Design environment

With the TX design environment, you can develop event-driven application-to-application (A2A) integration, business-to-business (B2B) integration, and consumer-to-business (C2B) application integration. The design environment models and tests integration solutions.

You use the design environment to create IBM Sterling Transformation Extender data integration solutions. The design environment provides a graphical interface for managing the integration of applications and business processes.

The Design Server is the client interface into an extensive array of functionality that is available to create application integration solutions. Application integration solutions created with the Design Server run on transformation servers specific to the IBM Sterling Transformation Extender product being used. The separation of design and execution provides exceptional flexibility for implementing enterprise-wide integration solutions. A single Design Server can deploy integration solutions to multiple servers. Multiple instances of Design Server can create integration solutions for a single production environment.

With the Design Server, you can:

• Define the structure of source data and target data with the schema designer
• Import database object metadata and identify characteristics of those objects to meet mapping and execution requirements with the Database Interface Designer
• Define transformation rules with the map designer
• Design systems of maps to model data integration processes with the Integration Flow Designer
• Develop and test maps and systems with the map designer and the Integration Flow Designer
• Deploy maps and systems to the execution environment with the Integration Flow Designer