The Informatica Application Service Guide is written for Informatica users who need to configure application services. The Informatica Application Service Guide assumes you have basic working knowledge of Informatica and details of the environment in which the application services run.
The Informatica Command Reference is written for Informatica administrators and developers who manage the repositories and administer the domain and services. This guide assumes you have knowledge of the operating systems in your environment. This guide also assumes you are familiar with the interface requirements for the supporting applications.
The Informatica Installation and Configuration Guide is written for the system administrator who is responsible for installing the Informatica product. This guide assumes you have knowledge of operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment. This guide also …
The Informatica Message Reference is written for all Informatica users. This guide contains troubleshooting information for all aspects of data warehouse development, including source analysis, transformation development, mapping development, and running sessions. This guide assumes you have knowledge about your operating systems, …
The Informatica New Features and Enhancements Guide is written for all Informatica software users. This guide lists the new features and enhancements in Informatica products.
The PowerExchange Interfaces for PowerCenter publication describes the Informatica® PowerExchange® Client for PowerCenter (PWXPC) and ODBC interfaces between PowerExchange and PowerCenter®. This publication is intended for developers and administrators who are responsible for creating, running, and administering workflows and sessions …
The Informatica Profile Guide is written for Informatica Analyst and Informatica Developer users. It contains information about how you can use profiles to analyze the content and structure of data. Use column profiles to determine the characteristics of columns, such as value frequency, percentages, and patterns, in a data source.
The Informatica Release Guide lists new features and enhancements, behavior changes between versions, and tasks you might need to perform after you upgrade from a previous version. The Informatica Release Guide is written for all types of users who are interested in the new features and changed behavior. This guide assumes that you …
This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known limitations, and bug fixes for Informatica 10.1.1.
This document contains important information about emergency bug fixes in Informatica 10.1.1 HotFix 2 Service Pack 1. The service pack supports traditional Informatica products only, such as PowerCenter and Data Quality. You cannot apply the service pack to a domain that runs big data products. Big data products include Big Data Management, …
Upgrading from Version 10.0 is written for the system administrator who is responsible for upgrading the Informatica product. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment. This guide also assumes that you are …
Upgrading from Version 10.1 is written for the system administrator who is responsible for upgrading the Informatica product. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment. This guide also assumes that you are …
Upgrading from Version 9.5.1 is written for the system administrator who is responsible for upgrading the Informatica product. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment. This guide also assumes that you are …
Upgrading from Version 9.6.1 is written for the system administrator who is responsible for upgrading the Informatica product. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment. This guide also assumes that you are …
The PowerCenter® Workflow Basics Guide is written for developers and administrators who are responsible for creating workflows and sessions, and running workflows. This guide assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files or mainframe system in your environment. …
You can connect to an SAP HANA database by using ODBC. This article explains how to configure an OBDC connection for SAP HANA in PowerCenter, the Administrator tool, the Developer tool, and the Analyst tool.
When you run ABAP mappings in PowerCenter to read data from SAP tables, you can configure HTTP streaming. HTTP stream mode sessions use background processing. This article describes how to configure HTTP streaming for ABAP table reader mappings in PowerCenter.
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol that provides strong authentication between users and services in a network. This article explains how you can configure clients and services within an Informatica domain to use Kerberos authentication.
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).
This article describes how to set up an SFTP workflow connection in PowerCenter and configure the SFTP connection properties to achieve secure transfer of files and protection against attacks such as IP spoofing, IP source routing, and DNS spoofing.
You can configure an Oracle connection to connect to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (Oracle ADWC) from Informatica® Developer or PowerCenter®. This article describes how to configure connectivity to Oracle ADWC.
You can configure an Oracle connection to connect to Oracle Database Cloud Service from Informatica® Developer or PowerCenter®. This article describes how to configure connectivity to Oracle Database Cloud Service.
You can use Cloudera Impala to process queries directly on the Apache Hadoop data stored in HDFS or HBase. Data Validation Option contains a graphical user interface to create and run tests on data including Hadoop data. This article describes how you can integrate Data Validation Option with Cloudera Impala.
You can use Hortonworks to process queries directly on the Apache Hadoop data stored in HDFS or HBase. Data Validation Option contains a graphical user interface to create and run tests on data including Hadoop data. This article describes how you can integrate Data Validation Option with Hortonworks.
