Software Announcement September 24, 2002 IBM WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel extends integrator′s platform coverage Overview WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel delivers business At a glance WebSphere MQ Integrator integration through information Broker for HP NonStop Kernel, connectivity. It enables: Integrate, link, and control central to the IBM WebSphere information flow between your • software platform, helps you: Connection of disparate, business systems incompatible business systems so • Create, deploy, and control that information can be accessed Available in 2002: regardless of where it resides message-based business • solutions HP NonStop Kernel platform • Intelligent routing of information support • based on the content of the Integrate existing applications • with new e-business requirements information being sent National Language Support (U.S. English and Japanese) • • Publication of relevant Integrate applications within • enterprises information only to those Improved message repository interested manager (MRM) support for • Connect applications between XML messages, performance, enterprises and their suppliers • Delivery of information to mobile and tagged messages devices, quickly and securely WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker is • Extensions to ESQL capability available on the following platforms: Key prerequisites • DTD import capability • HP-UX Refer to the Hardware and Software • Message aggregation capability • Solaris requirements sections. • AIX Available in 2003: • Windows NT , Windows 2000 Planned availability dates • z/OS • Visual debugging tools • HP NonStop Kernel • October 31, 2002: Electronic • Support for plug-in input nodes ′ Software Delivery What s new • Ability to author plug-in nodes • November 29, 2002: Physical written in Java WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for Media HP NonStop Kernel enhances the • MRM multipart tagged message flexibility and appeal of WebSphere • February 28, 2003: Physical support for formats such as EDI MQ Integrator. It is designed and Media and SWIFT implemented to maximize the advantages of the combination of the • User Name Server HP NonStop Server platform and IBM′s WebSphere MQ software. Open, yet secure...WebSphere MQ (See Description for more details.) Integrator cross-platform middleware is scalable and Span the divide between business manageable. processes and make consistent For ordering, contact: information accessible within and Your IBM representative, an IBM Business between enterprises. Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 Business integration The IBM WebSphere platform for e-business includes business integration software and solutions that help integrate a single department or pervade the entire enterprise, reaching across business channels, trading partners, and Web customers. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 202-239 WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel Description uses WebSphere MQ to send and receive messages between applications. Operations performed on the WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop messages include: Kernel • Filtering WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel • Computing (based on message content) technology is a powerful information broker that selects • Augmenting messages from business data and distributes information to the applications, databases, and people that need it. • Applying a variety of rules and routing functions, including publish and subscribe WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel maximizes the advantages of your HP NonStop Server Message formats can be self-defining, using XML, or environment, while maintaining full, standard defined using an IBM-provided format repository or functionality. The product′s multi-process, multi-threaded third-party message dictionaries. Predefined templates architecture provides good scalability for a mixed mean WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop workload including database operations, as well as Kernel can exchange information with major packaged CPU-intensive operations such as message applications. transformations. The ease by which you can integrate your NonStop applications using WebSphere MQ Benefits Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel has been significantly enhanced by allowing custom plug-in nodes WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel to use native HP NonStop communication mechanisms. offers flexibility for customers who do not need the rules For example, WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP and formatter functions but require all the other functions NonStop Kernel can be configured with a custom input provided by WebSphere MQ Integrator. node that can act as a TS/MP server; you can use TS/MP requester applications to drive integration message flows Benefits include: directly. The combination of WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel and MQSeries for NSK • Tagged Message Support running on the NonStop Server platform provides a − Ability to handle all types of industry message fault-tolerant, easy-to-use, flexible, and scalable platform formats for your enterprise integration hub. − Wider application to industry solutions Users can implement realtime, application-to-application message transformation and intelligent message routing • Enables industry-standard messages (SWIFT, EDI), quickly and easily. It is flexible so applications can be using complementary SupportPacs and IBM Services added, extended, or replaced within information flows. − A range of message format library support WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop Kernel − Solutions using these technologies is a cross-platform middleware application integration engine. This powerful information broker manages: • XML enhancements to the Message Repository Manager (MRM) • Business information integration − Supports industry-standard XML formats • Application integration − All formats integrated and managed consistently • Integrated application data with business data and builds a dynamic distribution mechanism for • Java environment for plug-in nodes information for users to subscribe to applications − Support for Java APIs when developing custom • Visualization of application flow through the use of a plug-ins graphical development environment − Industry momentum exploited for Java program In addition, WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP − Easier availability of skills to rapidly integrate NonStop Kernel: industry technologies through an open framework • Works closely with relational databases to augment • Plug-in API extensions (input nodes) messages and also to warehouse data − • Any industry application connects to the integration Can distribute messages, using a dynamic broker regardless of protocol publish/subscribe mechanism that enables the subscriber to filter messages based on content − Simpler, more direct integration across your enterprise • Exploits the transactional control offered by WebSphere MQ to provide end-to-end transactional integrity between applications Features • Is architected with a library of nodes produced by IBM Improved MRM: WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP and delivered with the product NonStop Kernel includes a new version of the MRM with significantly enhanced support for XML messages and Further plug-in nodes and parsers can be downloaded. support for industry-standard “tag-delimited” message WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for HP NonStop formats such as SWIFT, EDI, and AL3 (ACORD). Kernel does not contain the rules and formatter support found in WebSphere MQ Integrator. Extensions to the Logical Model Customers, Business Partners, or other third parties may • Explicit cardinal attributes — MRM supports four basic add to these functions by developing further plug-ins for cardinal attributes (one, one or more, one or zero, zero use with this open framework concept. 202-239 -2- or more) plus the ability to extend this to cardinal • Tag separator — A reserved string that separates the attributes such as (more than two and less than six). tag from its field • Sequence and Choice — Compound types have a • Continuation character — Indicates the continuation of composition property that defines how they are field data onto a new line composed of their type members. In a sequence, the • — type members (if present) must appear in the order Escape character Used so that special reserved specified. At most, one of the type members can characters (such as delimiters) can be included as part appear. of data • — • OrderedSet and UnorderedSet — Two further Reserved characters String that specifies special composition types required for XML modeling allow reserved characters that must be preceded by the compound types to be composed of other types. This escape character if they are to be included as part of is to allow modeling of DTD elements whose content the data specs include parentheses; for example, (A,B | (C,D). • Message-begin delimiter — Special reserved character • Support for ANY, EMPTY, and MIXED element content. used to indicate start of a message body • — • XML attribute support — Allows XML attributes to be Message-end delimiter Special reserved character modeled as child elements. This also implies that a used to indicate end of a message body compound type