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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

Ports in transformations


The transformations receive the data from the input ports and send the data out using the output ports. Variable ports temporarily store the value while processing the data.

Every transformation with a few exceptions has input and output ports as shown in the following screenshot:

Double-click on the transformation, and click on Ports to open the edit view to see the input, output, and variable ports:

You can disable or enable input or output ports based on the requirement. In our scenario, we need to use the values coming from input port and send it by the output port using concatenate by writing the function in the expression editor.

Create two new output ports for FULL_NAME after LAST_NAME and TOTAL_SALARY after FEB_SALARY. To add new ports, double-click on the expression transformation, click on Ports, and add two new output ports as shown in the following screenshot:

Make sure you define proper data type and size of the new ports added. As you can notice, we have...