What's New for 2009

The following is an overview of the new features and enhancements in this release of Microsoft Host Integration Server and the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems.

Expanded Microsoft platform support

• Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V
  
  
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  
  
• SQL Server 2008 and BizTalk Server 2009
  
  

Extended deployment options and management tools

• IPv6 networking for selected features
  
  
• Backup and recovery using VSS Writer
  
  
• New common Trace Viewer
  
  

Enhanced connectivity to host applications

• Generation of WCF Services based on Transaction Integrator objects
  
  
• Improved performance of Transaction Integrator and BizTalk adapter runtimes
  
  
• Dynamic Remote Environments for TI and BizTalk adapter
  
  
• New migration and deployment tools
  
  
• Design tool improvements, including COBOL/400 import/export
  
  
• Support for CICS v3.2 and IMS Connect v9
  
  

New WCF channel for WebSphere MQ

• With synchronous message correlation
  
  
• Built on system service model in .NET Framework 3.5
  
  
• Visual Studio project type to support optional data conversion
  
  
• Supports WebSphere MQ v7
  
  

Expanded connectivity to DB2 

• Entity Designer and Entity Provider for DB2
  
  
• Improved performance when fetching data from DB2
  
  
• Support for DB2 for Linux and HP-UX platforms
  
  
• Compatibility with DB2 for z/OS v9 and DB2 UDB V9.5
  
  

Improved connectivity to host files

• Off-line data reader for host files ADO.NET provider and BizTalk adapter
  
  
• Visual Studio design tools for host files