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Use the adapter for HCL Domino with a one-way send port to execute updategrams and data manipulation SQL in BizTalk.
This section provides step-by-step instructions for creating, configuring, and testing a static one-way send port using the CData BizTalk Adapter for HCL Domino. You can use static one-way send ports to execute updategrams, SQL commands, and stored procedures. Send ports are useful for operations that modify HCL Domino data but do not have any response data. Typically, this would be DELETE or UPDATE SQL commands or updategrams, and occasionally stored procedure operations.
If you want to trigger actions that will return a response, such as executing SELECT commands or retrieving the Id of a record that you have created, use a solicit-response send port.
Create and Configure the One-Way Send Port
Create a static one-way send port and configure it to use the HCL Domino adapter as its transport type.
- If you have not already done so, open your BizTalk application in the BizTalk Administration Console.
- In the node for your BizTalk application, right-click Send Ports and select New -> Static One-Way Send Port. The send port properties dialog is displayed.
- In the Name menu, enter a name for the send port.
- In the Type menu, select CData.Domino.
- In the Send Pipeline menu, select the default option, PassThruTransmit.
Configure the Adapter
Define the command that the adapter will execute in the Transport Properties dialog.
- In the send port properties, click the Configure button. The CData.HCL Domino Transport Properties dialog is displayed.
- In the CommandType property, select the command type you want.
- If you want to execute an SQL command, enter the command in the SQL Command box.
Configure the Connection to HCL Domino
Configure credentials and other properties required to connect to HCL Domino in the Connection String Options dialog.
- In the send port properties dialog, click Configure. The adapter properties dialog is displayed.
- Click the button in the Connection String property.
- Click the box in the Connection String property. The Connection String Options dialog is displayed.
- Enter connection properties. Below is a typical connection string:
Server=https://domino.corp.com;Database=names.nsf;Port=3002;SSLClientCertType=PEMKEY_FILE;SSLClientCert=full_path_of_certificate.pem;SSLServerCert=*
Prerequisites
The connector requires the Proton component to be installed. Normally, Proton is distributed as part of the AppDev pack. See the HCL documentation for instructions on acquiring and installing Proton or the AppDev pack.
Once the Proton service is installed and running, you will also need to create a user account and download its Internet certificate. This certificate can be used to set the connector certificate connection properties.
Authenticating to Domino
- Server: The name or IP address of the server running Domino with the Proton service.
- Port: The port number that the Proton service is listening on.
- Database: The name of the database file, including the .nsf extension.
- SSLClientCertType: This must match the format of the certificate file. Typically this will be either PEMKEY_FILE for .pem certificates or PFXFILE for .pfx certificates.
- SSLClientCert: The path to the certificate file.
- SSLServerCert: This can be set to (*) if you trust the server. This is usually the case, but if you want to perform SSL validation, you may provide a certificate or thumbprint instead. See the documentation for SSLServerCert for details.
Additional Server Configuration
The connector supports querying Domino views if any are defined. Before views can be queried by the connector they must be registered with the design catalog.
Please refer to the Catalog Administration section of the AppDev pack documentation for details on how to do this.
- Click Test Connection to verify the values and test connectivity.
After you connect successfully and define the command the adapter will execute, the send port is ready for use. See the following section for an example of using a one-way send port in a simple application. The application reads updategram commands contained in a file and uses a send port to execute the command.
In the example, filters are used to move the messages that contain the updategram from the receive location to the send port. See the following section for more information on filters.
Create Filters to Route BizTalk Messages Through an Application
To associate a send port with the messages you want, create a filter rule in the Filters section of the properties for that send port. Messages matching the criteria will be routed to the send port. See the following example to filter on a receive location.
Example: Execute Updategrams with a One-Way Send Port
This section shows how to use a one-way send port in a simple application. The application reads updategram commands contained in a file and executes the commands:
- A one-way receive location picks up the XML document containing the updategram.
- The receive location creates a BizTalk message containing the results of the command.
- A one-way send port filters on the URI of the receive location. The document is routed to the one-way send port.
- The send port executes the updategram command.
As in the preceding example, the followings steps show how to set up a receive location to read updategrams from a file and use a send port to execute the commands:
- Create and configure a static one-way receive location. Use the File transport type. You can follow the same procedure to create and configure a receive location for the CData BizTalk Adapter for HCL Domino.
- Create a static one-way send port.
- In the send port properties, click Filters.
- In an empty property, set the following values:
- Property
- Select BTS.InboundTransportLocation from the menu.
- Value
- Enter the URI of the newly created one-way receive location.