Common Content for Data Engineering

This content is shared by multiple products within the Data Engineering product family. Visit the product pages to see content that is specific to each product.

New Features Guide

Read the Informatica® New Features and Enhancements Guide to learn about the new features and enhancements in Informatica products for this release.

Release Guide

See the Informatica® Release Guide to learn about new features and enhancements for current and recent product releases. Learn about behavior changes between versions and tasks you might need to perform after you upgrade from a previous version. The Release Guide includes content for Data Engineering products and …

Release Guide (10.4.0.1)

Release Notes

Read the Informatica® Release Notes to learn about known limitations and fixes associated with version 10.4.0. The Release Notes also include information about upgrade paths, EBFs, and limited support, such as technical preview or deferments.

Release Notes (10.4.0.1)

This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known limitations, and bug fixes in Informatica 10.4.0.1. Informatica 10.4.0.1 is a service pack that contains multiple emergency bug fixes. The service pack supports Informatica Data Quality and all Data Engineering and Data Catalog products. The service pack is …

Release Notes (10.4.0.2)

This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known limitations, and bug fixes in Informatica version 10.4.0.2. Informatica 10.4.0.2 is a service pack that contains multiple emergency bug fixes. The service pack supports Informatica Data Quality and all Data Engineering and Data Catalog products. The service pack …

Getting Started

Glossary

Refer to the Informatica® Glossary to learn about the terminology for Informatica products that you can use with Informatica Administrator, Informatica Analyst, and Informatica Developer.

Profiling Getting Started Guide

Follow the instructions in the Profiling Getting Started Guide to learn how to create and run profiles in the Developer tool and Analyst tool. The guide provides a tutorial to help first-time users learn how to use Informatica Developer and Informatica Analyst. The guide is written for data analysts and developers.

Help for Users

Analyst Tool Guide

Use the Informatica® Analyst Tool Guide to learn how to discover, define, and review the business logic within Informatica Analyst (the Analyst tool). Learn about the different workspaces where you can manage assets or use assets to support business operations.

Data Discovery Guide

Use the Informatica Data Discovery Guide to learn how to create and run profiles to analyze the content, quality, and structure of data sources. Learn how you can perform data discovery to discover the metadata of source systems that include relationships between columns in one or more data sources. You can use the Developer tool and …

Developer Mapping Guide

Use the Informatica Developer Mapping Guide to learn how to develop, run, and administer mappings. Understand mapping concepts, how to create flexibility through mapping parameters and dynamic mappings, and how to optimize mappings through tuning and partitioning.

Developer Tool Guide

Use the Informatica® Developer Tool Guide to learn about the user interface in the Developer tool. Learn how to connect to a Model repository, create connections and data objects, and deploy applications.

Developer Transformation Guide

Use the Informatica® Developer Transformation Guide to learn about the configuration, guidelines, usage, and run-time behavior of Informatica transformations. Understand how to use transformations in appropriate use cases depending on the environment and run-time engine. View the support for each transformation depending on where …

Developer Workflow Guide

Use the Informatica® Developer Workflow Guide to learn how to create, run, and administer workflows. Understand workflow concepts so you can run mappings and other tasks in a single operation. Learn how to recover a workflow if it is interrupted or if an error occurs.

Performance Tuning Guide

See the Informatica® Performance Tuning Guide to learn how to optimize mapping performance. Understand how to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks within each mapping component.

Profile Guide

Use the Informatica Profile Guide to learn how you can use profile to analyze the content and structure of data sources. You can determine the characteristics of source data in columns, such as value frequency, percentages, and patterns. The guide is written for data analysts and developers.

Reference Data Guide

Read the Informatica Reference Data Guide to learn about the reference data objects and files that you can use in Informatica Developer and Informatica Analyst. You can use reference data to identify, analyze, enhance, or remove values in your source data based on your business needs.

Web Services Guide

Read the Informatica® Web Services Guide to learn how to connect a web service client to an Informatica web service to access, transform, or deliver data. Learn how to create web services to access or update data or perform other tasks, using a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or Representational State Transfer (REST) messaging protocol.

Help for Administrators

Administrator Guide

Use the Informatica® Administrator Guide to learn how to log into the Administrator tool and understand the user interface. Read on how to configure, manage, and monitor the Informatica domain. Learn about domain architecture and its components, including nodes, services, high availability, connections, and monitoring.

