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Read the Informatica® New Features and Enhancements Guide to learn about the new features and enhancements in Informatica products for this release.
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 traditional products.
Read the Informatica® Release Notes to learn about known limitations and fixes associated with version 10.4.1. The Release Notes also include information about upgrade paths, EBFs, and limited support, such as technical preview or deferments.
This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known limitations, and bug fixes in Informatica version 10.4.1.1. Informatica 10.4.1.1 is a service pack that contains multiple emergency bug fixes. The service pack supports Informatica Data Quality and all Data Engineering, Data Security, and Data Catalog products. The …
This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known issues, and bug fixes in Informatica version 10.4.1.2. Informatica 10.4.1.2 is a service pack that contains multiple emergency bug fixes. The service pack supports Informatica Data Quality and all Data Engineering, Data Security, and Data Catalog products. The …
This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known issues, and bug fixes in Informatica version 10.4.1.3. Informatica 10.4.1.3 is a service pack that contains multiple emergency bug fixes. The service pack supports Informatica Data Quality and all Data Engineering, Data Security, and Data Catalog products. The …
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.
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.
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 and how …
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.
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.
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.
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 functionality …
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. 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. …
Additional Content
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 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.
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.
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).
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 10.2.x domain using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
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 10.4.1 domain using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2.0 and the Citrix NetScaler 13.0 identity provider.
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 …
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.
When you upgrade the Informatica domain, you can migrate the domain configuration repository to a different database. You might need to migrate the repository if the database type or version is no longer supported, if your organization requires all departments to use another database type, or if you want to use a secure database. This …
Informatica 10.1 contains various improvements and enhancements to the Informatica domain. Informatica provides a list of supported upgrade paths for users who want to upgrade their product. This article describes the supported upgrade paths to upgrade to Informatica 10.1.
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.
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, …
When you upgrade an Informatica domain, you can migrate one or more installations to a different machine. You might need to migrate an installation if the operating system on the current machine is no longer supported. This article explains how to migrate an installation to a machine with a supported operating system, and how to upgrade the migrated node.
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.
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.
Released October 2020
Updated March 2021
