Data Manager Engine
The Data Manager engine consists of a number of programs that you can run from either Data Manager Designer (on Windows®) or directly on the command line (on Windows®, UNIX®, or Linux®). For most applications, you can design and prototype using Data Manager Designer on a Windows computer. You can then deploy your builds to either a Windows, UNIX®, or Linux® computer that has the Data Manager engine. The Data Manager engine can be installed on Windows, UNIX, or Linux computers.
Data Manager Designer
In Data Manager Designer, you use builds to specify a set of processing rules that determine how Data Manager acquires data from the source databases, transforms the data, and delivers it to the target database. This information is stored in a Data Manager catalog. Data Manager Designer can be installed only on Windows computers.
Data Movement Service
You can use the Data Movement Service to run and schedule builds and job streams on remote computers using Cognos Connection, the user interface for Cognos 8. To use Data Movement Service, Cognos 8 must be installed in your environment, and Data Manager Engine must be installed in the same location as the Cognos 8 server components.
Data Manager Network Services
Use Data Manager Network Services to execute builds and job streams on remote computers from a Data Manager design environment computer. For example, if you installed the Data Manager engine on a UNIX or Linux computer, you can also install the Data Manager Network Services server so that you can execute builds and job streams on that server from Data Manager Designer. Data Manager Network Services includes a server component that must be installed with Data Manager Engine. The server enables communication, either directly through a socket connection, or through an application server, between Data Manager Designer and the Data Manager engine.