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Release Information

What's New and Changed

See the Data Archive What's New and Changed to learn about new functionality and changes for current and recent Data Archive releases. You can also read information related to release tasks that you might need to perform after you upgrade from a previous version.

Release Notes

Read the Data Archive Release Notes to learn about known limitations and fixes associated with the current version. The Release Notes also include information about emergency bug fixes included in the version.

Help for Users

User Guide

See the Data Archive User Guide to learn how to perform tasks involving data backup, restore, and retrieval in Data Archive. Read about application retirement, retention management, and retirement report generation.

Enterprise Data Manager Guide

Read the Data Archive Enterprise Data Manager Guide to learn how to use the Enterprise Data Manager tool. You can use the tool to manage application archiving, manage records, perform sensitive data masking, and application retirement.

Data Archive How-To Guide

Refer to the Data Archive How-To Guide for a collection of Data Archive articles from the Informatica How-To Library. The articles include information on how to configure, backup, and restore a Data Vault, and information on how to perform multiple tasks in Data Archive.

Help for Administrators

Administrator Guide

Read the Data Archive Administrator Guide to learn how to configure and set up Data Archive. Learn about system configuration, database users and privileges, and how to set up source and target connections.

Data Vault Administrator Guide

Read the Data Vault Administrator Guide to learn how to configure and manage the data vault. The guide includes information about the Data Vault Administration Tool, user account privileges, and audit logs.

Reference Material

Data Vault Message Reference

Refer to the Data Vault Message Reference for information about the messages generated by the Data Vault Service. The Data Vault Service messages include messages for data definition language errors, load balancer and administrative errors, service exit codes, SQL tool messages ,and Data Vault loader messages.

Data Vault SQL Reference

Refer to the Data Vault SQL Reference for information about the SQL commands that you can use to access the Data Vault in Data Archive. Learn about date and time arithmetic operations, WHERE clauses, the UNION operator, and how to use parameters in a query.

Application Retirement for Healthcare Accelerator Reference

Refer to the Informatica Application Retirement for Healthcare Accelerator Reference for information about how to configure and set up the application retirement for healthcare accelerator. Learn how to run accounts receivable reports, claim reports, and patient information reports.

Installation and Upgrade

Installation and Upgrade Guide

Follow the instructions in the Data Archive Installation and Upgrade Guide to install or upgrade Data Archive and Data Vault. The guide includes information on minimum requirements, prerequisite tasks, and post installation tasks. The guide also includes information about installing application accelerators and upgrading application history data.

Configure

Archive and Retirement Job Steps in Data Archive

This document describes the internals of the steps involved during Archive and Retirement jobs scheduled in the Data Security Group (DSG) Data Archive Service. The document considers the source and target databases as Oracle databases in the description of Online Archive jobs.

Archiving Data from a Custom Application to the Informatica Data Vault

You can use Data Archive to archive data from custom applications to the Informatica Data Vault. This article explains how to create and define entities for archiving. It also explains how to configure and schedule the archive project.

Retiring an Application to Data Vault With On-Premise Data Archive

You can use on-premise Data Archive to retire an application to the Informatica Data Vault. This article describes the steps to import metadata, create entities, and create and schedule a retirement project.

Using Microsoft Excel to Access Informatica Data Vault Tables

Informatica Data Vault (IDV) is a compressed read-only database that stores inactive data. This article describes the steps to use Microsoft Excel to read data from Data Vault.

Using PowerExchange to Validate and Extract Data in Flat Files

Data in flat files must be mapped to a datatype before it can be retired. You can use PowerExchange to create data maps that specify the datatypes for data in flat files. After you create a data map, you can validate and correct the data before you retire it.

Integrate

Using PowerExchange ODBC Connections in a Data Archive Retirement Project

You can use PowerExchange ODBC connections to connect to z/OS data sources in an Informatica Data Archive retirement project. This article describes the procedures for using PowerExchange ODBC connections in an archive retirement project.

Optimize and Tune

Best practices for using cloud storage to archive data in Data Archive

You can use Data Archive to archive your data to cloud storage. This article describes some best practices to follow when you archive data to different cloud storage types.

Install and Upgrade

High Availability Configuration for Data Archive and the Data Vault (Version 6.4)

This article presents an example of a system configuration for Data Archive and the Data Vault designed for high availability.

Additional Articles

Using Microsoft Excel to Access Informatica Data Vault Tables

Informatica Data Vault (IDV) is a compressed read-only database that stores inactive data. This article describes the steps to use Microsoft Excel to read data from Data Vault.
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