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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
Book Image

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

Adding a task to the workflow


Once you have created a workflow, you can add multiple tasks to the workflow. You can directly add the tasks by creating them in Workflow Manager or you can create them in Task Developer and use them in the workflow.

Adding tasks to the workflow directly

To add a task to the workflow, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Workflow Manager, navigate to Tasks | Create:
  2. Select the type of task from the drop-down list that you wish to add to the workflow and specify the name of the task. The selected task will appear on the screen. Read the naming convention. For our reference, we are creating a Session task. The name of the Session task should be s_mappingname. Click on OK:

Note that we will discuss in detail about all the tasks in the next chapter.

  1. If you create a Session task, another window will pop up, asking you to select the mapping that you wish to associate in Session. The window displays a list of all the valid mappings present in you repository. Select the...