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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

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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.
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Timer task


Timer task is used to add time gap between the execution of two tasks. In other words, you can specify the time in the timer task to wait before the process triggers the next task in the workflow. Also, another option in the timer task allows you to start the next task after a particular time gap in the workflow.

The timer task has two types of settings:

  • Absolute Time: This option enables you to specify the time when you want the next task to start in the Workflow.
  • Relative Time: This option enables you to start the next task by comparing the start time of the timer task. If you mention the relative time as 10 minutes, Informatica Power Center will wait for 10 minutes at the timer task before it triggers the next task in the workflow.

Creating a Timer Task

To create a Timer Task in Workflow Manager, follow these steps:

  1. In the Workflow Manager, go to Tasks | Create. From the list of tasks, select Timer Task, and specify the name of the Timer task, tm_TASK_NAME. For our reference, we...
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