App Connect


Here is some detail collected by Geet on IIB migration.

I have IBM Integration Bus v9 – when should I migrate to IBM App Connect Enterprise v11?

In September 2017, IBM announced the End of Service for IBM Integration Bus v9 would occur in September 2018.
  • If you are considering a change to your IT architecture to embrace 12-Factor applications and cloud-native principles, then you should consider the new capabilities of IBM App Connect Enterprise v11. In this circumstance you can take advantage of your past investments on the IIB platform by re-using your message flows and deploying then to a new IBM App Connect Enterprise v11 architecture built upon independent integration server processes. In many cases like this, you might choose to coordinate your integration servers using a wider configuration framework / toolset outside of IBM App Connect Enterprise, such as the open source Kubernetes framework for example.
  • If you prefer to continue using an architecture which includes integration nodes for controlling your integration servers, then you should either migrate to the latest fix pack release of IBM Integration Bus v10 (at the time of writing, IIBv10.0.0.11) or wait for the integration node feature to arrive in IBM App Connect Enterprise v11, which is likely to be in its next fix pack release.


Which features of IBM Integration Bus v10 were not included in the initial release of IBM App Connect Enterprise v11?

There are a few lesser used features that were delivered with earlier versions of IBM Integration Bus, but which IBM did not include as part of the initial release of IBM App Connect Enterprise v11:
·         The SCA message flow nodes: SCAInput, SCAReply, SCARequest, SCAAsyncRequest and SCAAsyncResponse
·         The WSRR message flow nodes: RegistryLookup and EndpointLookup
·         There will be no direct equivalent of the IBM Decision Server Rules Edition for Integration Bus, so the DecisionService message flow node and its associated configurable service will not be present in IBM App Connect Enterprise v11
·         The WebSphere Application Server console plugin. WebSphere Message Broker v8, IBM Integration Bus v9 and v10 provided this plugin for WebSphere Application Server to enable WAS administrators to control IIB integration nodes.
·         There will be a java IBM Integration API provided with App Connect Enterprise v11. However, some parts of this API from IIBv10 (based upon the technology from earlier WebSphere Message Broker versions known as the Configuration Manager Proxy API or CMP) will be removed.
·         There will be a new administrative REST API (“REST APIv2”) which replaces the IBM Integration Bus REST APIv1
·         If you are concerned about any of the above items, or about any aspect of migration, then please do not hesitate to get in direct contact with us by emailing AskAppIn@uk.ibm.com and we will be happy to discuss the right way to move you forward.








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