IBM SG24-6526-00 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Front cover

  1
• Contents

  5
• Notices

  9
  • Trademarks

    10
• Preface

  11
  • The team that wrote this redbook

    11
  • Become a published author

    11
  • Comments welcome

    12
• Chapter 1. The .connect applications

  13
  • 1.1 call.connect

    14
  • 1.2 vendor.connect

    16
• Chapter 2. Architecture of the commerce.connect products

  19
  • 2.1 The need for an architecture

    20
    • 2.1.1 Key Enterprise JavaBeans and WebSphere Application Server benefits

      20
    • 2.1.2 The architecture moving forward

      21
    • 2.1.3 The development process

      22
    • 2.1.4 Implementation

      22
    • 2.1.5 The design methodology: Using Unified Modelling Language

      22
  • 2.2 Messaging: Java Message Service and IBM WebSphere MQ

    24
    • 2.2.1 call.connect

      24
    • 2.2.2 vendor.connect

      26
  • 2.3 Overview of process.connect

    27
  • 2.4 Architectural representation

    28
    • 2.4.1 Architectural goals and constraints

      28
    • 2.4.2 Non-functional architectural considerations

      28
    • 2.4.3 Functional architectural considerations

      29
  • 2.5 Reusing and extending System21 business logic

    29
    • 2.5.1 Accessing System21 RPG business logic

      29
• Chapter 3. Installing and setting up call.connect

  31
  • 3.1 Skills and prerequisites for installing, running WebSphere Application Server

    32
    • 3.1.1 Skills

      32
    • 3.1.2 Prerequisites

      32
    • 3.1.3 System21 authorization code for Order Management (OM)

      34
  • 3.2 Standard installation procedures

    34
    • 3.2.1 Installing Order Management and call.connect

      35
    • 3.2.2 WebSphere installation and configuration

      36
    • 3.2.3 Journaling

      39
    • 3.2.4 Stored procedures and SQL

      41
    • 3.2.5 Java Message Service

      43
    • 3.2.6 User profiles

      48
    • 3.2.7 System21 data set up

      51
    • 3.2.8 Java Web Start

      51
    • 3.2.9 Backup

      64
  • 3.3 call.connect housekeeping

    64
    • 3.3.1 Daily backups

      64
    • 3.3.2 Stopping WebSphere

      64
    • 3.3.3 Starting call.connect

      65
    • 3.3.4 Restoring IFS objects

      65
  • 3.4 Troubleshooting

    65
    • 3.4.1 WebSphere node name

      66
    • 3.4.2 Errors on starting the client

      66
    • 3.4.3 Errors when running the client

      66
    • 3.4.4 Cached data and .bl and .cd files

      66
    • 3.4.5 Log files and debugging

      67
  • 3.5 Manual configuration

    68
    • 3.5.1 Non-standard Order Management and call.connect installation

      68
    • 3.5.2 WebSphere manual configuration

      69
    • 3.5.3 Manual client installation

      73
  • 3.6 Alternative configurations

    74
    • 3.6.1 Setting up a test instance of WebSphere

      74
    • 3.6.2 Setting up an iSeries server for a test system

      75
    • 3.6.3 Server configuration

      76
    • 3.6.4 WebSphere administration

      77
    • 3.6.5 Manual client installation

      78
• Chapter 4. Installing and setting up vendor.connect

  85
  • 4.1 Preparing for the installation

    86
    • 4.1.1 Skills required

      86
  • 4.2 Installing vendor.connect

    86
    • 4.2.1 System21 base

      87
    • 4.2.2 Java components and configuration files

      87
    • 4.2.3 Restoring libraries

      88
    • 4.2.4 Installing and configuring WebSphere

      88
    • 4.2.5 IBM HTTP Server for iSeries

      91
    • 4.2.6 MQSeries

      100
    • 4.2.7 Work Management Trigger Handler for the iSeries

      101
    • 4.2.8 Active Architecture framework

      101
    • 4.2.9 JConnects server

      104
    • 4.2.10 Setting up new vendor.connect user IDs and supplier IDs

      104
    • 4.2.11 Database synchronization from System21 to the vendor.connect database

      115
    • 4.2.12 Testing the vendor.connect Web site

      117
    • 4.2.13 Backing up the configuration components

      117
  • 4.3 Changing the iSeries on which the application is running

    117
  • 4.4 Housekeeping

    117
    • 4.4.1 Daily

      117
    • 4.4.2 Stopping

      117
    • 4.4.3 Starting

      118
    • 4.4.4 Restoring the vendor.connect IFS objects

      118
• Chapter 5. Performance tuning

  119
  • 5.1 Hardware

    120
  • 5.2 Operating System/400 (OS/400)

    121
    • 5.2.1 SQL server job configuration

      121
    • 5.2.2 Toolbox JDBC driver

      125
    • 5.2.3 Subsystems and memory pools

      127
    • 5.2.4 Automatic performance adjustment

      133
    • 5.2.5 Manual performance adjustment

      134
  • 5.3 Stateless and stateful connections, datasources, connection pools, etc.

    134
    • 5.3.1 Stateful connections

      134
    • 5.3.2 Stateless connections

      135
    • 5.3.3 Total connections and SQL server jobs

      136
  • 5.4 Performance topics for Java virtual machine (JVM) settings

    136
    • 5.4.1 Initial Java heap size

      137
    • 5.4.2 Maximum Java heap size

      137
    • 5.4.3 Verbose garbage collection

      138
    • 5.4.4 Static compilation

      139
• Chapter 6. Tips and techniques

  149
  • 6.1 The iSeries integrated file system

    150
    • 6.1.1 Using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) with the iSeries IFS

      151
    • 6.1.2 Mapping a PC drive to the iSeries IFS

      152
    • 6.1.3 Editing an iSeries stream file using a PC editor

      154
    • 6.1.4 Stream files and CCSID

      154
    • 6.1.5 The cd command

      155
    • 6.1.6 Managing stream files with the OS/400 WRKLNK command

      155
    • 6.1.7 Other stream file commands

      156
    • 6.1.8 Stream file authority

      157
    • 6.1.9 Editing an iSeries stream file using the OS/400 EDTF command

      158
  • 6.2 The Qshell

    158
    • 6.2.1 Managing stream files with Qshell commands

      160
    • 6.2.2 The touch and setccsid commands

      161
    • 6.2.3 Viewing an iSeries stream file using the Qshell tail command

      161
    • 6.2.4 Qshell scripts

      162
  • 6.3 Checking the QEJBSBS subsystem

    164
    • 6.3.1 Instance monitor jobs

      165
    • 6.3.2 Instance administration jobs

      165
    • 6.3.3 Specifying ports

      167
    • 6.3.4 Application server jobs

      167
  • 6.4 WebSphere versions on the iSeries, your console system, and clients

    168
    • 6.4.1 Checking the WebSphere PTF level on the iSeries

      168
    • 6.4.2 Checking the WebSphere PTF level on a PC

      169
  • 6.5 Common problems with commerce.connect on iSeries

    170
    • 6.5.1 Problems connecting the console to WebSphere on the iSeries

      170
    • 6.5.2 Checking the iSeries name as required by WebSphere

      171
    • 6.5.3 Checking the iSeries database name

      172
• Related publications

  173
  • IBM Redbooks

    173
    • Other resources

      173
  • Referenced Web sites

    173
  • How to get IBM Redbooks

    173
    • IBM Redbooks collections

      173
• Index

  175
• Back cover

  184