e-Biz Impact version 5.4.5 introduced significant functional changes.
If you are upgrading to e-Biz Impact version 5.5 from a version prior
to 5.4.5, pay close attention to this chapter.
To provide a clean and intuitive migration from earlier versions of e-Biz Impact, the msgsrv and v2sfm applications have been maintained in e-Biz Impact 5.5. Although the internal dynamics of these applications have changed, the external functionality remains the same. The B/SM-based msgsrv has been replaced with an ODL server application, ODLSRV, and you can migrate the ODL code with few changes. The B/SM-based v2sfm is replaced by a Store and Forward Manager (SFM) application. Both of these applications run under the new e-Biz Impact bus, which runs within one of two new executables—a controller application launched by a new e-Biz Impact manager (cluster) application, or an application launched directly from the command line.
A new custom code framework allows you to migrate custom C\C++ AIMs to the new bus plug-in architecture; however, in some instances, it may not be feasible to convert a custom AIM to run under the bus. In that case, you can continue to run the AIMs under a B/SM version of e-Biz Impact or as a single plug-in application in a dedicated bus.
Monitoring is handled by the Global Console, a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, that displays a tree of all e-Biz Impact applications. Each tree node provides different views to give a comprehensive look at the entire e-Biz Impact environment. As states change, you are notified by obvious color and graphical changes that quickly give focus to a problem area. There is a view of the SFM node that duplicates the functionality of the previously used 4.x Sfmcon.
e-Biz Impact 5.5 configuration uses the Configurator MMC snap-in. This configuration GUI takes the place of the version 4.x configuration files. All the information that was in the linktab, bsmtab, sfm.cfg, and the cl7archive is now configured in this simple point and click tool. All configuration files for e-Biz Impact 5.5 are generated by the Configurator snap-in.
Some limitations of the B/SM version of e-Biz Impact are addressed in version 5.5:
Multiple instances and multiple versions of e-Biz Impact 5.5 can run simultaneously on the same server. A version 5.4.5 instance (cluster) is defined as one e-Biz Impact manager with one or more controllers.
An instance can also be a single execution of the application.
You can continue to run a single instance per server of a B/SM-based e-Biz Impact.
The need to run as “root” on UNIX has been eliminated.
The 64K Distributed Function Call (DFC) limit has been eliminated.
