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Getting Started Guide

The Data Quality Getting Started Guide is written for data quality developers and analysts. It provides tutorials to help first-time users learn how to use Informatica Developer and Informatica Analyst. This guide assumes that you have an understanding of data quality concepts, flat file and relational database concepts, and the database …

Profiling Getting Started Guide

The Informatica Profiling Getting Started Guide is written for data quality and data services developers and analysts. It provides a tutorial to help first-time users learn how to use Informatica Developer and Informatica Analyst. This guide assumes that you have an understanding of data quality concepts, flat file and relational database …

Release Information

Data Quality for Microsoft Excel Release Notes

This document contains important information about installation and known limitations for Data Quality for Microsoft Excel.

Help for Users

Address Validator Port Reference

The Address Validator Port Reference is written for Data Quality users who configure the Address Validator transformation to perform address parsing and validation tasks. The document describes the functionality and usage of each port and the types of information each port can contain. The Address Validator Port Reference lists the ports …

Analyst Tool Guide

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 …

Data Discovery Guide

The Informatica Data Discovery Guide is written for Informatica Analyst and Informatica Developer users. It contains information about how you can use profiles to analyze the content, quality, and structure of data sources and perform data discovery to discover the metadata of source systems that include content and structure. Use profiles …

Data Quality for Microsoft Excel Guide

Read the Data Quality for Microsoft Excel Guide to learn how you can apply data quality rules to data in Microsoft Excel worksheets. The rules perform data quality operations such as parsing, cleansing, and standardization. To apply the rules, you run data quality services through Data Quality for Microsoft Excel.

Developer Mapping Guide

The Informatica Developer Mapping Guide contains information about how to create and use mappings and mapplets, configure dynamic mappings, export and import objects, and to enable performance tuning and pushdown optimization. The Informatica Developer Mapping Guide is written for developers who develop mappings and mapplets, such as big …

Developer Tool Guide

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.

Developer Transformation Guide

The Informatica Developer Transformation Guide contains information about transformation functionality in the Developer tool. It is written for data quality, big data, and data services developers. This guide assumes that you have an understanding of data quality concepts, flat file and relational database concepts, and the database engines in …

Developer Workflow Guide

The Informatica Developer Workflow Guide is written for developers and administrators who are responsible for creating and running workflows. This guide assumes that you have an understanding of flat file and relational database concepts, the database engines in your environment, and data quality concepts. This guide also assumes that you …

Exception Management Guide

The Informatica Exception Management Guide describes how to use Exception Managment in the Analyst tool. Exception Management is an Analyst tool feature that you can use to view and update data quality exception records in a Human task. Exceptions are records that might contain bad data or duplicate data. Use Exception Management to …

Performance Tuning Guide

The Informatica Performance Tuning Guide is written for administrators and developers who are interested in improving performance. This guide assumes you have knowledge of the operating systems, networks, client tools, relational database concepts, and flat files in your environment. For more information about database performance tuning …

Profile Guide

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.

Reference Data Guide

The Informatica Reference Data Guide includes information about the reference data objects and files that you can use in Informatica Developer and Informatica Analyst. It is written for data analysts, data stewards, and others who use reference data to verify and enhance the accuracy and usability of organization data.

Rule Specification Guide

A rule specification represents the data requirements of a business rule in logical form. You define a rule specification in the Design workspace of Informatica Analyst. You generate one or more mapplets from the rule specification that you define. An Informatica Developer user can add the mapplets to a mapping and verify that a data set …

Help for Administrators

Administrator Guide

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.

Application Service Guide

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.

Security Guide

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 …

Reference Material

Command Reference

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.

Message Reference

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, …

Transformation Language Reference

The Informatica Developer Transformation Language Reference is written for the developers who are responsible for building mappings. The Informatica Developer Transformation Language Reference assumes you have knowledge of SQL, relational database concepts, and the interface requirements for your supporting applications.

Installation and Upgrade

Content Guide

The Informatica Content Installation Guide is written for Informatica users who are responsible for installing prebuilt rules and reference data to Informatica Data Quality or to PowerCenter®.

Upgrading from Version 10.0 (10.2 HotFix 1)

The upgrade guide 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 familiar with …

Upgrading from Version 10.1.1 (10.2 HotFix 1)

The upgrade guide 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 familiar with …

Upgrading from Version 10.1 (10.2 HotFix 1)

The upgrade guide 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 familiar with …

Upgrading from Version 9.6.1

The upgrade guide 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 familiar with …

User Guide

PowerCenter® users can work with mappings and reference data objects that they import from a Data Quality environment. The Informatica Data Quality Integration for PowerCenter User Guide is written for the PowerCenter users who run data quality mappings and manage the associated reference data objects.

