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IBM's Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) is a great tool it is flexible enough to communicate with any target application and if the target application is not available it can communicate through the target application's Web Service API. Now imagine that you have your Assembly Lines configured and you're ready to go and you want this to run at a specific time everyday or even at an interval how do you do it?

You could run the task in the built-in scheduler that TDI has or you can run it through Task Scheduler.

Why Run the Task Through the Task Scheduler?

Maintenance

If other than yourself was to look at the last time the script ran they wouldn't have to go into TDI and verify. Which could potentially affect your code if the user is unfamiliar with TDI.

Configuration

You can simply set intervals on what time the script will run daily, weekly, monthly, or etc.

Resources

In this you would have your specific solution instance run only at the time you have set in the task scheduler the solution instance only being used when it has to.

How to Set TDI to Run Through the Task Scheduler

Step 1: Export your XML configuration along with the properties file (the properties file is optional) in a new directory (e.g. C:\Batch)

Step 2: Create your own solution directory specifically for this configuration. (e.g. C:\SolutionsBatch)

Step 3: Run the following command:

C:\<TDI>\ibmdisrv -s C:\SolutionsBatch -g

Step 4: Create a batch file in C:\Batch that would be used to run the XML configuration that was exported. The batch file would contain the following code:

C:\<TDI>\ibmdisrv -c C:\Batch\HelloWorld.xml -r HelloWorld -s C:\SolutionsBatch

For more information on the the TDI commands please visit the (IBM Knowledge Centre).

Step 5: Now let’s configure the Windows task Scheduler to run the batch file that we created.

Step 6: Create a new task

Step 7: In the Action tab of the new task select the cmd that you have created as the file to run.

Step 8: In the Trigger tab select you’re the duration as to when the batch file will run.

Step 9: Now your Final Product should look something like this:

Solution Directory:

Batch Files:

Task Scheduler Actions:

Task Scheduler Triggers:

Step 10: There you go, your TDI Configuration is now set to run at a specific interval. Once the batch file has completed running the that state of the Task that you have created returns back to the Ready State.

Streamlining TDI: Running Tasks Through Task Scheduler

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