Information liquidity diagram objects

Chapter 3 Building Information Liquidity Diagrams

Information liquidity diagram objects

You create the following objects in an information liquidity diagram:

Object	Tool	Description
Database		Data store based on a relational model and stored in one or several Physical Data Models. See Databases (ILM).
Server		Hosts the database that stores the tables gathering information. See Servers (ILM).
XML Document		Data store that contains data written under the XML format. Provides access to the XSM model. See XML Documents (ILM).
Data Access Application		Data processing application that provides access to the OOM model. See Data Access Applications (ILM).
Conceptual Data		Data store based on conceptual data and stored in one or several Conceptual Data Models. See Conceptual Data (ILM).
Business Process		Data store based on a process model and stored in one or several Business Process Models. See Business Process (ILM).
Transformation process		Data movement process that lets you design and document data transformations using Data Transformation Diagrams and Transformation Control Flow Diagrams. See the "Data Transformation Basics" chapter.
Flat file		File that contains data and its format. See Flat Files (ILM).
Data Access Link		Relationship that documents the way data is mapped between two data stores (database, data access application, conceptual data or XML document). See Data Access Links (ILM).
Replication process		Represents a server engine which role is to make a copy of data incoming from a given database into one or several databases or replication processes. See Replication Processes (ILM).
Replication Server		Represents a Replication Server. This tool only displays when the Replication Server XEM is attached to the ILM. See the "Working with Replication Server" chapter.
MobiLink		Represents a MobiLink Server. This tool only displays when the MobiLink XEM is attached to the ILM. See the "Working with Mobilink" chapter.
Publication	N/A	Defines published data or procedures for a database connection. It allows the identification of a set of data to replicate and from where it is extracted. See Publications (ILM).
Article	N/A	Corresponds to a PDM table or view. It allows the identification of tables or views to replicate. See Articles (ILM).
Where clause	N/A	Script that complements the code generation (SQL) to restrict the rows of a table you want to replicate. See Article property sheet Where Clause tab.
Column	N/A	Data structure that contains an individual data item within a row (record) model equivalent of a database field. See Columns (ILM).
Procedure	N/A	Precompiled collection of SQL statements stored under a name in the database and processed as a unit. See Procedures (ILM).
Subscription	N/A	Establishes a link between a publication and a database connection. It defines where data published via the publication must be replicated. See Subscriptions (ILM).
User	N/A	Name that identifies a person or group working with objects in an ILM. See Users (ILM).
Connection group	N/A	Set of data connections that provides a relay in case the primary database goes down. See Data Connection Groups (ILM).
Event script	N/A	Defines how events on the replication process or on an article are implemented. See Event Scripts (ILM).
Process connection		Relationship that specifies the way data is moved between two replication processes or between two transformation processes. See Process Connections (ILM).
Data connection		Relationship that specifies the way data is moved between a database and a replication process, a data store and a transformation process or two data stores. See Data Connections (ILM).
Generation link		Relationship that documents generation dependencies between at least two data stores (database, XML document, conceptual data, business process or data access application). See Generation Links (ILM).