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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

Decision task


You can control the execution of the Workflow by defining the condition in the decision task. Decision task allows you to specify the condition using which you can control the execution of branches in a Workflow. In other words, you can check the condition of multiple tasks and, based on that, decide whether you wish to trigger the next task or not.

Consider the workflow shown in the next screenshot. As you can see, the session task should be triggered only if the status of all the three tasks is successful. We can define the condition in the three link tasks, but the problem in that case will be that the session task will be triggered even if one command task is successful. This issue can be resolved using the decision task. You can define the condition in the decision task that will make the session task execute only if all the three command tasks are successful.

Creating a Decision task

To create a Decision task in Workflow Manager, follow these steps:

  1. In Workflow Manager, go...