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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

Repository Manager - the client configuration


This is our first look at the client tools, and before we can start working on them, we need to configure the client tools with the server components:

  1. To complete the configuration, open the Repository Manager. To open the Repository Manager screen, go to Start | All Programs | Informatica 10.1.0 | Client | PowerCenter Client | PowerCenter Repository Manager:
  1. The Repository Manager screen will open, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click on OK.

  1. To configure the domain and repository with Repository Manager, navigate to Repository | Configure Domains:
  1. In the next pop-up window, provide the details for configuring the domain.
    • Click on Add a new domain, and specify the following details:
    • Domain name: Domain
    • Gateway Hostname: node1
    • Gateway Port number: 6005

Note that you need to define these values based on the domain and node configuration you did in the Informatica Administration Console.

Click on OK.

  1. Once you specify the details, a new domain and the...