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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

Chapter 7. Using the Workflow Manager Screen

In the previous chapters, we have discussed about the Informatica PowerCenter Designer Screen, various transformations, and SCDs. This chapter marks the beginning of another client tool called the Workflow Manager. The Informatica PowerCenter Workflow Manager lets you execute Informatica code. By now, you must be clear that we can create a skeleton of the data flow in mapping, which contains the source to the target flow. The Workflow Manager allows us to execute the mapping; in other words, we actually make the data flow from source to target when we execute a process called Workflow in the Workflow Manager.

Basically, the Workflow Manager contains a set of instructions that we define as Workflow. The basic building blocks of a Workflow are Tasks. As we have multiple transformations in the designer screen, we have multiple tasks in the Workflow Manager screen. When you create a workflow, you add tasks to it as per your requirement and execute...