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The Case of the Disappearing Message Print
Written by Brent Martin   
Thursday, 22 May 2008

Have you ever seen this one?  In a non-production HR environment (Tools 8.47 in this case), you change an employee's Phone # (or any other personal data) and it publishes the PERSON_BASIC_SYNC message to your non-Production Financials environment.  Everything looks great on the HR side in Message Monitor, but on the Financials side there's no evidence the message ever existed.  Nothing in message monitor at all.  Check the gateway config to make sure the node points to the correct environment and it all checks out.  Nothing in the log files either.

I hate to admit it, but I honestly couldn't figure this one out and had to get help via Customer Connection.  Here's what finally solved it: 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 May 2008 )
 
How To Resend Integration Broker Messages Print
Written by Brent Martin   
Tuesday, 20 May 2008

It is possible to resend a message that's in a DONE status.  I'm not saying that it's a good idea, just that it's possible.  Here's how to do it in PeopleTools versions prior to 8.48:

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 May 2008 )
 
Integration Broker Basics Print
Written by Brent Martin   
Thursday, 08 May 2008

I don't consider myself an Integration Broker expert.  Far from it.  I can get messages to fly from one PeopleSoft instance to another, I can write a transformation if pressed, and I can get messages that are stuck in a "New" status working again.  So I thought I'd go out on a limb here and pass along my mental model of how I visualize Integration Broker working.  If you're an expert, you might find this article simplistic and inaccurate at times and I'm hoping you'll speak up and let me know of the glaring problems.  But if you're a new to IB or trying to support somebody else's integrations you might find something in here useful.

If you think about it, any messaging system needs some basic building blocks to work.  Think about an e-mail system.  You have a Sender and a Recipient.  E-mail addresses are made up of a user (the part before the @ sign) and a domain (the part after the @ sign).  You have an e-mail server that routes the e-mail to the Recipient’s domain.  A server on the Recipient’s domain then gets it to the recipient’s inbox.  When the Recipient opens it, a Return Receipt e-mail might be generated back to the Sender as an acknowledgement.

Integration Broker follows a lot of these same rules.  But since its messages are generated and consumed by machines, things are more structured.
 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 May 2008 )