TM Technical Papers

These are a collection of technical documents describing individual features to be found in TM.

 

Transformation Manager (TM) provides two distinct means for producing an audit trail of transform processing:

 

TM allows a number of models, not necessarily of the same type, to be grouped together as a composite model, to form the source of a transform. This feature is known as the Group Adapter:

  • Transforming from Multiple Sources to Single Target

 

Read about the advanced features available with Transformation Manager that provide support for sharing transform code:

 

TM provides in-built access to a wide variety of data formats:

 

TM provides a number of advanced features to improve performance and scalability of transforms when reading and writing RDBMS, XML, and Java:

 

TM Regression Test Suite is made available to clients to maintain their own suite of XML regression tests. Comparators of produced and expected output enables errors in transforms to be easily detected and verified.

Instance traceability permits the user to discover how individual items are being transformed:

 

Test Driven Development is particularly effective when developing transforms using the interactive design and test approach offered using Transformation Manager (TM) and especially when replacing an existing set of coded transforms (Java or XSLT) and regression test results are available:

 

TM can deploy a transform that waits for source data to be available before transforming the data and writing to the target. This form of transform is executed many times and is referred to as a long-lived transform.
For a long-lived deployment example, click below:

 

Transformation Manager transforms can be deployed in one of two ways. The simplest approach is to deploy a transform that executes in a single pass reading data from the source, transforming the data and writing to the target. This is referred to as a short-lived transform as the transform is terminated on completion of the transform. Read more:

 

The TM Binary Adapter allows the user easily to access Binary Files effectively and in an efficient manner. The model of the Binary Files may be loaded in a number of ways, and once loaded the TM Binary Adapter can access a number of formats without the typical level of effort and skills when attempted in a purely hand crafted way:

 

Transformation Manager’s feature, Change Model, allows the user to change either the source or target data model within a transform project...

 

Lookups provide a simple method of extracting values held in an external database, or in the source or target data models of the current project, and entering those values into your transform:

Transformation Manager (TM) includes an automatic unit of measure (UOM) conversion system for all numeric data types and for string types, if this is appropriate: