IBM Information Server Services and ASB Agent

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...