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Status Planned for future release
Workspace webMethods Connectors and Adapters
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

webMethods Integration Server JDBC adapter needs a central configuration mechanism

The correct product isn't listed in products. The request is about webMethods integration server JDBC adapter. JDBC adapter stores credentials and connection configuration in the files system. This prevents us to use vault for storing the credentials and configuring the environment from one location. This wasn't a big deal in the past but now that we have docker containers, it gets too complicated to configure these JDBC adapter connections. 

We need: 

A database function to store these credentials, configuration parameters and share them across the cluster.

An offline or a startup update function to update these credentials from vault. 

A better documentation for JDBC adapter. 

It should still store the latest configuration in file system but it should verify and update at the startup if necessary.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    John Carter
    Mar 4, 2025

    Hi, we are actively working on this in several ways

    1. Configuration variables now allow you to create a common template that can be applied to multiple servers to override default values.

    2. You can always map these two external sources such as deployment maps (k8s) and/or vaults.

    In addition to above which has already been delivered, we are actively planning to introduce common templates that can be applied across runtimes as part of our runtime management control plane offered in our IBM webMethods IPaaS.


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  • Guest
    Sep 5, 2024

    If you have the Microservices license, you can use Configuration Variables Templates to externalize configuration from the container

    https://documentation.softwareag.com/webmethods/integration_server/pie10-15/webhelp/pie-webhelp/index.html#page/pie-webhelp%2Fto-configuration_variables_for_docker_2.html
     
    https://documentation.softwareag.com/webmethods/adapters_estandards/Adapters/Adapter_Runtime/Adapter_Runtime_10-15/10-15_Adapter_Runtime_webhelp/index.html#page/art-webhelp%2Fre-MSR_samples_5.html

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