DSXchange

Hi all,
We need to expose DataStage jobs as web service, so that they can be called from Java & .Net applications. Can you pls. let me know the steps for the same or which tools will enable us to implement this requirement.

Thanks,
Sachin

First of all, let's get you in the proper forum... and here we are.

Secondly, it's not a short conversation that a post or two can sum up. Luckily, there's a lot of information out there on the subject, official or otherwise, including this from the official documentation. Search the internet for other discussions. You might also look through some of the posts in this forum as well.

One of the buzzwords to look up is WSDL.

This is done directly, and very nicely, if you have licensed and installed the Information Services Director. .....search this forum....and the formal doc at the KC...there are years of good posts....also look for WISD and RTI for additional information (WebSphere Information Services Directoe and Real Time Integration respectively). ISD basically uses the core of a Job and makes the source and target your web service client.....for request/response processing. You can also use it to launch regular Kobs, but the true value is in making the Job be "the" wen service. It supports REST and SOAP,.and also several legacy protocols.

Ernie

Okay, Ernie... I get that "KC" is the Knowledge Center that I linked to but a little soft on what "Kobs" or the "wen service" might be.

On my phone and on an airplane. Sorry! Not going to try and correct those.... ; ) ....unless of course, I type something like kson instead of json. haha.

Ernie

Regular job design: Job design for exposing as Web service: That's it for job design changes. I'm assuming here that the original job processes XML that looks like a web request payload, so probably includes some XML-handling stage(s).
Then you need to configure the job via the Information Server Console (e.g. "always running" vs "auto start", number of instances, and so on).