Install and configure the Informatica services.

Install and configure the Developer tool. You can install the Developer tool when you install Informatica clients.

Create a Data Integration Service and a Model Repository Service in the Informatica domain.

Verify that a cluster configuration is created in the domain.

Verify that the user used to configure the Informatica domain is added to the cluster and the user has

sudo

privileges when you use non-kerberised Cloudera CDH Hadoop distribution.

Verify that the Hadoop Distribution Directory property in the developerCore.ini file is set based on the Hadoop distribution that you use.

To fetch the metadata at design time for complex files, you must configure the INFA_PARSER_HOME environment variable for the Metadata Access Service in Informatica Administrator. Set the value of the environment variable to the absolute path of the Hadoop distribution directory on the machine that runs the Metadata Access Service.

To run a mapping to process complex files, you must configure the INFA_PARSER_HOME environment variable for the Data Integration Service in Informatica Administrator. Set the value of the environment variable to the absolute path of the Hadoop distribution directory on the machine that runs the Data Integration Service.