Cooperative Software: ETI Data System Library Products Allow

Software Announcement
April 4, 2000
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Cooperative Software: ETI Data System Library
Products Allow Incompatible Systems to
Exchange Information
Overview
The ETI*Extract FX was introduced
as part of the Developer Marketing
Partnerships program. It is now
available through the IBM
Cooperative Marketing program.
ETI*Extract FX moves data between
incompatible systems in
heterogeneous computing
environments.
Global 2000 companies worldwide
use ETI*EXTRACT in a variety of
industries and government agencies.
ETI*Extract FX is integrated with the
Visual Warehouse for scheduling
and metadata browsing through the
ETI MetaScheduler for the Visual
Warehouse tool. You can configure
ETI*Extract FX to be either
client/server or host-based.
At a Glance
The ETI*Extract FX program
accommodates most types of data
collection and transformation logic,
regardless of complexity.
Benefits:
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Reduced implementation time
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Increased quality
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Reduced costs of:
Automates the creation and
execution of the programs and
scripts necessary to extract,
transform, move, and load data
The products in this announcement
are available as part of the
Cooperative Marketing program.
Product information has been
provided by the solution developer,
Evolutionary Technologies
International, Inc.
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Helps reduce IS costs regardless
of platform or operating system
Key Prerequisites
Features:
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Enables most databases, file
systems, or networks to be used
as a source or target
Server
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Operable with virtually any data
store, data platform, or
operating environment
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Intuitive GUI for specifying
source-to-target mappings and
customized transformation
rules
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Automatic generation of all
necessary programs, JCL, and
execution scripts
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Efficient, scalable extraction,
transformation, movement, and
loading
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Comprehensive, flexible, and
automated metadata capture
and management capabilities
that support impact analysis
and improve data
understanding
The ETI*Extract FX program:
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Builds and maintains data
warehouses
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Implements applications from
vendors such as:
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SAP
PeopleSoft
Baan
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Migrates to new architectures
such as client/server
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Prepares legacy data for the
year 2000
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Supports enterprise data
infrastructures
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Pentium II with MMX  at
233 MHz, or faster, running
Windows NT 4.0
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RS/6000 Model E30, running
AIX Version 4.2.1 or 4.3
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UltraSPARC-1 running Solaris
Version 2.5.1 or 2.6
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HP 9000 Series C160, running
HP-UX 10.20
Client
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Pentium II with MMX at 233 MHz,
running Windows NT 4.0 or
Windows 95, and X-terminal
Availability Date
April 4, 2000
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Application implementation
and interoperability
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Data consolidation and
warehousing
This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative,
call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com.
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Description
Existing ETI*EXTRACT users can move to ETI*Extract FX
without losing productivity.
ETI*Extract FX is a set of software productivity tools that:
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Automates the writing of programs that:
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Features of ETI*Extract FX include:
Retrieve the data needed from any system
Transform it
Load it into any other system
Constructs and maintains data warehouses
Building an effective data warehouse commonly
requires consolidating data from multiple applications
and data stores. Using ETI*Extract FX, users can
generate custom programs to access:
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Any popular database engine
Hierarchical or networked databases
Specialized application structures like SAP
It can efficiently automate:
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Data extraction
Transformation
Movement
Loading
Providing robust metadata for:
-- Technical administrators
-- End users
GUI and spreadsheet-like point-and-click screens that
enable intuitive source-to-target data mapping and
transformation specifications
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Automatic generation of all necessary programs, JCL,
and execution scripts to process end-to-end,
bidirectional data conversion and migration, reducing
development
cost
and
speeding
application
development
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Easy programming regeneration that reduces
application and data warehouse maintenance cost
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The ability to:
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Implements SAP, Baan, A.
G.
PeopleSoft, all of which can be
applications
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Physically move data directly between source and
target platforms to provide efficient processing for
scalable implementations
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Handle virtually any type or volume of data, which
allows users to leverage any and all data in their
applications
Supports direct access and manipulation of data in
COBOL or C languages, using:
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requires
simplifies
database
including
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Makes all users client-enabled
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Increases flexibility
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Brings the power of distributed processing to
enterprise data management
Enables users to configure the product to meet their
needs
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Allows users to mix and match hardware platforms and
reduce hardware costs
DB2
IMS
Oracle
Informix
Sybase
SAP
Teradata
Most operating systems, including:
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Allows processing workload to be shared between the
server and the clients
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Database applications such as:
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Edwards, and
fed by other
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MVS -OS/390
AS/400
Windows NT
UNIX file
System files such as VSAM
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Comprehensive, flexible, and automated metadata
capture and capabilities that include versioning and
reporting
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The ability to specify all data handling logic and
business coding standards within the tool, which
can virtually eliminate the need for any manual
coding
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Server operating systems can be either UNIX  or
Windows NT
ETI*Extract FX Components
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Client operating systems can be UNIX, Windows NT,
or Windows 95 or Windows 98
Clients: A simple point-and-click screen enables even
nonprogrammers to specify complex data manipulation
instructions.
