Easy integration with Domino using TDI
Best of all, it's free! It's included with Domino 8.0 and later. (What does "Limited entitlement" mean). This page describes TDI6, while TDI7 is available to Domino 8.5.1 customers (read more about TDI7: an awesome product!).
New IBM Redpaper: Integrate Domino with the world using TDI7
Head over here if you're looking for the SPNEGO integration in Domino 8.5.1
Click here for a "What on earth does TDI do?" and what Domino bloggers such as CuriousMitch, ChrashTestChix, and Domino Blog have to say about TDI.
TDI (Tivoli Directory Integrator) is bundled with Domino, meaning that customers are entitled to using it to integrate their Domino environment with other systems. Here's how to get your hands on it.
TDI treats a Domino database like any other database, and allows you to integrate it with all sorts of other systems. The simple uses is reading files in many formats and driving that data into Domino. TDI even detects changes in the files between runs so that only the changed records are updated in Domino.
There are three videos specific to Domino integration. many more are available in the links further below. On the right you see the following:
Exporting contacts from names.nsf to CSV and vCard formats. TDI integrates into almost anything, these formats are just examples. It's just as easy to write into an SAP system or drive the contacts into a Web Service or other target that TDI supports.
Driving data the opposite direction, into Domino, and more specifically into names.nsf as new contacts from an XML file. Again, the target could be any .nsf database and the source could be any system/format that TDI supports
Finally, an oldie but goodie:
A somewhat more specific video shows how to integrate Domino with Active Directory. This as been viewed by several thousand people after Ed Brill blogged about it. There´s more on this theme below.
If this is making you itch for more, then we have just the spots for you:
CrashTestChix are running a series on TDI:
Then you will want to watch their videos from LotusSphere 2010:
On www.tdi-users.org there's a good number of tutorials and introductions. Try the TDI 101 first to get a broader overview. This is where you´ll find the follow-up to the AD-Domino video on Youtube, offering a closer look behind the scene. This is the place to be to find everything TDI, but...
..in case you want the next piece right now, go for the "Getting Started with TDI" doc. It can be read as-is, but it´s also a guide to a simple tutorial (the necessary files are in the "TDI 101" link above).
Then there's a great and detailed document on integrating TDI with Domino that's really worth reading.
Once you start digging in, there's a good Google groups support forum for TDI that is frequently visited by IBMers from the development organization.
Happy TDI'ing, the biggest little secret in IBM! (says Charles)