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Glossary

AssemblyLine The basic work object within a

Server. It consists of Connectors, Parsers and

business logic. Connectors feed data in and out of

the AssemblyLine.

AssemblyLine Pool A pool of identical threads

that can be used to increase efficiency and where

reuse strategy can be configured.

Attribute Contained in Entries and holding Values

(single or multiple). See also Task Parameters.

Attribute Mapping Mapping of Attributes from the

data source to the AssemblyLine. To be more

precise this is mapping from the raw Connector

attributes to the work Entry. Attribute mapping is

done either in the Input Map tab or the Output Map

tab (depends of the mode of the Connector).

CloudScape See System Store.

Components The IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator

consists of a kernel being the Server, and the IBM

Tivoli Directory Integrator Config Editor. In addition,

we talk about components such as Connectors,

EventHandlers, Script Components, Function

Components, Conditional Components and Parsers.

These can, to a certain extent, be distributed and

upgraded independent of the kernel.

Computed Changes A special feature of the

Update mode of a Connector.

Connector A plug-in into your data source in

order to read it. Inside the AssemblyLine we differ

between the Raw Connector object and the

AssemblyLine Connector object, the latter wrapping

the former and having a different set of methods.

See "Objects" in IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.0:

Reference Guide for more information about objects.

Connectors can work in different modes (for

example, Iterate, Delete, Update, AddOnly, Lookup

and CallReply).

Delta A special term in Iterator mode, used when

synchronizing a master and a slave. See "Deltas and

compute changes" in IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator

6.0: Users Guide.

Distinguished Name (DN) In LDAP terms the

fully qualified name of an object in the directory. It is

usually written in a format known as the User

Friendly Name (UFN). The name is a sequence of

(RDNs) separated by a single comma ( , ).

Entry A term used for both the Entry object and

the top level item used by the AssemblyLine and

Connectors (see "Connectors" in IBM Tivoli

Directory Integrator 6.0: Reference Guide). An entry

typically corresponds to a row in a database

table/view, a record from a file or an object in a

directory. Entries contain Attributes which contains

Values. For example, an Iterator might return the

next person (the Entry), having the attributes city,

name and phone. The values of the three attributes

might be London, Holmes and 5632.

Epilog A piece of code that, if present, is run after

the AssemblyLine data flow ends. It typically saves a

parameter to be used the next time the

AssemblyLine runs. See "AssemblyLine setting tab"

in IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.0: Reference

Guide. See also Prolog.