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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

Trigger - starting a workflow


Before you start a workflow, make sure that the workflow is valid. Note that you can either make a complete workflow to execute or a part of theworkflow.

Running a complete workflow

To run Workflow Manager, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Workflow Manager, open the workflow that you wish to execute in the Workspace.
  2. Click on Workflows | Start Workflow:

The workflow will start the execution and the status can be checked in Workflow Manager.

Running a part of the workflow

If you wish to execute only a part of the workflow, select the task from which you wish to execute the workflow. Right-click on the task and click onStart Workflow From Task, as shown in the following screenshot:

Running a task

Apart from the running workflow, Informatica PowerCenter allows you to run only a particular task. This feature is specifically important when you are in the development phase of your project and you wish to check each component before running the complete workflow. To run...