What is meant by Information Services Director

nareshketepalli · Post by **nareshketepalli** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:49 pm

What is meant by Information Services Director and what is the use of this ?

Thanks in advance..

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:12 pm

Information Services Director is one of the components of IBM InfoSphere Inforamtion Server (just like DataStage and Information Analyzer are components).

The function of Information Services Director is to provide the environment in which jobs can be exposed as services that can be invoked by web clients. It allows such "always on" or "on demand" jobs to be configured and managed.

nareshketepalli · Post by **nareshketepalli** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:27 pm

Thanks,
How ISD is usefull in realtime ?

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:03 am

The documentation describes this nicely, but in brief, it allows you to have a Job whose source and target are a real-time application....perhaps a user who is entering a name, and needs to have that name parsed and standardized and its address checked for validity. It's a one row, request/response process. ISD makes that possible by establishing an "always on" service as Ray noted, that supports industry standard bindings for "talking" to it (SOAP, JMS, HTTP, etc.) from another application (Java, .NET, JavaScript, etc.).

Ernie