Overview of InfoSphere MDM and Cast Iron Connector
The InfoSphere® MDM Cast Iron® connector enables cloud integration with on-premises InfoSphere MDM.
Use the InfoSphere MDM Cast Iron connector to expose on-premises MDM business service as REST or web service provider services. Exposing the traditional MDM service for consumption in an enterprise SaaS integration enables reading, writing, searching, and processing notifications from your on-premises MDM.
- IBM® InfoSphere Master Data Management Standard Edition 11.4.0
- IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Advanced Edition 11.4.0
MDM Advanced Edition has many categories of web services, such as Party, Product, Custom Addition, Custom Extension, Custom Inquiry, and Party Maintenance. All of these web services are supported in InfoSphere MDM Cast Iron connector. In MDM standard edition, eSOA web services are supported in InfoSphere MDM Cast Iron connector.
The InfoSphere MDM Cast Iron connector supports both JSON and XML payload. The request to MDM can be either in JSON or XML. In the background at run time, the InfoSphere MDM Cast Iron connector makes a web service call to MDM and when the request is sent as a JSON payload, it is internally converted to XML before performing the web service call. The corresponding response is converted back to JSON before sending the response to the downstream activity.