This tutorial was developed to provide a practice scenario
to help you understand how to develop, create, and edit changes to InfoSphere® MDM
Server using
Extension tooling and Metadata tooling.
Before installing and using
InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench,
ensure that you have installed
IBM® InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and
related prerequisite software installed. See the
InfoSphere MDM
Server ReadMe for
full prerequisite hardware and software requirements information.
When
installing Rational® Software
Architect for WebSphere® or Rational Application Developer
for WebSphere, ensure
that you install the following features:
- Java™ EE and Web services
development tools
- Data tools
- Tools for WebSphere Application
Server version 8.0
- WebSphere Application
Server version 8.0 compile-time dependencies.
Note: Although this document refers to IBM Rational Software
Architect, the information is also applicable to IBM Rational Application
Developer. If you are using Rational Application
Developer, ensure you have installed the optional Extensibility
-> Jet Transformation Authoring and Runtime feature.
The InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench
version 10.1 supports InfoSphere MDM
Server versions
9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 10.0 and 10.1.
The
InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench contains
tools for generating:
- Data additions, to add a new data entity.
- Data extensions, to extend an existing data entity with additional
attributes.
- Behavior extensions, to add new functionality to transactions
or the underlying actions within the transaction.
- Query extensions, to modify how the data is accessed.
- Entity subtypes, to provide an inheritance model for data additions.
- InfoSphere MDM
Server metadata
specs, which are used to define extensions to first class entities
within the InfoSphere MDM
Server data
model.
- Product type hierarchy models, which can
be used to create a product type hierarchy to the InfoSphere MDM
Server.
Basic instructions are included to illustrate the use
of each of the fundamental
Workbench elements:
- Extensions tooling: used to create hard types,
or the data additions, extensions, behavior (service) extensions,
and query extensions, described above, that physically change the
database structure and the running code of the InfoSphere MDM
Server application.
- Metadata tooling: used to create soft types,
or the metadata specs and Product type hierarchies, described above,
that can be exported to a server using services without changing the
underlying data model or the server code.
Learning objectives
In this tutorial,
you will become more familiar with the
InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench by
learning:
- How to create physical customizations using extension tooling
by:
- Creating a new hub module project and new entity for it
- Creating addition definitions and attributes for the new entity
- Creating data extensions and definitions
- Creating behavior extensions and definitions
- Generating the physical extension implementation
- Viewing the InfoSphere MDM
Server artifacts
generated by the Workbench
- Editing Workbench generated
Code Table SQL
- Deploying the DDL to the database and republishing the InfoSphere MDM
Server application
- How to create metadata customizations using metadata tooling
by:
- Creating a metadata project
- Creating a metadata spec
- Creating a Product type hierarchy
- Deploying metadata to InfoSphere MDM
Server
Time Required
The time
required to finish both of the sections of this tutorial is about
one hour and fifteen minutes.
Prerequisites
In order
to proceed with this tutorial, you must have installed InfoSphere MDM
Server,
the InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench,
and have set up the necessary environment according to your needs.
For
detailed information on system and setup prerequisites for using the InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench,
see the Understanding the InfoSphere MDM
Server Workbench and Setting
up your development environment topics of the Workbench topics.
The
interface of the Rational Software Application is made up of Perspectives
and Views. Perspectives allow the environment to be used for many
different tasks. Views show different pieces of Data on the Screen.
In this tutorial, use the Java EE Development Perspective.
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management, Version 10.1