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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

The Administration Console - configuration


The Informatica administration home page is the single place where all Informatica components can be created and configured. The Administration Console home page opens in the web browser. It does not require an internet connection. You can use any browser to open the admin console. You might need to check the browser settings if the administrator home page will not open. Based on your system configuration and settings, you might need to try using a different browser.

Perform the following steps to configure the Informatica components:

  1. Informatica Administrator Home Page can be located under All Programs in your Start menu.
  2. Navigate to Start | All Programs | Informatica 10.1.0 | Server | Informatica Administrator Home Page:

This will open Informatica Administrator in your default web browser.

  1. Log in to the Informatica Administrator using the username and password that you defined when creating the domain.

In this book, we are using the default username...