ETI*Extract FX supports host-based use via X-windows
and client/server use.
With a client/server
configuration, a copy of MetaStore can be obtained
from a server for stand-alone use.
Features include:
Previously, ETI′s components were grouped into tool sets
with master user and conversion specialist users who
could use only certain editors. With ETI*Extract FX, all
editors are available to all users.
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Addresses the cost of maintenance with impact
analysis and the capacity to easily adapt to database
changes
Data bridged between applications often
reformatting and merging. ETI*Extract FX
operations like migrating legacy data to new
systems, architectures, and formats,
client/server and year 2000.
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Individual client users can obtain a copy of the
MetaStore and work remotely or stand-alone.
The distinction between master users and conversion
specialists is eliminated.
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Creates programs and scripts in a variety of languages
such as COBOL, C, and SAP′s ABAP/4 that can run on
virtually any type of source or target platform
regardless of the operating system.
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Captures automatically all of the information about
data collection, conversion, and movement of the
metadata for a detailed audit trail providing metadata
management and metadata about metadata, with the
ETI*Extract FX MetaStore database
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Includes interactive editing tools to define the
computing environment to tailor and extend the data
collection and conversion instructions as needed
ETI*MetaScheduler
for
the
Visual
Warehouse:
ETI*MetaScheduler, formerly Meta Transport Utility,
integrates ETI*Extract FX with Visual Warehouse to allow
Visual Warehouse to:
For example, you can tailor the templates so that
generated programs match the coding and naming
standards of an organization.
ETI*Extract FX Data System Library (DSL): DSL consists
of parameters such as:
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Manage the execution of the ETI*Extract FX-generated
programs necessary to maintain a warehouse
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Display the metadata
ETI*Extract FX
audit
trail
available
from
Features:
Legal datatypes
Retrieve schema mechanism
Templates
Grammars
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Supports the scheduling of conversions
Visual Warehouse can act as the central scheduling
console for ETI*Extract FX-generated programs by
importing a new execution plan generated by
ETI*Extract FX. This plan describes the series of
programs that perform the conversion.
Features:
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Instructs ETI*Extract FX software how to generate
programs for data bridging to or from a specific
database access system or file structure
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Determines the programming language used, enabling
the ETI*Extract FX tools to generate programs and
control scripts like:
Programs within a single data conversion are imported
as cascading business view relationships and run
serially by Visual Warehouse. You can also schedule
execution of programs in parallel.
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Visual Warehouse can read the message and error
files created by ETI*Extract FX programs to gather
status information.
JCL and C-shell
Execution scripts
Reports
The data warehouse administrator monitors the status
of the ETI*Extract FX program via the Visual
Warehouse operations panel. Visual Warehouse then
displays information such as program start and end
time.
The ETI*Extract FX tools need only the DSLs for:
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Specific environments that are the sources for
query and data collection
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Environments that need to be populated with
collected and converted data
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ETI*Extract FX DSLs currently available are:
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Includes control language for the Visual Warehouse
Scheduler
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Sends to Visual Warehouse via the Metadata
Coalition′s metadata interchange
Category 1
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Enables the ETI*Extract FX static metadata:
COBOL/DB2
C/Oracle
COBOL/File System
SAP R/3
Static metadata is information about the:
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Category 2
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COBOL/IMS
C/Informix
C/Sybase
C/File System
C/Teradata
Format of the data warehouse (the schema)
Sources of the data
Transformations applied in loading the data
This information corresponds to ETI*Extract FX
conversion specifications and schemas, including:
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Servers: MetaStore databases reside on the servers and
contain the DSLs and conversions that the client users
create. The servers also contain the licensing component
that allows users to access the client editors.
Source and target databases
Joins
Mappings
Target part filters
Annotations
These add-on products are backward-compatible with
existing ETI*EXTRACT products. This Visual Warehouse
integration requires the following:
Add-on Products
ETI*Impact Analyst
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ETI*EXTRACT Release 3.3.1, or later
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Evaluates the impact of potential changes on database
and data conversion projects before they are made
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Visual Warehouse Version 3.1.1, or later
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Exports all or part of the metadata captured by
ETI*Extract FX to a relational database
ETI*MetaScheduler
Version 1.1.0, or later
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DSLs
Quickly identifies all instances of an item used in a
conversion or across multiple conversions
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Runs your packaged reports included with ETI*Impact
Analyst or add your own reports to execute “what-if”
scenarios on metadata
for
Visual
Warehouse
Year 2000
This is a third-party product, not an IBM product.
Evolutionary Technologies International, Inc. has
represented to IBM that the product is Year 2000 ready;
however, IBM does not make any representations with
regard to the Year 2000 readiness of this product.
These “what-if” scenarios can include questions such
as: “Following conversion chains, what will be affected
by changing the value of this source part?” and “Which
conversions use this schema as a source system?”
