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Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this RFE has been held in Uncommitted Candidate / Future Consideration status. Business prioritization has not yet led us to implement this requirement, and unfortunately there has also only been a single vote for this idea despite it being open since 2012. Given this, unfortunately on this occasion we will not be pursuing this suggestion further. For those who are interested in this use case, you could use Compute node ESQL/JCN/Map in a node prior to the TCPClientOutput to do the "round-robinning" and set up the LocalEnvironment tree which can be used to dynamically control the host and port used by the TCPClientOutput.
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 the update. Is there a way to know when this investigation is complete and the enhancement might be included?
Thanks for raising this requirement. The TCP/IP nodes do allow you to specify multiple IP addresses that the broker will use (see the "AlternativeAddresses" TCPIPClient configurable service property), but the connection algorithm is based solely on availability: if the first address is not available then the second is used, and so on. So I think a neat extension to this support would be to specify an alternative connection algorithm on the configurable service, such as round robin like you suggest. We'll investigate adding this in a follow-on release or fixpack.