for zOS

Features and benefits

Business benefits

Tivoli Directory Integrator for z/OS integrates and synchronizes generic and identity data residing in a variety of system stores, such as files, message queues, Web services, directories, databases, collaborative systems, applications used for human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other corporate applications.

By serving as a flexible, synchronization layer between a company's data infrastructure and the application sources of generic and identity data, Tivoli Directory Integrator for z/OS eliminates the need for a centralized datastore. For those companies that choose to deploy an enterprise directory solution, Tivoli Directory Integrator for z/OS can help ease the process by connecting to the identity data from the various repositories throughout the organization. Ensuring that your data is consistent across the organization helps improve the integrity of the information.

With built-in connectors, an open-architecture Java development environment to extend these connectors, and tools to apply logic to data as data is processed, Tivoli Directory Integrator for z/OS can help you by:

• Synchronizing and exchanging information between files, applications or directory sources
• Managing data across a variety of repositories providing the consistent directory infrastructure needed for a wide variety of applications including security and provisioning
• Create the authoritative data spaces needed to expose only trustworthy data to advanced software applications such as Web services

Tivoli Directory Integrator for z/OS software architecture includes:

• An AssemblyLine methodology that builds a compound information object from connected information sources, performs modifications on received data, or creates new entries altogether and adds/updates/deletes the new information object to the assigned destinations.
• An Event Handling Connector framework that adds to the flexibility of Tivoli Directory Integrator for z/OS by providing the ability to wait for, and react to, specific events that have taken place in the infrastructure, such as changes in a directory, arriving e-mails, records updated in certain databases, incoming HTML pages from a Web server or browser, arriving Web services-based Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages, as well as other types of events defined by the user.
• Connectors to support numerous protocols and access mechanisms are included with the product or can be easily created or modified.
• Parsers to interpret and translate information from a byte stream into a structured information object, where each piece of information is accessible by name. You can also translate a structured information object into a byte stream. You can select from the wide range of extensible parsers such as "comma separated values", "fixed column", LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF), Extensible Markup Language (XML), SOAP and Directory Services Markup Language (DSML), or create a new parser from scratch.
• Hooks to enable the definition of certain actions to be executed under specific circumstances, or at desired points in the execution of the AssemblyLine process.

The plug-and-play functionality of these components facilitates rapid prototyping and implementation of intelligent data flows. Additionally, it is possible to extend virtually all of these integration components (for example, Function Components, Connectors and Parsers), functions and attributes through a JavaScript scripting language.

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