PowerCenter® Getting Started is written for the developers and software engineers who are responsible for implementing a data warehouse. It provides a tutorial to help first-time users learn how to use PowerCenter. PowerCenter Getting Started assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the …
The Informatica Glossary is written for Informatica users. It contains terminology for Informatica products that you can use with Informatica Administrator, Informatica Analyst, and Informatica Developer.
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 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 …
The PowerCenter® Advanced Workflow 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 …
The Informatica Analyst Tool Guide describes how to use Informatica Analyst (the Analyst tool) to discover and define business logic and collaborate on business projects in an enterprise. It is written for business users such as analysts and data stewards who collaborate on projects within an organization. This guide assumes that you have …
The PowerCenter® Designer Guide is written for developers and software engineers responsible for implementing a data warehouse. The PowerCenter Designer Guide assumes that you have a solid understanding of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and database engines, flat files, or mainframe system in your environment. …
The PowerCenter® Mapping Analyst for Excel Guide is written for business analysts who want to use Microsoft Excel to develop PowerCenter mappings. It is also written for PowerCenter developers who want to use the Microsoft Excel files to begin developing PowerCenter mappings. This book assumes you have a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
The PowerCenter® Mapping Architect for Visio Guide is written for developers and architects responsible for designing PowerCenter mappings. The PowerCenter Mapping Architect for Visio Guide assumes that you have a solid understanding of PowerCenter and data integration concepts. This guide also assumes that you are familiar with Microsoft Office Visio.
The PowerCenter® Performance Tuning Guide is written for PowerCenter administrators and developers, network administrators, and database administrators who are interested in improving PowerCenter performance. This guide assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, networks, PowerCenter, relational database concepts, and flat …
PowerCenter Repository Reports
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 PowerCenter® Repository Guide is written for database administrators and developers who manage repositories. This guide assumes you have knowledge of relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment. You should also be familiar with the interface requirements of your …
The PowerCenter® Transformation Guide is written for the developers and software engineers responsible for implementing your data warehouse. The PowerCenter Transformation Guide assumes that you have a solid understanding of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe system …
The PowerCenter Transformation Language Reference is written for the developers who are responsible for building mappings. The PowerCenter Transformation Language Reference assumes you have knowledge of SQL, relational database concepts, and the interface requirements for your supporting applications.
The PowerCenter® Web Services Provider Guide provides information about the Web Services Provider and the PowerCenter web services hosted by the Web Services Hub. This guide also provides information about how to turn PowerCenter workflows into web services and examples for how to create client applications that use the web services …
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. …
The XML Guide is written for developers and software engineers responsible for working with XML in a data warehouse environment. Before you use the XML Guide, ensure that you have a solid understanding of XML concepts, your operating systems, flat files, or mainframe system in your environment. Also, ensure that you are familiar with the …
The Informatica Administrator Guide is written for Informatica domain administrators and operators. It contains information that you need to configure, manage and monitor the domain. The Administrator Guide assumes that you have basic working knowledge of the Informatica domain and services.
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 Security Guide contains information about security in the Informatica domain. It contains information that you need to manage security for the Informatica domain and the Informatica clients that connect to the domain. This book assumes that you have knowledge of the Informatica domain and the Informatica Administrator. It also …
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 Developer Tool Guide is written for big data, data services, and data quality developers. This guide describes common functionality in the Developer tool. This guide assumes that you have an understanding of flat file and relational database concepts, and the database engines in your environment.
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, …
This document contains important information about restricted functionality, known limitations, and bug fixes for Informatica 10.1.1.
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 …
This article provides best practices for migrating, configuring, and using Business Glossary.
This article lists the Business Glossary user guides and how-to articles available for data stewards, administrators, and Glossary consumers.
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.
To use the SSL protocol for a secure connection to the Administrator tool, create a keystore file and configure an HTTPS port for each gateway node in the domain. The keystore file can include a self-signed certificate or a certificate signed by a certificate authority. This article describes how to create and use a certificate signed by a …
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).
You can enable secure communication with SSL encryption from PowerCenter to Microsoft SQL Server. When you use an ODBC provider type in the Microsoft SQL Server connection, you must enable DSN to set the SSL encryption. This article describes how you can configure secure communication from PowerCenter to Microsoft SQL Server with a …
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 ODBC connection to connect to MongoDB from the Developer Tool or PowerCenter. This article explains how to configure an ODBC connection for MongoDB in the Developer Tool or PowerCenter.
