Hi,
I vaguely remember seeing a whitepaper or maybe one of the walkthroughs for ILM where, within a rules extension, they were using a table in SQL server as a lookup table, e.g., for mapping attributes or something like that.
Does anyone here recall something like that?
The reason for I'm looking for that is that some of our "legacy" extensions are doing something like, where they map a pair of attributes (like location name and state) into postal codes.
The way that the current code does this is to instantiate a new connection to the SQL server each time the extension is invoked, but we've been asked if it'd be possible to not do that, but to do something like create the connection at the beginning of the profile run, and then just use the same connection for the lookups/queries, and I was hoping that walkthrough (or whatever it was) might have some suggestions about how to do that in ILM.
With ILM, is there some way to do something like that, like maybe at start of the profile run (or maybe even at ILM startup) to open a connection to an SQL server and then, within the rules extensions, re-use that already instantiated connection?
Thanks,
Jim