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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

Connecting the Workflow Manager Screen


When you open the Workflow Monitor Screen, you need to connect to repository and integration service to view the workflow and task status. You can get the workflow Manager Screen in various ways:

  • Under All Programs, go to Informatica 9.5.1 | Client | PowerCenter Client | PowerCenter Workflow Monitor.
  • From Designer or Workflow Manager Screen, click on the icon representing the Workflow Monitor (M).

Once you open the Workflow Monitor Screen, perform the following steps to connect and view the workflow and task status:

  1. Open the Workflow Monitor Screen.
  2. Right-click on the repository you wish to connect (if you have multiple repositories available), and connect to it using username and password. In our case, the repository is REPO.
  3. Once you connect to the repository, the next step is to connect to integration service. This is done by right-clicking on the integration service you created. In our case, the integration service is INTE.
  4. Select the Workflow you wish...