Accelerators

Data Quality Accelerator Guide

The Informatica Data Quality Accelerator Guide is written for Informatica developers who import and use accelerators. Accelerators are content bundles that address common data quality problems in a country, a region, or an industry. The guide assumes that you have an understanding of data quality concepts such as standardization, parsing, …

Additional Guides

API Guide

The Informatica Business Glossary API Guide is written for developers who write client applications that need to access a business glossary. It contains information you need to include the business glossary in your client application. This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of application programming interfaces.

Business Glossary Getting Started Guide

The Informatica Business Glossary Started Guide is written for data stewards, owners, stakeholders, and Glossary consumers who are responsible for creating and viewing Business Glossary content. It provides a tutorial to help first-time users learn how to use Informatica Business Glossary.

Business Glossary Guide

The Business Glossary Guide is written for administrators, data stewards, business owners, subject matter experts, business users, and business analysts who read and manage a business glossary. It contains information you need to look up content, create, and manage business glossaries and relate the information between glossary content. …

Desktop Guide

Desktop Guide

Installation and Configuration Guide (10.2 HotFix 1)

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 …

Release Notes (10.2 HotFix 1)

This document contains important information about fixed limitations and emergency bug fixes for Informatica 10.2 HotFix 1.

Web Services Guide

The Informatica Web Services Guide is written for data quality and data services developers. This guide assumes that you have an understanding of web services concepts.

Reference Material

Deploy the Informatica® Data Quality Solution on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (10.4.1)

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 Data Quality on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

How to Create Keystore and Truststore Files for Secure Communication in the Informatica Domain

When you enable secure communication for the Informatica domain, you secure the connection between services and between the services and the service managers. For better security, you can provide a custom SSL key and certificate. This article describes how to create keystore and truststore files in PEM and JKS formats with a custom SSL …

Installation and Upgrade

Deploying the Informatica® Data Quality 10.4.0 AWS Marketplace Solution

This deployment reference provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Informatica Data Quality on Amazon Web Services (AWS) from the AWS 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.

Deploying the Informatica® Data Quality 10.4.0 Google Cloud Platform Marketplace Solution

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 Data Quality on Google Cloud …

Deploying the Informatica® Data Quality 10.4.0 Microsoft Azure Marketplace Solution

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 guide provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Informatica Data Quality on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Deploy the Informatica® Data Quality Solution on the AWS Cloud Marketplace (10.4.1)

You can deploy Data Quality on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. This deployment reference includes step-by-step instructions for deploying Data Quality on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. It also includes information on prerequisites, and how to troubleshoot common issues.

Help for Administrators

Optimizing the Data Integration Service to Process Concurrent Web Services

The Data Integration Service runs concurrent web service requests according to the properties that you configure on the Data Integration Service and the application properties that you configure for each web service object. When you optimize the properties that affect web service concurrency, you can improve performance.

Additional Articles

Bulk Edit Published or Rejected Business Terms

This article lists the Business Glossary user guides and how-to articles available for data stewards, administrators, and Glossary consumers.

Business Glossary Best Practices

This article provides best practices for migrating, configuring, and using Business Glossary.

Business Glossary Export File Description

You can export one or more glossaries to an .xlsx file. This article describes the columns in the .xlsx file that contains Business Glossary data. Refer to this article before you edit data in the file that you exported. After you edit the data in the .xlsx file, you can import the file using the Analyst tool.

Calling a Web Service from a Web Service Consumer Transformation in Informatica Developer

In Informatica Developer, you can create a Web Service Consumer transformation that calls a web service from an Informatica Data Services mapping or an Informatica Data Quality mapping. This article describes the steps to create a Web Service Consumer transformation, configure the SOAP messages in the transformation, and connect the …

Clean up the Data Profile Warehouse

When you run a profile or scorecard, the profile and scorecard results are saved in the profile warehouse. You can delete the profile and scorecard results from the Model Repository. The deleted results remain in the profile warehouse and appear in the trend charts. This article discusses how to clean up the orphan profiles and …

Configure an ODBC Connection to SAP HANA

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.

