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Read the Informatica® Release Notes to learn about known limitations and fixes associated with version 10.5.3. The Informatica version 10.5.3 release includes multiple bug fixes and third-party library upgrades to improve security. The Release Notes also include information about upgrade paths, EBFs, and limited support, such as …
See Informatica® What's New and Changed to learn about new functionality and changes for current and recent product releases. You can also read the important notices for information related to support changes, new products, and release tasks that you might need to perform after you upgrade from a previous version. What's New …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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, …
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 …
Follow the instructions in Installation for Data Engineering to install the Data Engineering products. You can install Informatica services and clients on one or more machines. The guide includes pre- and post-requisite tasks and steps to install the Informatica services and clients for the Informatica domain. Prerequisite tasks include …
Follow the instructions in this upgrade guide to upgrade the product. Review the upgrade guide to upgrade the services and clients for the Informatica domain. Verify the database requirements and set up the databases for the domain. You can verify the distributions for the supported products in the native and non-native environments. …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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, …
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.
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.
Learn how the Informatica domain and application services in Data Engineering meet disaster recovery and high availability requirements.
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.
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).
10.5 Upgrade Paths
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 …
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).
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.
Released November 2022
Updated March 2023