Resource adapters overview

IBM Transformation Extender resource adapters are used to retrieve and route data. They provide access to databases, files, messaging systems, enterprise applications and other data sources and targets. You can use adapters with the Command Server, Launcher, Software Development Kit, or with a map in a map rule.

Each adapter includes a set of adapter commands that can be used to customize its operation. Use the adapter commands to specify different queues and queue managers, specific messages by message ID, specific sets of messages with the same message ID, message descriptors in your data, and more.

Resource adapters answer the questions Where should the data come from? and Where should the data go?

Source and target data may be in a file, from a specific application, in a database, from a message queue, from an archive file, or from other sources. The client components of the Design Server,Integration Flow Designer, map designer, schema designer, and Database Interface Designer are integral to using the resource adapters.

Each input of data and each output of data requires content definition settings. These card settings are specific to input and output cards, although some settings are common to both cards.