Configuring Auto Curation Parameters to Infer Foreign Keys in Informatica Developer

When you run an enterprise discovery profile in Informatica Developer, you can discover column profile statistics, data domains, primary keys, and foreign keys in a large number of data sources. A large number of keys and relationships might be inferred. You can approve, reject, or reset the inferred data domains, primary keys, or …

Configuring HTTPS for the Administrator Tool Using a Certificate Signed by a Certificate Authority

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 …

Configuring Kerberos Authentication in an Informatica Domain

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.

Configuring SAML-based Single Sign-on for Informatica 10.1.1 Web Applications

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).

Connecting to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud from Informatica Developer 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.

Connecting to Oracle Database Cloud Service from Informatica Developer or PowerCenter

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.

Connect to Oracle Using Oracle Connection Manager from Informatica Developer

You can use Oracle Connection Manager to connect to an Oracle database from Informatica® Developer. This article discusses the tasks that you must perform to configure connectivity to Oracle using Oracle Connection Manager from Informatica Developer.

Creating a Column Profile on a Logical Data Object in Informatica Developer

To identify data quality issues in multiple data sources, you can create an enterprise discovery profile, or you can create a column profile on a logical data object. This article describes how to create and run a column profile on the logical data object in Informatica Developer to identify data quality issues, such as null values, inferred …

Creating a Parameter File for Informatica Developer

A parameter file is an .xml file that lists user-defined parameters and their assigned values. Parameter files provide the flexibility to change parameter values each time that you run a mapping or a workflow. Generate a parameter file based on a mapping or workflow using the Developer tool or the command line. Edit the contents of the file …

Creating a REST Web Service in the Informatica Developer Tool

You can create an Informatica REST web service that returns data to a web service client in JSON or XML format. The article explains how to define a REST web service in the Developer tool. The REST web service runs a mapping that returns hierarchical data in JSON format to a web service client browser.

Creating Column Profiles on Avro and Parquet Data Sources in Informatica Developer

You can discover data on Hadoop by creating and running profiles on the data in Informatica Developer. Running a profile on any data source in the enterprise gives you a good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of its data and metadata. A profile determines the characteristics of columns in a data source, such as value …

Creating Column Profiles on LDAP Data Objects

You can use Informatica Developer to read data from Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory servers. You can create column profiles on the LDAP data sources and view the profile results to find the content, quality, and structure of the data sources. This article is written for database administrators and developers and …

Creating Filters for Profiles and Scorecards Using Informatica Analyst

You can add, edit, or delete filters in a profile. A filter determines the rows that the profile reads at run time. The profile does not process rows that do not meet the filter criteria. When you create a filter for a profile or scorecard, the profile or scorecard runs on the filtered data. This article describes how to create filters for a …

Creating Glossary Content Using Microsoft Excel

You can use Microsoft Excel to create glossary content for business glossaries. The Microsoft Excel file that contains the business glossary data must be in a format that the Analyst tool can import. This article describes how to generate a .xlsx file, edit the file in Microsoft Excel, and import the file to the Analyst tool.

Detecting Outliers in Column Profile Results in Informatica Analyst

When you analyze data in data sources, you might come across data that do not fall within an expected range of values or patterns, such as employee names that do not fall within an expected set of patterns or a Social Security Number that appears multiple times in an Employee database. To identify these anomalies, you can create a column …

Developing a Dynamic Mapping to Manage Metadata Changes in Relational Sources

In the Developer tool, you can develop a dynamic mapping that handles metadata changes in relational sources at run time. This article describes the steps to create a dynamic mapping for relational tables that can have metadata changes and to run the mapping with metadata changes. This article assumes that you are familiar with mapping and …

Developing a Dynamic Mapping to Run Against Different Sources and Targets

In the Developer tool, you can develop a dynamic mapping that reuses the same mapping logic for different sources and targets. This article describes the steps to create a dynamic mapping with a mapping logic that you can run against different sources and write to different targets. This article assumes that you are familiar with mappings …

Enabling SAML Authentication in an Informatica 10.2.x Domain

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).

Informatica 10.0 Supported Upgrade Paths

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.

Informatica Architecture: Nodes and Domains

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.

Informatica Developer Tool Naming Conventions

This article provides standardized naming conventions for repository objects. Naming conventions improve readability for anyone reviewing or carrying out maintenance on repository objects. The application and enforcement of naming standards establishes consistency in the repository and creates a developer-friendly environment. In addition, …

Informatica Port Administration

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.

Installation of Informatica Services on Amazon EC2

This H2L article shows you how to setup an Amazon EC2 instance to install Informatica services and clients. You can use all the features of an on-premise Informatica installation with an Informatica installation on an Amazon EC2 instance.

