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Configure Informatica Environment Variables

You can configure the INFA_DOMAINS_FILE and INFA_HOME environment variables to store the domain and installation location settings.

INFA_DOMAINS_FILE: The installer creates a domains.infa file in the Informatica installation directory. The domains.infa file contains the connectivity information for the gateway nodes in a domain, including the domain names, domain host names, and domain host port numbers.

Set the value of the INFA_DOMAINS_FILE variable to the path and file name of the domains.infa file.

Configure the INFA_DOMAINS_FILE variable on the machine where you install the Informatica services. On Windows, configure INFA_DOMAINS_FILE as a system variable.
INFA_HOME: Use INFA_HOME to designate the Informatica installation directory. If you modify the Informatica directory structure, you need to set the environment variable to the location of the Informatica installation directory or the directory where the installed Informatica files are located.

For example, you use a softlink for any of the Informatica directories. To configure INFA_HOME so that any Informatica application or service can locate the other Informatica components it needs to run, set INFA_HOME to the location of the Informatica installation directory.