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Status Not under consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2012

flows with a sequence of web services are not intuitive to use

WMB flows with a sequence of web services are not intuitive to use. this is because the web service response from the first call is lost after the second web service call is made. This means that the WMB toolkit user needs to store aware information that might be needed in the local environment.

Idea priority High
RFE ID 27983
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM App Connect Enterprise (formerly IBM Integration Bus)
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
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    Feb 3, 2022

    Unfortunately there has not been further interest noted since our last update in October 2020. Whilst the web services angle to the framing of this use case does not help us prioritise right now, we note that the heart of this issue is really to do with the Toolkit programming model's approach whereby each node in the flow is responsible for the structure of the message assembly which is emitted to the next node in the flow. This gives tremendous power, but can also make things tricky for new users to remember it is their responsibility to decide which parts of the tree should be preserved as you move from one node to the next. This important design point was differently addressed in the Designer programming model, where the output context trees from each node in the flow are treated as immuteable. As the Toolkit and Designer programming models come closer together in future, we may end up supporting an option of having immuteable trees (or an area of the tree which is immuteable) in Toolkit flows, but this won't be sponsored through a web service specific RFE, so on this occasion we will not be carrying this idea forward.

  • Guest
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    Oct 21, 2020

    RFE Review. This area remains of interest to us, and despite not being an immediate business priority, it is an idea we will continue to monitor for popularity. Status updated to Uncommitted Candidate.

  • Guest
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    Oct 7, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Connectivity and Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

  • Guest
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    Nov 4, 2013

    Good requirement thanks for raising. Service composition style use cases are very important for IIB, and we're looking at a number of improvements that will simplify how the product allows you visualise and manage the data (and other service information) as it flows from endpoint to endpoint. Cheers.