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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

Working with the workflow log


When you select to generate the workflow log, another screen opens that shows the details related to the workflow run. Informatica PowerCenter writes all the details related to the execution of the workflow in the log. Using the workflow log, you can check all the system-related information that was used in executing the workflow along with the error messages, if any. The following screenshot shows the workflow log:

The following table describes the various options of the workflow log:

Option

Description

Severity

It shows the status of the particular event that took place while executing the workflow.

INFO indicates general system-level information.

ERROR indicates the error that has occurred due to which the Workflow failed.

WARNING indicates the process that was not executed as per expectation. The workflow may not fail because of the warning.

Timestamp

This indicates the exact timing of the particular step that the workflow was running.

Node

This indicates the name of...