The Data Validation Client is primarily designed with a single-installation, single-environment usage in mind. Since most customers have multiple environments in which they want to run tests, user desktops need to be configured to support these multiple environments.

When a user installs the Data Validation Client onto their machine, a

DataValidator

directory is created under their Window's user area. In Windows 7, this is typically located in

C:\Users\<username>

For example

C:\Users\<username>\DataValidator

, as shown in the following image:

For the Data Validation Client to access multiple Data Validation Option repositories, the preference file that is associated with the Data Validation Option environment needs to be provided when the Data Validation Client is started. So, under this directory, there should be a subdirectory for each environment a user would need access to.

The image below shows a sample subdirectory:

To start Data Validation Option properly, a shortcut to

Data Validation Client.exe

should be created for each environment.

The following image shows a sample shortcut:

This shortcut should run

Data Validation Client.exe

and pass in the directory associated with the environment that needs to be accessed. In this directory, Data Validation Option would create a preference file and support directories that it needs to function properly.

A sample shortcut and path is:

"C:\Program Files\Informatica9.500\Data Validation Option \Data Validation Client.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\DataValidator\Data Validation Option _QA"