expressor administrator

expressor administrator is a comprehensive web-based project setup and management application. Architects, data stewards, administrators, and project managers use expressor administrator to register hardware and software resources with which an expressor drawing will interact, set up an expressor project, manage personnel assignments, perform semantic rationalization tasks, and create the data and network descriptions used by developers. It is the primary interface for setting up a project and creating:

• image files—xml files that provide descriptions of external data record structures
• network files—xml files that identify where data or processing is located and the level of parallelism deployed
• role assignments—user access privileges within the expressor environment

Image and network files provide the foundation for projects, and role assignments determine user privileges. Role-based privileges allow organizations to streamline productivity and simplify integration. For example, the role of architect has the most privileges (but not all) within expressor, the role of developer is limited to use of expressor illustrator, and the role of manager only has privileges for assigning users to projects.

expressor administrator provides a friendly graphical user interface that allows users to easily create images of data structures.

An architect would create a project in expressor administrator and write the required image and network files. Then the architect or manager would assign the users participating in the project. Role-based privileges allow organizations to streamline productivity and simplify integration.

In expressor, whenever you define a term, business definition or image file, it is associated with a subject area, which is a category for grouping artifacts. expressor administrator ships with over 100 pre-defined subjects including banking, account, and country, and provides the ability to manage subject areas. Users can easily add new subjects and de-activate pre-defined subjects that do not apply to their data integration project.

expressor administrator features a user-specific workspace for building project image and network files. This new model follows the same check-out/check-in paradigm as used in expressor illustrator and expressor constructor, and it allows for networks and images to be developed over time and over many user sessions before being committed to the expressor repositor.

expressor administrator offers the ability to copy images, networks, and projects as well as the ability to create project version/snapshots that preserve published project state and can then be used through the expressor communicator for historical analysis. expressor administrator also provides the ability to automatically create an image from relational tables and COBOL copybooks, as well as a well-defined API to allow import of any other metadata descriptions.