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Supplemental Information
April 4, 2000
Technical Information
ETI*Extract FX Stand-alone — Windows NT
Minimum
Primary Industry: Cross industry
Hardware Requirements
ETI*Extract FX Server — Windows NT
Minimum
Hardware Requirements
Processor
Memory
Storage Devices
Other Hardware
Pentium II, 400 MHz, or faster
Two Pentium MMX processors,
233 MHz, or faster
256 MB
6 GB, or more
CD-ROM 4X, or faster
Other Software
Pentium II, 233 MHz, or faster
128 MB
2 GB
CD-ROM 4X, or faster
Software Requirements
Operating System
Other Software
Windows NT Server Version 4.0,
Service Pack 3 required, Service Pack 4
optional
Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows NT
ETI*Extract FX Stand-alone — Windows 95
Software Requirements
Operating System
Processor
Memory
Storage Devices
Other Hardware
Windows NT Server Version 4.0,
Service Pack 3 required,
Service Pack 4 optional
Microsoft  TCP/IP for Windows NT
ETI*Extract FX Client — Windows NT
Minimum
Minimum
Hardware Requirements
Processor
Memory
Storage Devices
Other Hardware
Pentium II, 266 MHz, or faster
128 MB
2 GB
CD-ROM 4X, or faster
Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
Processor
Memory
Storage Devices
Other Hardware
Operating System
Other Software
Pentium II, 233 MHz, or faster
128 MB
200 MB free space
CD-ROM 4X, or faster
Software Requirements
Operating System
Other Software
RS/6000
Hardware Requirements
Windows NT Server Version 4.0
Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows NT
ETI*Extract FX Client — Windows 95
Minimum
Processor
Memory
Storage Devices
Other Hardware
Hardware Requirements
Processor
Memory
Storage Devices
Other Hardware
Windows 95
Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows 95
Pentium II, 233 MHz, or faster
128 MB
200 MB free space
CD-ROM 4X, or faster
Minimum
Model E30, 166 MHz, or faster
256 MB for every three users
2 GB (two locally attached
devices)
CD-ROM 4X, or faster
8-mm tape drive
Monitor: Color, 800 x 600 resolution
Software Requirements
Operating System
Other Software
AIX 4.2.1 or 4.3
AIXwindows  or CDE
Software Requirements
Operating System
Other Software
Windows 95
Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows NT
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General Information
Minimum
Licensing: Programs presented under the Cooperative
Marketing program are licensed and distributed by the
solution developer. Terms and conditions are as provided
by the solution developer.
Processor
UltraSPARC-I 167 MHz (2 CPUs preferred)
Memory
256 MB for every 3 users
Prices: Prices listed are for reference only and subject to
Storage Devices
2 GB free space (two locally
change. Current charges, discounts, allowances and
attached devices)
additional licensing options, if any, are available from the
Other Hardware
CD-ROM drive
solution developer.
4-mm or 8-mm tape drive
Monitor: Color, 800 x 600 resolution
Program service or testing provisions, if any, are provided
by the solution developer.
Software Requirements
Hardware Requirements
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Solaris 2.5.1 or 2.6,
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Configuration Cluster: Developer System
solution
developer
or
from
their
published
Support or Entire Distribution
announcements. IBM has not tested the products and
Other Software
OpenWindows or CDE
cannot
confirm
the
accuracy
of
performance,
compatibility, or any other claims related to the non-IBM
HP 9000 Series 700/800
products.
Questions on the capabilities of non-IBM
products should be addressed to the solution developer
Minimum
of the products.
Operating System
The solution developer′s products are not warranted by
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developer. IBM makes no warranties, express or implied,
including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Address any questions pertaining to warranty coverage
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Hardware Requirements
Processor
HP 9000 Series C160, 160 MHZ
(2 CPUs preferred)
Memory
256 MB for every 3 users
Storage Devices
2 GB free space (two locally
attached devices)
Other Hardware
CD-ROM drive
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Software Requirements
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Operating System
HP UX 10.20
program.
(Patch PHSS 14262)
Other Software
HP Visual User Environment
Customer Financing:
IBM Global Financing offers
(HPVUE) or CDE
attractive financing to credit-qualified commercial and
government customers and Business Partners in more
ETI*Extract FX DSLs currently available are:
than 40 countries around the world. IBM Global Financing
• Category 1
is provided by the IBM Credit Corporation in the United
States. Offerings, rates, terms, and availability may vary
− COBOL/DB2
by country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing
− C/Oracle
organization. Country organizations are listed on the Web
− COBOL/File System
at:
− SAP R/3
•
http://www.financing.ibm.com
Category 2
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COBOL/IMS
C/Informix
C/Sybase
C/File System
C/Teradata
Charges
For all local charges contact your IBM representative.
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New Licensees
Orders for new licenses will be accepted now and
scheduled for shipment by the program supplier now.
Contact your local IBM representative for details.
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Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure
Statements made in this announcement regarding Year 2000 are
“ Year 2000 Readiness Disclosures” under the Year 2000
Information and Readiness Disclosure Act of 1998, a U.S. statute
enacted on October 19, 1998.
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