Integration Flow Designer overview

The Integration Flow Designer is a component of the Design Studio that provides a graphical facility to combine collections of maps and run them as a single unit.

The Integration Flow Designer has an easy-to-use graphical interface. You can create system diagrams, what-if scenarios, generate process control information, and see how the systems will behave at execution time. Additionally, the automation of the Integration Flow Designer helps reduce the number of errors that often result from manual operations.

The term for a collection of maps is system. Using the Integration Flow Designer, you create a system file by combining map components and then saving them as a single file known as a system definition file (.msd).

The Integration Flow Designer provides both local and client functionality. Use the Command Server or Launcher to execute a system's process control information on both Windows and UNIX operating systems.