IBM InfoSphere Information Services Director

IBM® InfoSphere® Information Services Director provides a unified and consistent way to publish and manage shared information services. Using InfoSphere Information Services Director, information specialists can design and deploy reusable information integration tasks including data cleansing, data transformation, and data federation services.

Introduction
You can more easily create business processes with information from a complex, heterogeneous environment if that information is published as consistent and reusable services.

Supported information service providers
Information service providers are the sources of operations for your services. Using InfoSphere Information Services Director, you can create services from the following information service providers: IBM InfoSphere DataStage®; IBM InfoSphere QualityStage®; IBM Db2® Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows; IBM InfoSphere Federation Server; IBM InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS®; and Oracle Database Server.

Designing IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage jobs as services
Exposing InfoSphere
DataStage jobs and InfoSphere QualityStage jobs as services implies a set of constraints and guidelines. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform supports three job topologies for different load and work style requirements: batch jobs, batch jobs with a service output stage, and jobs with service input and output stages.

Connecting to information service providers
After you create an information service provider, you must connect to it before you can use it to develop applications, services, and operations.

Developing applications, services, and operations
The InfoSphere Information Services Director development model is based on a hierarchy of objects that define the flow of development.

Deploying applications
After the information service has been designed and saved, it must be deployed.

Service consumers
Service consumers are able to access information services by using multiple technologies for program interoperability.

Command line interface
You can use the command line interface to administer and deploy InfoSphere Information Services Director project resources such as applications and services.

Reference: InfoSphere Information Services Director help
You can access help while you perform tasks with the InfoSphere Information Services Director features in the InfoSphere Information Server console. When you press the F1 key or click the Help icon in the console, the topic that is relevant to your location opens in the InfoSphere Information Server information center.