Introduction to the Data service connector in DataStage

You can more easily create business processes with information from a complex, heterogeneous environment if that information is published as consistent and reusable services by using the Data service connector.

Information integration is a key part of using services with the Data service connector. It provides the following key capabilities:

• Packaging information integration logic as services that insulate developers from underlying sources
• Allowing these services to be invoked as web services
• Providing foundation infrastructure for information services

The extensible architecture of the Data service connector allows it to enable a broad range of information management tasks such as data cleansing, data transformation, and data federation services.

Infrastructure services

The Data service connector is deployed on a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition-based service backbone that provides flexible, distributable, and configurable interconnections among the many parts of the architecture. These infrastructure services include:

Security services

Support role-based authentication of users, access-control services, and encryption appropriate for compliance with many privacy and security regulations.