IBM Integration Bus Training: V9 Developer Workshop Training

1. Introduction to the Integration Bus Toolkit

• Explain need for business integration and transformation
• List and explain the functions of the primary components of IIB V9

2. Design and Setup Considerations

• Briefly review roles and responsibilities IIB components
• Discuss setting up IIB development environment

EXERCISE 1 - Setting up the development domain

3. Introduction to the Integration Bus Toolkit

• Demonstrate the Integration Bus Toolkit
• Explain the components of Toolkit
• Demonstrate steps to create/test message flow using the Toolkit
• Review the IBM primitives
• Discuss components of IIB messages

EXERCISE 1 continued - Building and testing a message flow application

4. Problem Determination

• Explain message flow behaviors
• Describe the different debugging techniques

EXERCISE 2 - Working with problem determination tools (Trace nodes, User Trace, Integrated Test Client, Debugger, Error Logs, The ExceptionList tree)

5. Working with Integration Bus Nodes

• List IIB message parts and parsing
• Discuss coding basic ESQL statements
• Demonstrate using supplied nodes and describe use of most common ones
• Explore Subflows and their uses
• Explain working with databases

EXERCISE 3 - Manipulating a message using ESQL

EXERCISE 4 - Working with databases and subflows

EXERCISE 4A – Implementing deployable subflows and ESQL

EXERCISE 5 - Using the DatabaseRetrieve node

EXERCISE 5A - Updating a database using ESQL

• Explain reference variables to process message trees
• Discuss shared variables
• Describe user-defined variables
• Consider version control implementation
• Review advantages of using Environment tree
• Opaque parsing in XML messages

EXERCISE 6 – Implementing reference variables in ESQL

EXERCISE 6A – Caching a database table to improve performance

EXERCISE 6B – Using the Environment tree

EXERCISE 6C – Using Opaque Parsing for XML messages

6 Working with Integration Bus Nodes

• Describe request/reply using Aggregation nodes
• Consider obtaining information from different sources – Collector Nodes
• Explain use of MQGET node to process replies

EXERCISE 7 - Sending requests and obtaining replies in a single message flow

EXERCIES 7A - Using the Collector node to process messages from different sources

7. Message Modeling and Mapping

• Explain storing message layouts in the Toolkit
• Describe implementation of message models
• Explore using graphical data maps
• Demonstrate import/use of C, XML and Cobol structures in the Toolkit

EXERCISE 8 - Creating and working with a message model using DFDL

EXERCISE 8A – Importing to create a message model

EXERCISE 8B – Working with XML models

8. Using Java in the Integration Bus

• Consider the JavaCompute node
• Discuss using XPATH to work with message structures
• Explain JMS nodes and implementation

EXERCISE 9 - Implementing JavaCompute in a message flow

EXERCISE 9A - Converting an MQ message to JMS

9. Routing data through message flows

• Discuss Route, RouteToLabel, Label and DatabaseRoute nodes

EXERCISE 10 - Working with routing techniques.

10. Additional input and output options

• Describe Timer nodes
• Explain File nodes
• Discuss Email nodes

EXERCISE 11 – Implementing a time based flow

EXERCISE 11A – Working with files in a message flow

OPTIONAL DAY 5 - list of optional topics for Day 5 (number of topics selected dependent on exercises as topics with exercises require additional time. Generally 3-5 topics for the day).

11.  Using SOAP and HTTP nodes (OPTIONAL)

• Describe Web Service support for Integration Bus
• Discuss using the HTTP Nodes
• Explain using SOAP nodes

EXERCISE 12 – Implementing a SOAP message flow

EXERCISE 12A – Creating a Integration Service from a schema

12.  Working with Patterns (OPTIONAL)

• Using supplied patterns
• Creating patterns for reuse
• Sharing patterns

EXERCISE 13 – Implementing a supplied pattern

EXERCISE 13A – Creating a pattern

13. Publish/Subscribe updates (OPTIONAL)

• Explore Pub/Sub uses
• List steps to implement a IIB V9 pub/sub flow
• Explain using filters for publish/subscribe

EXERCISE 14 – Implementing content filtering

14. Using the global cache and eXtremeScale (OPTIONAL)

• Using the built-in global cache
• Connecting to an external eXtremeScale grid

EXERCISE 15 - Using the built-in globalcache/eXtreme scale functions

15. Working with .NET (OPTIONAL)

• Using the .NETCompute node
• Calling .NET methods via ESQL

EXERCISE 16 – Building a simple Web service using a .NETCompute node

16.  Integration Registry (OPTIONAL)

• Storing MQ Service definitions and policies
• Managing workload management policies

EXERCISE 17 – Using an MQ Service definition to configure an MQ node

17. CICS and Integration Bus (OPTIONAL)

• CICS and Integration Bus interaction
• Connecting to CICS
• Setting up to use CICSRequest node
• Working with CICSRequest node

18. IMS and Integration Bus (OPTIONAL)

• IMS and Integration Bus interaction
• Connecting to IMS
• Setting up to use IMSRequest node
• Working with IMSRequest node