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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By: Rahul Malewar

Overview of this book

Informatica PowerCenter is an industry-leading ETL tool, known for its accelerated data extraction, transformation, and data management strategies. This book will be your quick guide to exploring Informatica PowerCenter’s powerful features such as working on sources, targets, transformations, performance optimization, scheduling, deploying for processing, and managing your data at speed. First, you’ll learn how to install and configure tools. You will learn to implement various data warehouse and ETL concepts, and use PowerCenter 10.x components to build mappings, tasks, workflows, and so on. You will come across features such as transformations, SCD, XML processing, partitioning, constraint-based loading, Incremental aggregation, and many more. Moreover, you’ll also learn to deliver powerful visualizations for data profiling using the advanced monitoring dashboard functionality offered by the new version. Using data transformation technique, performance tuning, and the many new advanced features, this book will help you understand and process data for training or production purposes. The step-by-step approach and adoption of real-time scenarios will guide you through effectively accessing all core functionalities offered by Informatica PowerCenter version 10.x.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using the Workflow Monitor


The Workflow Monitor Screen, as mentioned earlier, displays the status of the running workflow and tasks. It has two views to show the status -- the Gantt Chart view and the Task view. You can select the view you wish to see. The Workflow Monitor screen can be seen in the following screenshot:

The screen is divided into the following sections:

  • Navigator: This section of the screen displays various repositories, integration service, and the workflow names running at the instant. This section shows all the objects that have been executed at least once.
  • Output: This section displays various system-level information details received from integration eervice and repository.
  • Time: This section displays the timings of the execution of various workflows.
  • Gantt Chart View: This view shows the information of various workflow runs in chronological order.
  • Task View: This view shows the information of various workflow runs in a report form.
  • Task Details: This section shows the details...