Overview of integration services
An integration service is a service that you use to integrate with an external system, such as InfoSphere® MDM. MDM Application Toolkit contains a set of integration services that are used to handle MDM services and service tokens.
An integration service is the only type of service that can contain a Java or Web Service integration. You can call an integration service from any other type of service and an integration service can call other nested services.
MDM Application Toolkit includes a set of integration services. Some of these integration services are for general purposes. Other integration services support a specific coach view or process application.
The following sections describe the type and purpose of the built-in integration services.
MDM entity services
MDM Application Toolkit contains a set of integration services that are used handle MDM entity services and service tokens.
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| Delete MDM Entity Service | Deletes and releases resources that are allocated for a MDM entity service. |
| Get All MDM Entity Services | Returns a list of the MDM entity services. |
| MDM Entity Service Exists | Determines if the MDM entity service exists on the IBM BPM. Returns a Boolean value. |
| Obtain MDM Entity Service | Secures a MDM entity service and returns a service token representing that MDM entity service. |
| Get MDM Entity | The Get MDM Entity integration service retrieves entity data from the operational server. |
CRUD services
MDM Application Toolkit contains a set of integration services that handle Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) types of activities against business objects. For example, a Virtual MDM Person business object or a Physical MDM TCRMPersonBObj business object.
This group of integration services also includes a Search service.
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| MDM Create | Interacts with the operational server to create an object. |
| MDM Delete | Interacts with the operational server to delete an object. |
| MDM Get | Interacts with the operational server to retrieve an object. |
| MDM Search | Interacts with the operational server to search for objects. |
| MDM Update | Interacts with the operational server to update an object. |
Services for the MDM Hierarchy coach view
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| Save MDM Hierarchy Changes | Updates the Physical MDM operational server with changes that a user makes to the hierarchy. The user makes the updates in the MDM Hierarchy coach view. |
Services for the MDM_Tree coach view
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| Save Physical Tree | Updates the Physical MDM operational server with changes that a user makes to the entity data. The user makes the updates in the MDM Tree coach view. |
| Save Virtual Tree | Updates the Virtual MDM operational server with changes that a user makes to the entity data. The user makes the updates in the MDM Tree coach view. |
Services for Virtual Suspected Duplicate process applications
Although these integration services are designed for the process application in IBM® Stewardship Center, you can use these integration services independently.
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| Get Virtual Members for Task | Retrieves all member records that are associated with a given task in the MDM Virtual engine. |
| Is Virtual SDP Task Resolved? | Queries the MDM Virtual engine to determine if a task is resolved. |
| Resolve Virtual SDP Tasks | Uses the MDM_SDV_Change_History business object to update the operational server with the changes that are necessary to resolve the suspected duplicates task. |
Services for Physical MDM transactions
These integration services are used for Physical MDM transactions.
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| Physical MDM Get Date Format | Provides a method to retrieve the date time format from the Physical MDM operational server. |
| Physical MDM Composite Txn | Provides a method to invoke a Physical MDM composite transaction from within IBM Business Process Manager. |
| Physical MDM Inquiry | Provides a method to invoke a Physical MDM inquiry from within IBM Business Process Manager. |
| Physical MDM Txn | Provides a method to invoke a Physical MDM transaction from within IBM Business Process Manager. |
| Physical MDM XML Response | Provides a method to invoke a Physical MDM Transaction from within IBM Business Process Manager, but returns the XML instead of a MDM business object. |
Services for enumerated types
These integration services are used for enumerated data types (EDT).
| Integration service | Description |
|---|---|
| Physical MDM Get Options | Returns a list of options for the enumerated data type that is specified. |
| Virtual MDM Get Options | Returns a list of options for the enumerated data type that is specified. |