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Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this RFE has been held in Uncommitted Candidate / Future Consideration status. The IIB / ACE product has evolved significantly since the time this suggestion was initially created. The Message Broker Explorer component no longer exists as part of the product and in its place we now have a web browser based ui dashboard which is capable of connecting to multiple integration nodes and independent integration servers. This dashboard has the ability to encrypt connection information and also an export capability when wanting to share connections between different users. On the off chance that you feel further specific enhancements are still required in this area please feel free to raise a request against the latest release of the product, focussing on this new UI.
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
Thank you for raising this requirement. We acknowledge that behaviour could be improved in this area. The existing behaviour highlighted by the RFE is an MQ Explorer feature "Export MQ Explorer Settings", where as the Broker connection format is known by the IIB IBX plugins (as opposed to a feature of the MQ Explorer itself). The independence of the two products (MQ and IIB) and the fact that MQ Explorer is used by many clients who do not have IIB, is the reason for the different file format and apparent "duplication" of the feature, yet implemented in slightly different ways. Despite this justification of history, the essence of the requirement is obvious - for users with large numbers of brokers, an extension of the *.broker format to support the storage of multiple sets of connection details would undoubtedly be a good thing for the product. It is likely that this would need to be implemented in a new file type - the existing *.broker format is relevant for a single broker/node and is used and interpreted by some of the Broker command console commands, so we'd likely maintain this format in its current form for backwards compatability. So, once again, thank you very much for taking the time to raise the requirement which would provide enhanced usability. Status of this RFE is updated to Uncommitted candidate.