You can deploy a PowerCenter® installation on AWS ICMP. This article describes how to verify that the PowerCenter installation is correctly deployed in your AWS ICMP infrastructure.
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).
This article shows how to enter the Adabas FDT password when you connect to an Adabas source or target during a PowerCenter batch, Change, or Real-time mode session or run a CAPXRT database row test for an Adabas extraction map.
You can configure Hive ODBC Connector for Cloudera Enterprise with PowerCenter® on Linux. This article describes how to install and configure the connector and also use the connector with the PowerCenter installation deployed in your infrastructure.
You can configure MapR Hive ODBC Connector with PowerCenter® on Linux. This article describes how to install and configure the connector and also use the connector with the PowerCenter installation deployed in your infrastructure.
You can configure PowerCenter on Kubernetes to optimize resource management and to enable load balancing for the Informatica domain within the containerized environment. This article is written for the PowerCenter administrator responsible for configuring PowerCenter 10.2 HotFix 2 on Kubernetes.
You can configure PowerCenter on Kubernetes to optimize resource management and to enable load balancing for the Informatica domain within the containerized environment. This article is written for the PowerCenter administrator responsible for configuring PowerCenter on Kubernetes.
You can use all the features of PowerCenter® on an Azure machine instance. This article describes how to install PowerCenter 10.2 HotFix 1 or 10.2 HotFix 2 with an Azure machine instance.
You can use all the features of PowerCenter® on an Azure machine instance. This article describes how to install PowerCenter with an Azure machine instance.
Informatica provides the Docker utility to install the Infomatica domain quickly. This article describes how to install Informatica using Docker image.
You can use all the features of PowerCenter® on a Google Compute Engine virtual machine instance. This article describes how to install PowerCenter on a Google Compute Engine virtual machine instance. This article assumes that you have basic working knowledge of the Informatica Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Google Compute Engine.
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.
You can use PowerExchange, PowerCenter, and Persistent Data Masking and Data Subset to perform data masking and data subset with sequential or VSAM sources on z/OS. This article describes the procedures for installing and configuring PowerExchange and performing data masking and data subset with these sources.
The PowerCenter repository is a relational database instance managed by the PowerCenter Repository Service. The database stores tables that hold metadata about repository objects, such as mappings and transformations. Over time, PowerCenter repository performance can slow for many reasons. This article describes methods to improve …
Domain and application services ports can either be static ports or dynamic ports. The Informatica domain and domain components are assigned to static ports. Certain application services are also assigned to static ports while others run on dynamic ports.
You can use all the features of an on-premises PowerCenter® installation on an Amazon EC2 instance. This article describes how to install and set up PowerCenter with an Amazon EC2 instance to install Informatica services.
Informatica supports the migration of mappings and mapplets created with the PowerCenter Client to a Model repository. This article explains how you can import objects from a PowerCenter repository into a Model repository. The article also outlines guidelines and restrictions to consider, and notes changes to objects that might occur during migration.
Informatica supports the migration of mappings, mapplets, and logical data object models created in Informatica Developer to PowerCenter. This article explains how you can migrate objects from a Model repository to a PowerCenter repository. The article also outlines guidelines and restrictions to consider, and notes changes to objects that …
You can generate reports with Data Validation Option. This article describes the different reporting options for Data Validation Option. This article also describes how to install and configure a standalone JasperReports Server for the Data Validation client to generate reports.
You can implement a disaster recovery plan for PowerCenter deployments to recover from accidental loss of user data, hardware failures, database corruption, and natural disasters. This article presents some recovery strategies and best practices that you can adopt to recover and protect PowerCenter deployments during a disaster.
Informatica provides a list of supported upgrade paths for users who want to upgrade their Informatica product. This article describes the supported upgrade paths to upgrade to Informatica 10.1.1 and 10.1.1 hotfix releases.
Informatica 10.2 HotFix 2 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 10.2 HotFix 2.
Team-based development is the collaboration of team members on a development project. Both the PowerCenter repository and the Model repository contain team-based development features, such as versioning and the ability to check out and check in objects. The list and method of implementation of team-based development features depends on …
Two-factor authentication (2FA), utilizing smart cards or USB tokens, is a popular network security mechanism. This article explains how two-factor authentication works in an Informatica domain configured to use Kerberos authentication. The information in the article might also be useful when troubleshooting authentication issues.
Updated May 2018