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 Oracle Connection Manager to connect to an Oracle database from PowerCenter®. This article discusses the tasks that you must perform to configure connectivity to Oracle using Oracle Connection Manager from the PowerCenter Client.
Use the Data Processor transformation to process an XML source with one format and produce an XML output in another format. The Data Processor transformation uses an XMap to transform an XML hierarchy into a different XML hierarchy. This article describes how to create and configure a Data Processor transformation with an XMap to …
To maximize the benefits that Data Validation Option offers, you must understand how to best set up Data Validation Option in a customer environment and know the best practices for using Data Validation Option.
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.
This deployment reference provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Informatica® PowerCenter on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Marketplace. Automated reference deployments use AWS CloudFormation templates to launch, configure, and run the AWS compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a specific workload on AWS.
The automated marketplace solution uses Google Cloud Platform templates to launch, configure, and run the Google Cloud compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a specific workload on Google Cloud. This deployment reference provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Informatica PowerCenter on Google Cloud …
The automated marketplace solution uses Azure Resource Manager to launch, configure, and run the Azure virtual machine, virtual network, and other services required to deploy a specific workload on Azure. This deployment reference provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Informatica PowerCenter on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
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.
Informatica supports connectivity to an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) for the domain, Model Repository Service, and PowerCenter Repository Service. Informatica services can connect to Oracle RAC configured in Connect Time Connection Failover (CTCF) or Fast Connection Failover (FCF) mode. Effective in version 10.1.1, you can use …
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 connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database with Kerberos authentication from PowerCenter. This article describes how you can configure a connection to a Microsoft SQL Server database that uses Kerberos authentication in Informatica 10.x.
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.
Informatica provides the Informatica container utility to install the Informatica domain quickly. This article describes how to install PowerCenter from the Docker image through the Informatica container utility on Docker.
Informatica provides the Informatica container utility to install the Informatica domain quickly. This article describes how to install PowerCenter from the Docker image through the Informatica container utility on Kubernetes.
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 push transformation logic to the database to improve mapping performance. A common use case is full pushdown optimization where the Integration Service attempts to push all transformation logic to the target database. This article describes how to configure full pushdown optimization in PowerCenter.
You can use PowerExchange, PowerCenter, and Test Data Management (TDM) to perform data masking and data subset with IMS unload file sources on z/OS. This article describes the procedures for installing and configuring PowerExchange and performing data masking and data subset with these sources.
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 …
A partition is a pipeline stage that executes in a single reader, transformation, or writer thread. You can configure multiple partitions for a single pipeline stage. This article explains how to increase performance in sessions that use partitions.
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 10.0.
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.
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.
You can migrate the domain configuration repository, PowerCenter repository, Metadata Manager repository, or Data Analyzer repository to another supported database.
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 …
The PowerCenter repository grows over time as you run new jobs on the development and production environments. The PowerCenter administrator must perform certain maintenance tasks on the database that hosts the repository to maintain the size of the database for optimal performance. This article provides information for the PowerCenter …
This article explains how to read data from SAP HANA modelling views using PowerCenter.
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.
When an Informatica domain contains multiple nodes, you can configure PowerCenter workflows to run on a grid. When you run a workflow on a grid, the PowerCenter Integration Service runs a service process on each available node of the grid to increase performance and scalability. The service distributes workflow tasks across the nodes …
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.
This article is intended to provide you general reference guidelines to help you tune the performance of Metadata Manager. The results listed in this article are based on observations in an internal Informatica environment using data from real-world scenarios. The performance of Metadata Manager might vary based on individual environments …
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 …
When you use groups and roles to organize Informatica access control, you simplify user management and create a more secure environment. This article describes how to identify groups and roles and examines the benefits of using groups and roles.
You can use the general session parameter, $ParamName, to define a parameter for a general session property. This article describes how to add a general session parameter to a session, create a parameter file to define the value of the parameter, and configure the parameter file name and location.
You can use PowerCenter to process a large number of flat files daily in real time or near real time. Based on the source data, you can run a session that processes multiple flat files at scheduled intervals. Or, you can run a single real-time session that processes flat files continuously. This article presents multiple real-time or near …
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.
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.
Released November 2017
Updated June 2018