Application Service Guide

Use the Informatica Application Service Guide to understand the application services in the Informatica domain, and learn how to manage each service. You can also learn about application service management concepts and tasks including configuration, processing behavior, architecture, and performance tuning.

Security Guide

Use the Informatica Security Guide to learn how to enable security in an Informatica domain. Understand how to configure and manage various authentication protocols, including Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Kerberos, and Security Assertion Markup Language. Learn how to manage users and groups, and how to use permissions, …

Reference Material

Command Reference

Refer to the Informatica® Command Reference for information about the command line programs and utilities, such as infacmd, infasetup, pmcmd, pmpasswd, and pmrep to manage the Informatica domain, application services, and objects. Learn command descriptions, options, and arguments. You can perform much of the command line …

Database View Reference

Refer to the Informatica® Database View Reference for information about the views in the Model repository, profiling warehouse, and Business Glossary. Views for each database are grouped into tables that contain their columns, data types, and descriptions of their columns.

Message Reference

Refer to the Informatica® Message Reference to understand run-time errors that you see in logs and learn what actions you can take based on the error. Error messages in this reference are grouped by message code.

Transformation Language Reference

Refer to the Informatica® Developer Transformation Language Reference to understand transformation language in the Developer tool. Learn how you can use constants, operators, variables, dates, and functions to transform source data.

Installation and Upgrade

Content Guide

Read the Informatica Content Guide to learn about the types of content that you can download and install in the Informatica domain. Informatica uses the term content to refer to prebuilt data quality rules and reference data. Informatica releases prebuilt rules in accelerator packages that are designed for individual countries or business …

Installation for Data Engineering

Follow the instructions in the Informatica Installation for Data Engineering guide to install the Data Engineering products. In addition to install steps, the guide also includes pre- and post-requisite tasks. Review the installation guide to install the Informatica services and clients for the Informatica domain. Verify the database …

Upgrading from Version 10.0 (10.4.0)

Follow the instructions in this upgrade guide to upgrade the product. In addition to upgrade steps, the guide also includes pre- and post-requisite tasks. This guide is written for the system administrator who is responsible for upgrading the product. Review the upgrade guide to upgrade the services and clients for the Informatica domain. …

Upgrading from Version 10.1 (10.4.0)

Upgrading from Version 10.1.1 (10.4.0)

Upgrading from Version 10.1.1 (10.4.1)

Upgrading from Version 10.2 (10.4.0)

Upgrading from Version 10.2.1 (10.4.0)

Upgrading from Version 10.2.2 (10.4.0)

Introduction to the Python Transformation

Watch an introduction to the Python transformation and learn how to use it to solve a classic Titanic use case.

Installing Python for the Python Transformation on Hadoop

Learn how to install Python on a Data Integration Service machine so that the Spark engine can run Python transformations for Data Engineering products.

Configuring a Databricks Cluster to Run Python Transformations

Learn how to configure a Databricks cluster to run Python transformations.

Running the Python Transformation on an Azure Databricks Cluster

Learn how to run a Python transformation on an Azure Databricks cluster.

Configuring Git Version Control for Model Repository Service in 10.2 HotFix 1

You can integrate a Model repository with a Perforce, Subversion, or Git version control system. This article discusses how to integrate a Git system with a Model Repository Service in 10.2 HotFix 1.

Creating a Parameter File for Informatica Developer

A parameter file is an .xml file that lists user-defined parameters and their assigned values. Parameter files provide the flexibility to change parameter values each time that you run a mapping or a workflow. Generate a parameter file based on a mapping or workflow using the Developer tool or the command line. Edit the contents of the file …

Creating a REST Web Service in the Informatica Developer Tool

You can create an Informatica REST web service that returns data to a web service client in JSON or XML format. The article explains how to define a REST web service in the Developer tool. The REST web service runs a mapping that returns hierarchical data in JSON format to a web service client browser.

Enabling SAML Authentication with NetScaler for Web Applications

You can enable users to log into Informatica web applications using single sign-on. This article explains how to configure single sign-on in an Informatica domain using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2.0 and the Citrix NetScaler 13.0 identity provider.

