ASI support for standard message formats

Some InfoSphere® MDM solutions must adapt InfoSphere MDM messages according to their own XML standards or XML based industry standards, such as IFW, ACCORD, and NIEM.

For example, some solutions might need to send IFW Web service requests to recordInvolvedParty instead of the InfoSphere MDM addParty transaction.

All aspects of the message, such as envelope structure, operation name, and business objects are dictated by industry message standards.

During the solution development phase, you can use the InfoSphere MDM Workbench to map industry standard messages to internal InfoSphere MDM business objects and transactions. The Workbench uses the Graphical Data Mapping (GDM) editor plugin to describe the mapping between industry message formats and the default InfoSphere MDM transaction format.

The Workbench generates message transformation artifacts to adapt incoming messages. However, the Workbench does not generate the message format artifacts themselves.

At runtime, InfoSphere MDM transforms custom message formats into InfoSphere MDM business objects during transaction invocation.