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Idea Review. Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement request and also for the wider discussion of the other issues you have faced, which has occurred on the case you raised (TS010923894). For the benefit of clarity for other readers, we will restrict our commentary here to the specific enhancement asked for in the initial description of this idea (as opposed to the other aspects raised through TS010923894). This enhancement specifically asks for an alteration to the behaviour of the mqsibar command to inspect the contents of the provided BAR, and for each of the appzip files in the BAR, look in the existing run directory and delete the corresponding application directories first, before unzipping the new BAR file content. This has the impact of the command essentially "clearing" aspects of the existing deployed app as opposed to current behaviour which is essentially to "add" the contents of .appzip to what was previously deployed. This has been dealt with through our service channel and a fix has been provided.
Description of the fix: "This fix is provided to address the issues that can arise when using mqsibar command to unpack a BAR directly into an Integration Server work directory that already contains a prior copy of the Application(s) or Libraries contained in the BAR. Before the fix the mqsibar command did not clear any existing contents of Application(s) or Libraries in the destination work directory it was unpacking from the BAR. This could result in old files being left that might cause issues such as duplicate ESQL, XML etc. With the fix, the mqsibar command now clears any existing Application or Library contents from the destination work directory as it unpacks the BAR so that the work directory contains only the new contents of the BAR file."
This fix has been provided through the service channel, and it will also be included in the next release of App Connect Enterprise (12.0.8.0). [For the benefit of IBM internal readers, useful background is provided on defect 92998]