The package in which to create the connection. You must create the package using Designer before you can specify it using this parameter. For general information about creating packages, see the webMethods Service Development Help for your release.

The folder in which to create the connection.

The name you want to give the connection. Connection names cannot have spaces or use special characters reserved by Integration Server and Designer. For information about the use of special characters in package, folder, and element names, see the webMethods Service Development Help for your release.

The type of the ISO_8583 connection that you want to configure. Select one of the following connection types:

Available channels to select and configure:

The name of the ISO_8583 server that hosts the ISO_8583 backend system.

The port number that the connection uses to connect to the ISO_8583 server.

The time in milliseconds for the client to wait before cancelling a connection attempt to the target server. If you do not specify a value in this field, the client uses the default value: 30000 (msec).

The time in milliseconds the client waits for a response after it has sent the ISO_8583 message, before closing the communication channel. If no response is received within the specified timeout, Module for ISO_8583 logs a warning in the Integration Server logs. The default is -1

The number of connections to create when the connection is enabled. The module keeps open the number of connections you configure here regardless of whether these connections become idle. The default is 1

The maximum number of connections that can exist at one time in the connection pool. The default is 10

The number of connections by which the pool is incremented if connections are needed, up to the maximum pool size. The default is 1

The number of milliseconds that the Integration Server waits to obtain a connection with the database before it times out and returns an error. For example, you have a pool with Maximum Pool Size of 20. If you receive 30 simultaneous requests for a connection, 10 requests will be waiting for a connection from the pool. If you set the Block Timeout to 5000, the 10 requests will wait for a connection for 5 seconds before they time out and return an error. If the services using the connections require 10 seconds to complete and return connections to the pool, the pending requests will fail and return an error message stating that no connections are available.

If you set the Block Timeout value too high, you may encounter problems during error conditions. If a request contains errors that delay the response, other requests will not be sent. This setting should be tuned in conjunction with the Maximum Pool Size to accommodate such bursts in processing.

The default is 1000

The number of milliseconds that an inactive connection can remain in the pool before it is closed and removed from the pool.

The connection pool removes inactive connections until the number of connections in the pool is equal to the Minimum Pool Size. The inactivity timer for a connection is reset when the connection is used by the adapter. If you set the Expire Timeout value too high, you may have a number of unused inactive connections in the pool. This consumes local memory and a connection on your backend resource. This could have an adverse effect if your resource has a limited number of connections.

If you set the Expire Timeout value too low, performance could degrade because of the increased activity of creating and closing connections. This setting should be tuned in conjunction with the Minimum Pool Size to avoid excessive opening/closing of connections during normal processing.

The default is 1000

The number of times that the system should attempt to initialize the connection pool at startup if the initial attempt fails. The default is 0

The number of seconds that the system should wait between attempts to initialize the connection pool. The default is 10