4.2
-- IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Collaborations
Orders for this part number will not be accepted after the stated effective date of withdrawal.
Reference information
For more information on IBM WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2, IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Toolset V4.2, IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations, and product ordering
information, refer to Software Announcement
203-060
, dated March 4, 2003, or visit:
For information on IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server V4.2, refer
to Software Announcement
203-064
, dated March 4, 2003.
For information on IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server V4.2.1,
refer to Software Announcement
203-186
, dated July 29, 2003.
Order now
To order, contact the Americas Call Centers, your local IBM
representative, or your IBM Business Partner.
To identify your local IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, call
800-IBM-4YOU (426-4968).
Phone: 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255)
Fax: 800-2IBM-FAX (242-6329)
Internet: ibm_direct@vnet.ibm.com
Mail: The Americas Call Centers
Dept. YE001
P.O. Box 2690
Atlanta, GA 30301-2690
Reference: YE001
The Americas Call Centers, our national direct marketing organization,
can add your name to the mailing list for catalogs of IBM products.
Note:
Shipments will begin after the planned availability date.
Trademarks
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WebSphere, AIX, and DB2 Universal Database are registered trademarks of
International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other
countries or both.
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Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service
marks of others.
Hardware requirements
Listed below are minimum requirements. The actual requirements for your system may be greater,
depending on the complexity of your specific IBM activities environment, throughput, and data object
size.
For more details, refer to the
System Installation Guide for Windows®
and the
System Installation Guide for UNIX®
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Windows environment (Server):
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Processor: An IBM
 xSeries®
and Intel®-based system (or equivalent) with a minimum processor speed of 1 GHz or dual
processors, each with a minimum speed of 667 MHz (for high availability)
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RAM: 512 MB
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Disk space: 40 GB; for high availability, a mirrored 9 GB boot disk and a mirrored 18 GB shared
disk
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Additional high-availability hardware requirements:
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Microsoft™ certified cluster machine
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Shared disk subsystem with RAID
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Windows environment (Toolset):
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Processor: An IBM xSeries and
Intel-based system (or equivalent) with a minimum processor speed of 400 MHz
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RAM: 256 MB
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Disk space: 10 GB
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AIX® environment (Server)
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Processor: An IBM pSeries™
or RS/6000® system with either a uniprocessor or symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) and a minimum
processor speed of 375 MHz; for high availability, a symmetric multiprocessor with a minimum
processor speed of 600 MHz
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RAM: 512 MB; for high availability, 2 GB
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Disk space: 40 GB; for high availability, a minimum of 4 hard disks, each with 36 GB capacity per
system
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Solaris environment (Server)
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Processor: A Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC processor system with a minimum processor speed of 450 MHz
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RAM: 512 MB
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Disk space: 40 GB; for high availability, a minimum of 4 hard disks, each with 18 GB capacity per
system
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HP-UX environment (Server)
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Processor: A Hewlett-Packard HP-9000 processor system with a minimum processor speed of
440 MHz
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RAM: 512 MB
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Disk space: 40 GB
Software requirements
For more details, refer to the
System Installation Guide for Windows
and the
System Installation Guide for UNIX
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Additional considerations for WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations
For the telecommunication flow definition templates bundled with the following telecommunications
collaborations, a customer must have the required IBM MQSeries® Workflow V3.3.2 or WebSphere MQ
Workflow V3.4 software.
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Product Development and Retirement
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Customer Order Handling
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Customer Service Configuration and Activation
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Resource Provisioning and Allocation
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Customer Billing Management
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Customer Problem Handling
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Fault Resolution
For the retail flow definition templates, bundled with the following retail collaborations, a
customer must have the required IBM MQSeries Workflow V3.3.2 or WebSphere MQ Workflow V3.4 software.
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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for Merchandise Qualification
For IBM WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration for RosettaNet PIPs, customers must also
purchase the following prerequisite products in addition to those required by the WebSphere
InterChange Server:
Trademarks
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The e-business logo, pSeries, and SupportPac are trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
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xSeries, AIX, RS/6000, WebSphere, DB2 Universal Database, DB2, MQSeries, and VisualAge are
registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other
countries or both.
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Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
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Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States and other countries.
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ClearCase and Rational are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation and Rational Software
Corporation, in the United States, other Countries or both.
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Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
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