About this Course

This 3-day instructor-led course is the foundation course for the IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender curriculum, and teaches you the fundamentals of WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.3.

IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender provides real-time transformation of complex data, including EDI X12, HIPAA, EDIFACT, and SWIFT. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to use the WebSphere Transformation Extender Design Studio to define, transform, and route business objects and complex flat file data. Specific topics covered by the course include an overview of the WebSphere Transformation Extender product and its features, creating and deploying maps, and working with a resource registry. Hands-on exercises gives you practical experience with skills such as optimizing maps, handling and logging errors, defining data, and indexing output.

Audience Profile

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

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Define workspaces and projects using the Eclipse Workbench
• Use the Type Designer to define data structures, data properties, and data components as type trees
• Validate type trees to ensure that they accurately describe the data
• Transform flat files using the Map Designer
• Use type design and mapping techniques to improve validation and throughput
• Use the Resource Registry to improve portability between operating environments
• Implement error handling
• Optimize map performance

Prerequisites

You should have :

• a basic understanding of data formats and processing logic and have hands-on experience with Microsoft Windows.

Course Outline

1. Course introduction

2. WebSphere Transformation Extender product overview

3. Eclipse Workbench fundamentals

4. Exercise: Defining workspaces and projects

5. Defining the data

6. Exercise: Defining the data

7. Defining properties

8. Exercise: Defining item and group properties

9. Defining components

10. Exercise: Completing the type tree

11. Validating data definitions

12. Exercise: Creating a validation map

13. Building additional validation into type trees

14. Exercise: Adding restriction lists and component rules

15. Exercise: Validation concept review (optional)

16. More about mapping

17. Exercise: Indexing an output

18. Functional maps

19. Exercise: File to file transformation

20. More efficient mapping

21. Exercise: Extracting data using the EXTRACT function and partitions

22. Exercise: Using COUNT and SUM functions

23. Exercise: Creating a second output file (optional)

24. Error handling

25. Exercise: Error handling and logging

26. Resource Registry

27. Exercise: Using the Resource Registry

28. Map optimization

29. Exercise: Using the Map Profiler

30. Exercise: Configuring card and map settings

31. Map deployment

32. Course summary