Informatica Connector Toolkit Getting Started Guide

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Analyze the Data Source

Before you develop a connector for a data source, perform a detailed analysis of the data source.

Analyze the following aspects of the data source:

Connection attributes that you need to connect to the data source.

Informatica platform data objects that you need to create to read data and write data.

Native data types and the possible mapping to the Informatica platform data types.

APIs available for the following tasks:

Validate connection attributes and connect to the data source

Browse metadata from the data source

Read from or write to the data source

Additional configuration attributes that you require to read or write data to the data source.