How to Create Ephemeral Clusters with Data Engineering 10.4.1

You can use a workflow to automate the creation of a cluster on supported cloud platforms. The workflow creates a cluster and runs mappings and other workflow tasks. When you include a Delete Cluster task, so that the cluster terminates when workflow tasks are complete, the cluster is known as an ephemeral cluster.

How to Migrate Microsoft SQL Server Connections from the OLE DB to the ODBC Provider Type

When you create a Microsoft SQL Server connection, you can use the OLE DB or ODBC provider types. If required, you can migrate the OLE DB provider type to the ODBC provider type. This article explains how to migrate Microsoft SQL Server connections from the OLE DB provider type to the ODBC provider type.

Using Operating System Profiles in a Hadoop Environment

An operating system profile is a type of security that the Data Integration Service uses to run mappings. You can define an operating system profile as a user to run mappings. Use operating system profiles to increase security and to isolate the run-time environment for users.

Using the SQL Transformation in an Informatica Developer Mapping

You can run SQL queries against a relational database midstream in a mapping. This article describes how to configure an SQL transformation in a logical data object mapping in the Developer tool.

Integrate

Implementing Big Data Management 10.2 with Ephemeral Clusters in a MS Azure Cloud Environment

You can take advantage of cloud computing efficiencies and power by deploying the Informatica Big Data Management solution in the Microsoft Azure environment. You can use a hybrid solution to offload or extend on-premises applications to the cloud. You can also use a lift-and-shift strategy to move an existing on-premises big data solution …

Install Python for the Python transformation on Hadoop

Follow the steps to install Python on each Data Integration Service machine so that the Spark engine can run the Python transformation. This article uses Python 3.6.5 on Cloudera CDH 6.1, but you can follow similar steps for other Python and Hadoop distributions such as Amazon EMR.

Optimize and Tune

Improving the Performance of the Model Repository

The Model repository is a relational database that contains metadata about connections, applications and workflows, transformations and functions, and other objects. You can perform several tasks to improve the performance of the Model repository and its interactions with other Informatica services, and with databases and external clients.

Informatica Developer Tool Naming Conventions

This article provides standardized naming conventions for repository objects. Naming conventions improve readability for anyone reviewing or carrying out maintenance on repository objects. The application and enforcement of naming standards establishes consistency in the repository and creates a developer-friendly environment. In addition, …

Optimizing the Data Integration Service to Process Concurrent Web Services

The Data Integration Service runs concurrent web service requests according to the properties that you configure on the Data Integration Service and the application properties that you configure for each web service object. When you optimize the properties that affect web service concurrency, you can improve performance.

Tuning the Hardware and Hadoop Cluster for Informatica Big Data Products

You can tune the hardware and the Hadoop cluster for better performance of Informatica big data products. This article provides tuning recommendations for Hadoop administrators and system administrators who set up the Hadoop cluster and hardware for Informatica big data products.

Administration

High availability and disaster recovery in a Data Engineering domain

Learn how the Informatica domain and application services in Data Engineering meet disaster recovery and high availability requirements.

Informatica Architecture: Nodes and Domains

The Informatica domain consists of one or more servers, one or more installations of the Informatica software, and at least one relational database. This article is a discussion of how nodes work with the database, communications between nodes, what happens when a node dies, and basic troubleshooting on your domain.

Security

Enabling SAML Authentication in an Informatica 10.2.x Domain

You can enable users to log into Informatica web applications using single sign-on. This article explains how to configure single sign-on in an Informatica 10.2.x domain using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).

Install and Upgrade

10.5 Upgrade Paths

How to Migrate Mappings from the Hive Engine

Effective in version 10.2.2, Informatica dropped support for the Hive engine. You can run mappings on the Blaze and Spark engines in the Hadoop environment or on the Databricks Spark engine in the Databricks environment. This article tells how to change the validation and run-time environments for mappings, and it describes processing …

Additional Articles

Configuring SAML-based Single Sign-on for Informatica 10.1.1 Web Applications

You can enable users to log into the Administrator tool, the Analyst tool and the Monitoring tool using single sign-on. This article explains how to configure single sign-on in an Informatica domain using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).

Tuning the Performance of the Monitoring Model Repository

The monitoring Model repository is a relational database instance. The monitoring Model Repository Service monitors the Data Integration Service jobs, and stores the statistics in the monitoring Model repository. This article discusses the methods that you can use to improve monitoring Model repository performance.

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