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IBM Information Server Services and ASB Agent

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What Is IBM Information Server Services?  A service receives a request from an application, and this request will be passed to the  processing Information Server product module (DataStage Jobs or Queries) where the  request will be processed and the result will be sent back to the application. Services  follow a "request and respond" technique in a service-oriented architecture.  What Is ASB Agent?  ASB stands for " Application  Service  Backbone ". An ASB agent is a Java based  background process running on all machines that have an IBM Information Server  engine installed. Whenever there is a request for service that needs processing by the  IBM Information Server component, ASB agent receives and conveys the request. ASB  agent acts as a bus over which the services are delivered. ASB agent is a  communicator between the service tier and engine tier within the IBM information server  topology. See Figure 1. As shown in Figure 1, the IBM Information Server includes...

Import/Export an oracle db/schema

Prerequisites: Import: Oracle DB setup with default DB the username that has access to the import DB Remember to set the character set if importing Unicode Import/Export: ip-address, SID, user/pass (sysDBA) To  export/ import  a DB using telnet/linux console: Set the environment variables (should exist) ? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 <span style= "text-decoration: underline;" >Linux< /span >: $ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/10 .2.0 /db_1/bin $ORACLE_SID = myoracl $PATH = /u01/app/oracle/product/10 .2.0 /db_1/bin   <span style= "text-decoration: underline;" >Windows< /span >: SET NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.ELI8MSWIN1253 Startup the DB (if needed) ? 1 sqlplus /nolog SQL prompt: ? 1 2 3 connect user /pass as sysdba startup exit Startup the listener (if needed) ? 1 2 cd to oracle app product path ($ORACLE_HOME /bin ) . /lsnrctl start Startup the em console (web interface, if needed) ? 1 . /emctl start Export  data entire database: ? 1 exp dbuser /pas...