WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.1 Fundamentals

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This course is the foundation course for the WebSphere Transformation Extender curriculum, and is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.1. The course focuses on the WebSphere Transformation Extender Type Designer, Map Designer, and Database Interface Designer components, and describes how they are used to define and transform flat file and database data.

Audience

This course is designed for programmers and analysts who need to implement data integration and transformation solutions using WebSphere Transformation Extender.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students must have a basic understanding of data formats, databases, and processing logic.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, students should be able to:

- Describe how to create data structures, data properties, and data components

• Explain how to validate type trees
• Transform flat file and database using the Map Designer
• Describe how to use Type Designer, Database Interface Designer, Functional Map Wizard, Map, and the Resource Registry to improve map and type tree design and throughput
• Implement error handling
• Optimize map performance

Course Outline

Type Designer fundamentals

- Defining data structure and content

• Validating data definitions
• Building additional validation into tree types
• Map Designer f undamentals
• More about mapping
• Functional maps and the Functional Map Wizard
• More efficient type definitions
• Error handling
• Resource Registry
• Map optimization
• Running maps in production
• Database Interface Designer fundamentals
• Generating type trees for database tables and queries
• Using database query results as a data source
• Using database functions
• Using a database table as data target
• Database connection management
• Database adapter commands
• Putting it all together

WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.1 Fundamentals / SW110GB (SW110GBGB)