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Chapter 5 Introduction to Transactional Business Process Automation : What is MSDTC?

What is MSDTC?
The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator is the transaction manager program. This runs as a service on Windows and coordinates transactions between distributed data stores.
The iProcess Suite integrates with the MSDTC by creating and controlling distributed transactions. This means that iProcess can start a transaction by sending a request to the MSDTC and then other resources (such as databases) can enlist in the transaction as required by communicating with the MSDTC.
The MSDTC can be administered using the Component Services Console (as shown in the following example).
You can configure iProcess to use MSDTC by setting the EAI_NEEDS_MSDTC process attribute - refer to “Administering Process Attributes” in the TIBCO iProcess Engine: Administrator's Guide for more information about setting process attributes.This means that instead of the transaction being controlled by the local resource manager, the MSDTC is notified of the transaction and other distributed resource managers can enlist in the transaction.
Refer to the Microsoft documentation for more information about administering and monitoring MSDTC transactions.

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