Joining Model Repository and Profiling Warehouse Database Views

Regulatory reporting might require you to consolidate information available in multiple Model repository views and profiling warehouse views. You can join the views based on your requirements using key columns of the views. You can run a join query on the views to retrieve the required information from the Model and profiling warehouse repositories.

Migrating Mappings and Mapplets from a PowerCenter Repository to a Model Repository

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.

Migrating Objects from a Model Repository to a PowerCenter Repository

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 …

Profiling and Discovery Sizing Guidelines for Version 10.1

The system resource guidelines for profiling and discovery include resource recommendations for the Profiling Service Module, the Data Integration Service, profiling warehouse, and hardware settings for different profile types. This article describes the system resource and performance tuning guidelines for profiling and discovery.

Purging Profile and Scorecard Results from the Profiling Warehouse

When you run a profile or scorecard, the profile and scorecard results are saved in the profiling warehouse. You can delete these results from the profiling warehouse. This article discusses how to purge the profile results and scorecard results from the profiling warehouse.

Reading NVARCHAR and NCHAR Data from SAP Tables with a JDBC Connection in Informatica Developer

You can run a mapping that reads NVARCHAR and NCHAR data from SAP tables with a JDBC connection. Before you can run the mapping, you must configure properties for the Data Integration Service that runs the mapping in Informatica Administrator and configure properties for Informatica Developer (the Developer tool) in the developerCore.ini …

Reading Profiles in Third-Party Applications

Informatica provides database views that you can use to open profile results in third-party reporting tools. This article describes how to configure the database views for the profile statistics you want to read.

Relational Pushdown Optimization Best Practices for Developer Tool Mappings

To improve Developer tool mapping performance, use best practices when you configure mappings and apply relational pushdown optimization. Relational pushdown optimization causes the Data Integration Service to push transformation logic to a database. Pushdown optimization improves mapping performance as the source database can process …

Replicating a Glossary in a Domain

This article describes how a Glossary administrator or data steward can replicate a glossary in an Informatica domain.

Running a Column Profile on JSON and XML Data Sources

When you run a profile on JSON and XML data sources, Informatica Developer treats the files as flat files. This article describes how you can create column profiles on flat file data sources that are in JSON or XML format, and view the profile results for data analysis and development.

Running a Profile on Wide Tables

You might need to perform discovery tasks on a relational data source with wide tables or flat files with a huge number of columns. To optimize the profile run on wide tables, you can configure some of the Data Integration Service parameters specific to Profiling Service Module. You can run a column profile on the relational source. Column …

Supported Upgrade Paths to Informatica 10.1.1

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.

Supported Upgrade Paths to Informatica 10.2

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.

Using Groups and Roles to Manage Informatica Access Control

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.

Using LDAP Authentication in an Informatica Domain

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a software protocol for accessing users and resources on a network. You can configure an Informatica domain to use LDAP to authenticate Informatica application client users.

Using Synchronization in Profiling

You can synchronize the changes in the external data source to the data object in the Model Repository after you create and run a profile on the data object. You can also synchronize the curated results of an enterprise discovery profile after you migrate the profile from version 9.5 to a later release. This article discusses the …

Using the Blaze Engine to Run Profiles and Scorecards

Informatica Blaze engine is an Informatica proprietary engine for distributed processing on Hadoop. You can run profiles and scorecards on the Blaze engine. This article discusses how you can use the Blaze engine to run profiles and scorecards in Informatica Developer and Informatica Analyst.

Using the Random Sampling Option in Profiles

You can choose to run a profile on all the rows in a data object, first N number of rows, or a random sample of data in the data object. This article discusses the random sampling options in profiling and how to use the options based on your requirement.

Using the SQL Transformation in an Informatica Developer Mapping

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.

Using Two-Factor Authentication to Connect to a Kerberos-enabled Informatica Domain

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.

Using Workflow Parameters and Variables to Write to a Dynamic Target File

You can use parameters and variables in a workflow designed in the Developer tool to make the workflow more flexible. This article describes how to use workflow parameters and variables to dynamically determine the name of the target file at run time.

Viewing Scorecard Lineage

View a scorecard lineage diagram for a scorecard metric or metric group in Informatica Analyst. Use scorecard lineage to analyze the root cause of unacceptable score variance for a metric or metric group and understand the data flow. To view the scorecard lineage diagram, export scorecards to an XML file from Informatica Developer. Use …

Released April 2021

Updated April 2021

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