Effective in version 10.2.2, you can add dynamic complex ports to a dynamic mapping that runs on the Spark engine. Use dynamic complex ports to manage frequent schema changes to hierarchical data in complex files.

A dynamic complex port receives new or changed elements of a complex port based on the schema changes at run time. The input rules determine the elements of a dynamic complex port. Based on the input rules, a dynamic complex port receives one or more elements of a complex port from the upstream transformation. You can use dynamic complex ports such as dynamic array, dynamic map, and dynamic struct in some transformations on the Spark engine.

For more information, see the "Processing Hierarchical Data with Schema Changes" chapter in the

Informatica Big Data Management 10.2.2 User Guide

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