Active Data Warehousing With ADABAS SQL GATEWAY

Active Data Warehousing With ADABAS SQL GATEWAY ADABAS SQL GW is Non a Sacrificial Gateway to ADABAS! Nikolai Chmatov Manager, Tactical Solution, Market Product & Services October 16, 2012 nikolai.chmatov@rbc.com +1 416-955-2326

Table of Contents Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 Slides 7-8 Slides 9-17 Slides 18-19 What was Before? What was the Target? Active Data Warehousing vs Traditional Data Warehousing Business Value of Data Freshness WHY the ADABAS SQL GATEWAY? HOW was it done? What Else? D E M O

What was Before? WHY Active Data Warehousing? WHY with ADABAS SQL GATEWAY? Traditional Data Warehousing (TDW) Traditional Data Warehousing is an integrated & logically consistent store of detailed data used to aid the decision making process. Little to no interaction with customer or supplier channels Primarily batch data feeds (one way data flow) Variety of the predefined non customizable reports Operational and/or Transactional System (s) ADABAS Batch Traditional Data Warehouse

What was the Target? WHY Active Data Warehousing? WHY with ADABAS SQL GATEWAY? Active Data Warehousing (ADW) Active Data Warehousing is traditional DW plus very current detailed data (combined with historical data) for strategic, tactical and eventdriven business decision making. Timely updated (Real Time/Good Time) Pre-designed triggers and queries to detect significant events Event-based Notification Service (ENS) Ability to use bi-directional data flows Decision Assistance (via analytic applications). Tracking of tactical decision and actual result. @ Operational and/or Transactional System (s) ADABAS Batch Continuous - Initiate external Process - Update Database - Notify Ops. (e-mail) Active Data Warehouse ENS

Active Data Warehousing vs Traditional Data Warehousing Strategic Decision Making Active data warehousing moves all analysis into the database to answer complex business questions quickly and with scalability... Businesses need to perform analysis for planning, forecasting, profiling, fraud detection, trending, and pattern analysis to identify the proper action based on business drivers. Tactical Decision Making Active data warehousing is also about to supplying information to front-line decision makers... Businesses need repeatable, consistent execution of data-driven decision by all constituencies, regardless of their numbers.

Business Value of Data Freshness What is the relationship of data freshness to business value? Consider the following Value-Time Curve. Value business event The real situation may be more complex, as shown in the following figure. action taken Value business event data stored Information delivered Time Action Taken action distance Time

WHY the ADABAS SQL GATEWAY? Oracle CDC Adapters (Adabas & VSAM) Pros - Publish-and-Subscribe Model Cons - CDC adapters are integrated by the Oracle Application Server - Too many components and platforms TIBCO Object Service Broker (Adapters for Adabas & VSAM) Pros Good for stabile process (TDW but not ADW) Cons TIBCO Object Service Broker s rules engine is an external process written in assembler, COBOL, PL1/1, CICS, C, etc - SDKs are available for use with 3rd generation programming languages including Java, C, and C++. - These adapters provide performance by capturing changes directly from the database logs. iway Software's Intelligent Adapter (Connectors for Adabas & VSAM) Pros Third-party products can also access the adapter via iway connectors, including ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC Cons All dictionaries are on Mainframe side and any changes in data definition will required re-compiling entire dictionary and re-link it with the Connector. SOFTWARE AG/CONNEX ADABAS SQL Gateway Pros imports Predict data dictionaries or Natural DDMs or/and imports Adabas metadata directly from Dynamic DDL and FDT into a CONNX Data Dictionary file (CDD). creates virtual tables to represent MU and PEs single metadata model that efficiently spans all enterprise data sources Third-party products can also access ADABAS data via ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC Cons Poor user interface

What was Before? Regular or Traditional Data Warehousing Daily (overnight) data refreshing Predefine queries & reports Mainly distribution via e-mails or via DW Front-End Very minimal ability of ad hoc queries & reporting Business requirements Operates with real data on a real-time or good time base with the core business applications Be able to create ad hoc queries & reports Be able to monitor data or/and event changes Be able to run all existing reports Be able to capture some particular data events Be able to update data on certain conditions

Classical Data/Knowledge Pyramid Act Visualize Distribute Analyze Assign Context Gather

HOW was it done? Operational and/or Transactional System (s) ADABAS Batch Traditional Data Warehouse Oracle & PowerBuilder

HOW was it done? Operational and/or Transactional System (s) Batch ADABAS MS Windows Server 2003 ADABAS SQL GW IBM iseries Access Oracle Call Interface MS SQL Server Views & Historical tables Creation of Composite Entity Traditional Data Warehouse Oracle & PowerBuilder

HOW was it done? ADABAS Database defined at MS SQL Level as a Linked Server

HOW was it done? ADABAS Database defined at MS SQL Level as a Linked Server Starting from MS SQL Server 2005 we can use CONNX OLE DB Provider driver directly when SQL 2000 can work only with MS OLE DB provider for ODBC

HOW was it done? ADABAS Database defined at MS SQL Level as a Linked Server Starting from MS SQL Server 2005 we can use CONNX OLE DB Provider driver directly when SQL 2000 can work only with MS OLE DB provider for ODBC Make sure that you ve got a right Server Options

HOW was it done? ADABAS Database defined at MS SQL Level as a Linked Server Starting from MS SQL Server 2005 we can use CONNX OLE DB Provider driver directly when SQL 2000 can work only with MS OLE DB provider for ODBC Make sure that you ve got a right Server Options Do not forget Security!

HOW was it done? ADABAS Database defined at MS SQL Level as a Linked Server Starting from MS SQL Server 2005 we can use CONNX OLE DB Provider driver directly when SQL 2000 can work only with MS OLE DB provider for ODBC Make sure that you ve got a right Server Options Do not forget Security! And at the end, after all of the above ADABAS Database can be accessed as a regular SQL View or Table from any SQL-based tool.

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There are so many ways of doing it There are so many stories telling how But in fact - the right way is the way which is working! Questions??? Nikolai Chmatov Manager, Tactical Solution, Market Product & Services October 15, 2012 nikolai.chmatov@rbc.com +1 416-918-3466

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