IBM Integration Bus Administration

IBM Integration Bus Administration

IBM Integration Bus offers a wide variety of flexible administration tools

• This reflects its underlying nature as a production strength tool
• 3rd party administration tools are also available (BMC,CA,IBM   Tivoli...) for
• Integrating into a corporate administration

IBM Integration Explorer is the visual (GUI) interface for casual administrationƒ

• Eclipse- based plug-in for WMQ Explorerƒ
• Available on Linux and Windows

Lightweight Web Administration for zero-footprint visual administration

• Supports IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome....

A full Command Line interface is also availableƒ

• Consistent interface on all platforms
• Useful for administration from scripting environments
• SDSF commands also provided for IIB on z/OS

The IIB Java API is the underlying administration API

• Available to any administrator to develop routinesƒ
• A solid base for corporate, repeatable, controlled administration

REST-based administration interface supporting HTTP clients

• Compatible with Java API

Integration Bus Content

Simple & Productive

• Graphical Mapper: stored procedures, patterns and enhanced conversion of older maps
• BPM Express/Standard (Lombardi) Integration: Process Designer synergy and integrated deployment
• Web Tools: Real-time Performance Statistics for understanding system behavior

Universal & Independent

• WESB Conversion: Import and conversion of mediation flows and “to do” list
• MQ service discovery to facilitate sharing of service definitions
• Database discovery and analysis tools for diversified access to systems of record
• DFDL improvements including length Kind “pattern” and enhancements for TLOG
• .NET Input node, Dynamics and MSMQ samples and patterns, support for Windows Server 2012
• System of awareness for service mapping application oriented integration

Industry Specific & Relevant

• Healthcare Pack update: MB8 Exploitation, DICOM Imaging, Analytics with Netezza and COGNOS

Dynamic & Intelligent

• Integrated Workload Traffic shaping policies to manage back-end system load
• Managing unresponsive integration flows for improved overall system reliability
• Business Decision Services using ODM technology for business rules integration
• Security enhancements: Improved Basic Auth, Multiple certificates, CRL checking

High Performing & Scalable

• Embedded cache extensions: External cache, expiry and SSL support
• Flexible Cloud Provisioning with IWS, SCAS and Pure, including Pure POWER support.