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Release Guide

The ILM Products Release Guide is written for administrators who are responsible for installing and configuring ILM products and developers and software engineers who implement ILM products. The ILM Products Release Guide lists new features and enhancements, behavior changes between versions, and tasks you might need to perform after …

Release Notes

This document contains important information about installation, fixed limitations, and known limitations for ILM Data Archive.

Help for Users

User Guide

The Informatica Data Archive User Guide is written for the Database Administrator (DBA) that performs key tasks involving data backup, restore, and retrieval using the Informatica Data Archive user interface. This guide assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat …

Data Archive How-To Guide

The Informatica Data Archive How-To Guide includes articles from the Informatica How-To Library. These articles assume you have knowledge of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment.

Enterprise Data Manager Guide

The Informatica Data Archive Enterprise Data Manager is written for Database Administrators (DBA) that perform key tasks involving data backup, restore, and retrieval using the Informatica Data Archive user interface. This guide assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, …

Help for Administrators

Administrator Guide

The Informatica Data Archive Administrator Guide is written for system administrators who are responsible for configuring and setting up Data Archive. This guide assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, relational database concepts, and the database engines, flat files, or mainframe systems in your environment.

Data Vault Administrator Guide

The Data Vault Administrator Guide provides information about how to configure and manage the Data Vault in Data Archive. The Administrator Guide is written for system administrators who are responsible for setting up and administering Data Archive and performing archive tasks. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of relational …

Reference Material

Application Retirement for Healthcare Accelerator Reference

The Informatica Application Retirement for Healthcare Accelerator Reference is written for system administrators who are responsible for configuring and setting up the application retirement for healthcare accelerator. This guide is also written for users who run patient reports through the patient archive. This guide assumes you have …

Data Vault Message Reference

The Data Vault Message Reference provides information about the messages generated by the Data Vault Service. The Message Reference is written for system administrators who are responsible for administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting Data Vault tasks in Data Archive. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of relational database …

Data Vault SQL Reference

The Data Vault SQL Reference provides information about the SQL commands that can be used to access the Data Vault in Data Archive. The SQL Reference is written for users who use query tools or reporting tools to access data in an optimized archive. This guide assumes that you have knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts, and …

Installation and Upgrade

Installation and Upgrade Guide

The Informatica ILM Products Installation Guide is written for system administrators who are responsible for the installation of the ILM products. This guide is intended to help the reader install Informatica Data Subset, Informatica Data Masking, and Informatica Data Archive. This guide assumes you have knowledge of your operating systems, …

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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