Product Overview

Organizations are overwhelmed by data access demands. Customers, suppliers, and employees are demanding 7x24x365 access from mobile devices. Business units need support for digital channel initiatives. Data from multiple systems must be consolidated to satisfy regulatory requirements. Unisys Data Exchange is data integration software that is designed to help organizations address these issues.

Data Exchange propagates selected data from one data store to another data store. While propagating the data, Data Exchange applies transformations to the data as needed by the business processes and the applications that support them.

The data propagation and transformation capabilities of Data Exchange are designed to facilitate timely access to data for decision support and additional business processing while minimizing the impact to the online transaction processing environment.

Data Exchange can help you reduce software development costs by avoiding the development and support of your own data integration and transformation tools. Data Exchange is designed to work with existing applications and databases and to help you avoid the need for costly changes to them.

Data Exchange is also designed to work with a variety of databases and operating systems.

General Features

Data Exchange has a transformation definition facility that allows you to select data items in the resource data store and to determine how and where each of them gets placed in one or more target data stores. You can customize transformations to satisfy your business requirements by defining your own functions for manipulating the data. The source or target data store can be used in multiple transformations as needed to satisfy your business requirements.

A changed data transformation is a near real-time process to propagate and transform selected changed data from a source data store to one or more target data stores.

Once you start a changed data transformation, Data Exchange provides a continuous fees of changed data from the source data store to the target data store. Data in the target data store can be used by other applications. You can manage operations, such as starting and stopping a changed data transformation, by using the Data Exchange Runtime Administration facility.

You can use the bulk data transformation facility of Data Exchange to propagate and transform historical data from a source data store to one or more target data stores.

Data Exchange is designed to be efficient. It enables you to select which data items to propagate and it can propagate only changed data. In addition, you can define filters so that only the data that satisfies certain criteria are propagated. These features help you avoid the additional overhead associated with propagating data that is not needed in the target data store. Data Exchange also offloads transformation processing to a server that is separate from the servers hosting the source and target data stores. This is designed to minimize the impact of Data Exchange on database performance.

Data Exchange provides tools with graphical interfaces for transformation definition and administration. Programming skills are not required to use these tools.

Data Store Pairings

Data Exchange 4.0 supports the following source and target data store pairings.

Software Components

The following comprise the software components of the Data Exchange product.

Configuration Requirements

Refer to the Unisys Data Exchange Installation and Configuration Guide on support.unisys.com for detailed hardware and software requirements such as specific software editions and release levels.

Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP Data Store

If you are using Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP as a source data store, you also require ClearPath MCP Interface to Microsoft Message Queuing.

If you are using Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP as a source data store and are performing bulk data transformations, you also require Enterprise Database OLE DB Data Provider for ClearPath MCP (included in the MCP operating environment)

If you are using Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP as a target data store, you also require ClearPath Application integration Services, Enterprise Edition.

Relational Database Server for ClearPath OS 2200 Data Store

Microsoft SQL Server Data Store

Oracle Database Data Store

Development Workbench, Runtime Service, Runtime Administration, and Agent for SQL Server

Product Information

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