Administrator Guide

Winter 2018

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Step 1. Create a Service Connector

Use the Process Designer of Informatica Cloud to create a service connector that specifies parameters to connect to services and data sources. The binding for the service connector action tells the REST service what request you want to send.

To open the Process Designer, from the

Design

menu, select

Service & Process Design

On the

Design Home

page, click

New

Service Connector

On the

Definition

tab, enter a name and description for the service connector..

Optionally, define tags to logically group service connectors and other objects such as connections and processes.

The following image shows the

Definition

tab:

Click the

icon to enter the following connection properties required to connect to the service:

Name: Name of the property.
Test With: The fully qualified domain name or the IP address of the machine that runs MDM Multidomain Edition.
Type: Data type of the value that you entered in the
Test With
field.

Click

Actions

On the

Action

tab, enter an action name.

The following image shows the

Action

tab:

On the

Input

tab, define input variables that are unique to the service to which you are sending data.

You can configure the following settings for each input data item:

Name. Name of the input data item.

Label. Name of the item to display within a process.

Type. Data type of the item.

Required. Indicates that a value is required for the parameter.

Description. Description of the input parameter.

Parameter. If selected, the service connector passes this parameter to the service. If the parameter is only used when constructing another parameter and does not need to be passed to the service, clear this field.

Test with. Process Designer uses the Test with value to test the action.

On the

Binding

tab, configure the following fields:

URL: URL of the Get Metadata or Search Business Entity REST web service.; The Get Metadata URL has the following format:
http://<host>:<port>/<context>/<database ID>/<business entity>.json?action=meta; The following sample URL gets the metadata of a business entity or business entity view in the MDM Hub:
http://10.65.112.181:8080/cmx/cs/orcl-CMX_ORS/SA_Emp.json?action=meta; The Search Business Entity URL has the following format:
http://<host>:<port>/<context>/<database ID>/<business entity>.json?fq=<business entity field name>='<business entity field value>'
In the Search Business Entity URL, you can use only the MDM Hub Smart Search fq query parameter and the AND logical operator.; The following sample URL searches for records that have the last name as
Joe
:
http://10.65.112.181:8080/cmx/cs/orcl-CMX_ORS/SA_Emp.json?fq=lastName=joe
Verb: Method to run the REST web service.
Multi Using: Determines how query string parameters are generated when you need to specify multiple values for a parameter.; You can select one of the following options:
Semicolon separated. For a semicolon-separated multiselect list, Process Designer adds input parameter values as a single string. Default.
Comma separated. For comma-separated multiselect list, Process Designer adds input parameter values as a single string.
Append brackets. For a semicolon-separated multiselect list, Process Designer maps semicolon-separated values to multiple query parameters of the same name, and appends
[]
to the parameter name.
Append numbers. For a semi-colon separated multiselect list, Process Designer maps semicolon-separated values to multiple query parameters of the same name and adds a number to the end of the field name, that is,
1..N
.
Authentication: Authentication credentials to access the MDM Hub data sources.
HTTP Headers: If the service requires one or more HTTP headers, enter the name and the value of the parameter for each header.; To define a SOAP-based service connection, you must add both the "SOAPAction" and "Content-Type" headers. The value of SOAPAction can be empty, dynamically set using GET, or defined in the WSDL.