Pausing message processing of connection points

To temporarily stop message processing to and from a specific connection point, you can use the Pause option. For example, during an application's maintenance window, its in-box and outbox tables may be unavailable. Or an event from the source application may go undetected in ION if a business process model meant for catching the event is deactivated to perform critical changes. On such occasions you can temporarily pause a connection point. No messages are processed for that connection point and you can perform your maintenance without side effects. You can resume the message processing after your maintenance is finished and the messages for that connection point flow again.

This feature is applicable only for:

  • Infor Application
  • Infor Application ION Messaging Service (IMS)
  • Infor LN
  • File
  • Database
  • Message Queue
  • API
  • Stream
  • Network

This feature has these characteristics:

  • You can pause both sending and receiving of messages per connection point. These actions are independent of each other. A connection point can be paused to send new messages from its outbox although it may continue to receive messages in the in-box, or vice versa.
  • A connection point remains active even if it is paused for sending or receiving. When the connection point is paused, its global status indicator, status of connectivity to the server, and its message statistics counter in the Active Connection Points page remain available.
  • If sending or receiving messages of a connection point is paused, then the connection point restarts only processing messages if you explicitly resume it. Even if a connection point is paused and then deactivated, it remains paused when it is reactivated.
  • Along with the number of connection points in Active or Error state, the Home Page indicates the number of connection points in paused state. This page only indicates whether a connection point is paused for sending or receiving. From this page, you can drill down to the Active Connection Points page where you can view more details.