Integrating scheduler applications with InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server

You can integrate scheduler applications with IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaboration Server so that the scheduler applications can schedule jobs to run from the command line.

InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server provides a template shell script that you modify to define jobs that you want to schedule to run in various scheduler applications.

To allow a scheduler application access to run jobs:

1. Identify the InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server jobs that are scheduled by an external scheduler. For example, you might have several InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server status reports that must be produced as part of a monthly review. Or you might automate running an InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server import as part of an external scheduled delta refresh into InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server.
2. Enable access to the InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server code.

   To schedule a InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server job, the scheduler must be authorized to the local InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server code. In most cases, you must set up a scheduler-specific UNIX user that has the same permissions and authorizations as the InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server user. In addition, this user profile might need to set up the correct InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server environment.

3. Create the scripts. See Creating the scripts for external scheduling.
4. Run the job. You can run the job from a command line, or if you use Tivoli Workload Scheduler, you can use the Tivoli Workload Scheduler user interface to schedule and run the job.
   • Running an external scheduler job from the command line
   • Running a job from the Tivoli Workload Scheduler interface

For information about how to work with jobs inside of InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server, see Creating and scheduling jobs.