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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By : Rahul Malewar
Book Image

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By: Rahul Malewar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tracing levels


Tracing levels in Informatica define the amount of data you wish to write in the session log when you execute the workflow. The tracing level is a very important aspect of Informatica, as it helps in analyzing errors. It is also very helpful in finding the bugs in the process and you can define it in every transformation. The tracing level option is present in every transformation properties window. There are four types of tracing levels available:

  • Normal: When you set the tracing level as Normal, Informatica stores the status information, information about errors, and information about skipped rows. You get detailed information but not at an individual row level.

  • Terse: When you set the tracing level as Terse, Informatica stores the error information and the information of rejected records. Terse tracing level occupies less space than Normal.

  • Verbose Initialization: When you set the tracing level as Verbose Initialize, it stores the process details related to the startup...