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  • PowerExchange for CDC and Mainframe 10.5.8
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  1. Preface
  2. PowerExchange Installation and Upgrade Overview
  3. Installation Planning
  4. Upgrade Planning
  5. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on IBM i
  6. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on Linux and UNIX
  7. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on Windows
  8. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on z/OS
  9. Appendix A: Upgrade Considerations
  10. Appendix B: PowerExchange Environment
  11. Appendix C: Manual Installation on IBM i

Installation and Upgrade Guide

Installation and Upgrade Guide

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ODBC Considerations

ODBC Considerations

Determine whether you need to install PowerExchange Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers. You must install these drivers after you install PowerExchange if you plan to use ODBC to access PowerExchange from another Informatica product, such as PowerCenter or Data Archive.
To integrate PowerCenter with PowerExchange, Informatica recommends that you use the PowerExchange Client for PowerCenter (PWXPC) instead of PowerExchange ODBC. PWXPC offers additional functionality. For more information, see
PowerExchange Interfaces for PowerCenter
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The PowerExchange installation delivers 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the following thin ODBC drivers:
  • Informatica PowerExchange Unicode driver
    . Use this driver to retrieve metadata that contains multibyte characters.
  • Informatica PowerExchange driver
    . Use this driver to access data sources.
Install PowerExchange ODBC drivers on the following machines:
  • If you use ODBC to import metadata into the PowerCenter Designer (a 32-bit application) or preview data in PowerCenter, install the 32-bit PowerExchange ODBC drivers on the PowerCenter Client machine.
  • If you run workflows that use ODBC, install the 64-bit PowerExchange ODBC drivers on the PowerCenter Integration Service or Data Integration Service machine.
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