The Data Integration service enables you to manage data pipelines by connecting, designing, deploying, monitoring, and enhancing them, without requiring extensive technical expertise. You can create robust data pipelines that connect critical systems to modern platforms, ensuring timely customer data availability and enhancing analytics.
Key features of Data Integration include:
- Connect data across systems: Integrate complex data from traditional systems, open systems databases, mainframe, and IBM i with modern cloud platforms.
- Achieve faster time-to-value: Access data quickly to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget, integrating complex data formats without coding.
- Make data accessible and future-ready: Share data across the business, capture metadata using the Data Catalog, and keep your architecture flexible for new applications and use cases.
Data Integration configuration guide
Follow these steps to configure data sources, establish connections, and manage data flows within Data Integration.
- Install the agent: Install the agent, which acts as a bridge between your data sources and the Data Integration platform, enabling secure data transfers.
- Configure replication connections: Configure connections to your data sources and targets - on-premise databases or cloud platforms - to integrate your data.
- Set up replication engines: Install and configure the replication engines to execute data replication tasks based on the configured parameters.
- Set up replication pipelines: Create replication pipelines that determine how data flows from source to target, ensuring efficient and real-time replication.
- Manage replication pipelines: Oversee the data replication
process to ensure continuous, efficient data transfer between systems,
including:
- Manage continuous replication pipelines
- Manage mainframe replication pipelines
Permissions required to access Integration features
The following table outlines the permissions required to view, manage, or operate replication pipelines within the Integration service.
| Feature | Permission | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Replication Pipeline | View |
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| Replication Pipeline | Manage |
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| Replication Pipeline | Operate |
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