Event is simply a functionality that you wish to implement in Workflow. Informatica Power Center has some system-defined events, and you can define user-defined events also.
There are two types of events:
- Event Wait task: This is the task that waits for a particular event to occur. You can define the event for which the Event Wait task should wait. Once triggered, the Event Wait task will wait for an infinite duration of time for the specified event. As soon the event occurs, the event wait succeeds and triggers the next task in the workflow.
- In the event wait task, you can define system-defined event (pre-defined event) or user-defined event.
- Event Raise task: As against event wait, an event raise task triggers a particular event in the workflow.
- You can define only user-defined events in the event raise task.
Informatica PowerCenter events can be of two types:
- Predefined Event: This is also referred to as system-defined event. It is generally called...