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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By : Rahul Malewar
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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By: Rahul Malewar

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Starting the Development Phase – Using the Designer Screen Basics
Starting the Development Phase – Using the Designer Screen Basics
Informatica PowerCenter Designer
The Designer screen's components
Summary
2
Using the Designer Screen – Advanced
Using the Designer Screen – Advanced
Debug me please – the debugger
Reuse me please – reusable transformation
Managing constraints – the target load plan
I hate hardcoding – parameters and variables
Comparing objects
Summary
3
Implementing SCD – Using Designer Screen Wizards
Implementing SCD – Using Designer Screen Wizards
SCD1 – I hate history!
SCD2 (version number) – I need my ancestors!
SCD2 (flag) – flag the history
SCD2 (date range) – marking the dates
SCD3 – store something, if not everything!
Summary
4
Finishing the Development – Using the Workflow Manager Screen Basics
Finishing the Development – Using the Workflow Manager Screen Basics
Using Workflow Manager
Creating a workflow
Adding tasks in a workflow
Working with the session task – basic properties
Connecting the tasks – links
Assigning Integration Service to a workflow
Deleting a workflow
Trigger – starting a workflow
Working with connection objects
Summary
5
Using the Workflow Manager Screen – Advanced
Using the Workflow Manager Screen – Advanced
Working with tasks
Configuring a task
The session task
The command task
The e-mail task
The assignment task
The timer task
The control task
The decision task
Event tasks – event wait and event raise
The link task
Worklets – groups of tasks
Schedulers
File List – the indirect way
Incremental aggregation
The parameter file – parameters and variables
Summary
6
Monitoring Your Code – Using the Workflow Monitor Screen
Monitoring Your Code – Using the Workflow Monitor Screen
Using Workflow Monitor
Connecting to the Workflow Manager screen
Opening previous workflow runs
Running or recovering workflows or tasks
Stopping or aborting the workflow or task
The status of workflows and tasks
Viewing the session log and workflow log
Working with the workflow log
Working with the session log
Viewing workflow run properties
Viewing session run properties
Common errors
Summary
7
The Lifeline of Informatica – Transformations
The Lifeline of Informatica – Transformations
Creating the transformation
The Expression transformation
Ports in transformations
Using the expression editor
The Aggregator transformation
The Sorter transformation
The Filter transformation
The Router transformation
The Rank transformation
The Sequence Generator transformation
The Joiner transformation
Union transformation
Source Qualifier transformation
Classification of transformations
The Lookup transformation
The Update Strategy transformation
The Normalizer transformation
The Stored Procedure transformation
Transaction Control transformations
Types of lookup cache
Tracing levels
Summary
8
The Deployment Phase – Using Repository Manager
The Deployment Phase – Using Repository Manager
Using Repository Manager
Configuring the client tools
Take me to next stage – deployment or migration
Summary
9
Optimization – Performance Tuning
Optimization – Performance Tuning
Bottlenecks
Working on partitioning
Pushdown optimization
Summary
Installing Informatica and Using Informatica Administration Console
Installing Informatica and Using Informatica Administration Console
The Informatica architecture
Informatica installation – the prerequisites
Downloading the Informatica PowerCenter software
Extracting the package – opening the installable
Starting the installation
Index
Index

Connecting to the Workflow Manager screen

When you open the Workflow Monitor screen, you need to connect to the repository and Integration Service to view the workflow and task status. You can view the Workflow Manager Screen through various ways:

  • Under All Programs, navigate to Informatica 9.5.1 | Client | PowerCenter Client | PowerCenter Workflow Monitor

  • From the Designer or Workflow Manager screen, click on the icon that represents Workflow Monitor (M)

Once you open the Workflow Monitor screen, perform the following steps to connect and view the workflow and task status:

  1. Open the Workflow Monitor screen.

  2. Right-click on the repository you wish to connect to (if you have multiple repositories available), and connect to it using the username and password. In our case, the repository is REPO.

  3. Once you connect to the repository, the next step is to connect to Integration Service. This is done by right-clicking on the Integration Service you created. In our case, the Integration Service is INTE...

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