iWay Service Manager 6.1 Product Update Scott Hathaway iWay Software Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 1

Overview Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 2 An introduction to the new features of iSM 6.1 and releases. For more information about the features covered, please me at

6.1 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 3 GA 6/3/2011 – Available via Tech Support site. New Features Covered: SNMP Parallel Control Agent iWay Integration Applications (iIA) Security XQuery Agent LEA Full list available on “What’s New” page or

SNMP Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 4 Simple Network Management Protocol Monitor: Server start and end Listener start and end Listener execution statistics Special registers Support for V1, V2, & V3

Parallel Control Agent Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 5 Execute dynamically created process flows in parallel. Types: XML Split Count Can be combined with RVI for distributed MapReduce style processing.

iWay Integration Applications (iIA) Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 6 Build, package, and deploy applications into their own managed servers from iIT. The registry is no longer required. Deploy against templates containing configuration settings. Script your deployments.

Security Updates Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 7 Role Based Security Assign specific roles to realm authenticated users to control access to functionality in a process flow. Validation can be done using IFL.

XQuery Agent Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 8 A query and functional programming language for XML documents. “XQuery is to XML what SQL is to database tables.” – W3C The agent is used to apply the XQuery against the incoming document and return the result. Example: for $x in /FEDREG/CNTNTS/AGCY where $x/EAR=‘Agricultural’ order by $x ascending return $x

iIT Updates Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 9 First official production release! Updates since last CFR: iWay Integration Application (IIAs) 32/64bit Windows and Linux Note: Linux is awaiting QA certification and will be available for download soon. Designer test result view Transformer search Designer search

Transformer Updates Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 10 Transformer will be functionally stabilized and replaced in the future with the iIT version. Pipelining Added support for more types. Variable Support To enhance performance and usability. Formatters Option for plugging proprietary data format conversions within an XML transformation. Mapping Libraries Provide additional organization and portability of data mappings and other components. Design Time Validation Runs automatically upon opening a transform project.

Log Event Adapters Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 11 Capture changes to XML and apply them to a target database. Supported Configurations: SourceTarget SQL Server 2000/2005/2008Oracle 10g/11g SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Oracle 10g/11g SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Informix 11.50Oracle 10g/11g

6.1.1 Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 12 GA Date End of July New Features/Improvements Covered: Specification compliant iwxpath Copy/Rename Providers Dynamic Adapter Targets Debugging aid commands Scheduler Simplified DSIG Kerberos for nHTTP Scripting support XML Archive

Improvements Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 13 _iwxpath() XPath 1.0 full specification support. Up to 4 times faster than standard XPath. Copy/Rename Providers Make a copy of or rename any current provider in the console. Dynamic Adapter Targets Adapter targets that are used in a process flow can now have their properties set using IFL.

Improvements (Cont.) Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 14 Debugging Aid Commands _iflcache – Show cached IFL commands. _xalog – Get statistics on log drivers. _correl – Get statistics on correlation drivers.

Scheduler Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 15 The Scheduler allows the user to schedule Service Manager tasks to run at specific time(s) during the hour, day or month. Calendar Provider Lets you set Holidays, Time Zones or to skip Weekends or not. Schedule Provider Run any iSM command at a specific day and time down to the minute using a specific Calendar Provider.

Security Updates Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 16 Simplified DSIG New components for creating Digital Signatures for XML documents. Kerberos Support JAAS authentication realm is available for authentication.

Scripting Support Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 17 Execute scripts from inside flows using IFL or from the console. Support Javascript and Perl. IFL Command: _script(script,function,param,param,…) Console: script location –entry function param param … Access to iSM objects in scripts: Current document, Special Registers, and XDManager

iIT Updates Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 18 Channel Builder Visual assembly of channels inside iIT. Dictionary Builder available in iIT. Library Explorer Add components to a library for reuse, parts of a flow, ifl statements, part of a channel. Web service support Export web service into iIT. DQC update site Get updates for or install DQC via an update site.

iWay XML Archive Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 19 Low cost, efficient, scalable storage, query, and retrieval system for XML documents. Query: Find documents via HTTP query API. Apply XQueries to retrieved documents. Configurable: Source documents from any iWay adapter or listener. Store documents inside mongoDB using GridFS or outside using the file system.

Questions? Copyright 2009, Information Builders. Slide 20