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Lecture 2

The document provides an overview of Informatica PowerCenter, including its key components and functions. It describes the designer interface, repositories, source definitions, transformations, workflows, tasks, and data types used in Informatica. The designer offers tools for creating objects needed for ETL like sources, targets, transformations, mappings, and mapplets. Workflows define instructions to execute tasks like sessions to run mappings.

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Lecture 2

The document provides an overview of Informatica PowerCenter, including its key components and functions. It describes the designer interface, repositories, source definitions, transformations, workflows, tasks, and data types used in Informatica. The designer offers tools for creating objects needed for ETL like sources, targets, transformations, mappings, and mapplets. Workflows define instructions to execute tasks like sessions to run mappings.

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Informatica Overview

-Ashu
Database Systems
Objectives
Designer interface
• Navigator
– Powercenter designer includes a navigator window on
the left
– You can view folders, repository objects and tasks in it
• Workspace
– It is used to view or edit sources, targets, mapplets,
transformations and mappings.
– You can work with a single tool at a time in workspace
– 2 formats:default and workbook
• Status bar
– Displays the status of the operation you perform
• Output window
– Provides details when you perform certain tasks
such as saving work or validating a mapping

• Designer offers several tools which can be


used to create objects necessary to perform
ETL process.
• Source analyzer is used to create source
definition objects. These can be created
manually or imported from a database or aflat
file definition.
• Target designer is used to create the target
definition objects. These can also be created
manually or imported. Eg-structure of how my
target data will be stored(no. of columns etc.)
• Transformation developer is used to create
reusable transformations
• Mapping designer is used to create mappings.
• Mapplet designer is used to create mapplets.
Mapplets is set of transformations that you
can use in mappings
Repositories
• PowerCenter metadata repository stores all the
objects created within PowerCenter
• All objects stored within repository are
organized within the navigator window
• Folders provide a way to store and organize the
metadata repository including mappings,
schemas and sessions
• Folders and subfolders help in logically
organizing repository.
Source definitions
Source analyzer
Target
• Once you have defined the source, you need
to define the target.
• It defines structure of relational database
table or flat file where you will load the data
Transformation
• A transformation is a repository object that
generates, modifies or passes data
• You can create transformations using
powercenter designer tool
• A transformation toolbar gives a quick access
to create new transformations
PowerCenter transformations
Transformation types

• Passive transformation
– do not increase or decrease no. of rows it receives as input
• Active transformation
– Which do not output exact no. of rows that are input
Passive transformation
• If 3 rows are input in a passive transformation, 3 rows
will be generated as output
• For eg, an ETL developer wants to create a simple
mapping for loading customer phone numbers and
providing a sequence to each customer
• For some reason, phone numbers are stored in source
system in character format
• Developer needs to convert 3000 character fields into
numeric, so he uses a sequence generator
transformation to provide a sequence to 3000 customer
data rows
• He then uses an expression transformation
• Expression transformation applies the
calculation on 3000 rows and outputs all of
them in a numeric format
• The transformed data is then loaded in a
target tables
• In this, sequence generator and expression
transformation are passive transformations
Active transformation
• Transformation that discard rows with bad data are
example of active transformation
• Eg, In a mapping developer has configured a source
qualifier transformation to read data from 2 relational
tables belonging to same schema using homogeneous
join
• He then uses a filter transformation to filter null fields
and send only data fields for further processing
• In this case source qualifier and filter transformations
are examples.
Source qualifier
• Source qualifier helps you read data from
source
• Server generates a query for each source
qualifier
• The default query used is select statement for
each source column used in mapping
Data types
• Powercenter generates a select statement for
different platforms
• The data type of each source and target is known to
powercenter when it is imported to the
powercenter repository
• These are called native data types
• The source qualifier transformation of the mapping
will convert the source native data types to a
database neutral(common language) used
internally by powercenter
Workflows
• A workflow is a set of instructions that tells
the integration service how to run a task such
as sessions, email notifications and shell
commands
• After creating task in task developer, in
workflow designer you connect the tasks with
links to create a workflow
• You can also create tasks from within the
workflow designer
Workflow object

Start task Session task

• A session tasks executes a mapping.


• It can execute only one mapping at a time.
Workflow manager
• In workflow manger, you define a set of
instructions called a workflow to execute
mappings you build in the designer
• Generally a workflows contain a session and
any other task you want to perform to run a
session task
• Tasks may include a session, email notification
or scheduling information
• You connect each task with links in a window
Workflow manager tools
• Task developer-helps in creating tasks you
want to run in the workflow
• Worklet designer-helps in creating a worklet
– A worklet is an object representing a set of tasks
created to be reused in a set of workflow logic in
multiple workflows
• Workflow designer-to create a workflow by
connecting tasks with links
Powercenter tasks
• Session
– run logic of a mapping
– One session task can run only one mapping
• Command
– Run external commands
– You can use it to specify unix commands, to remove rejected
files, creating files etc.
• Email
– Send an email to defined recipient’
– You can use it to send an email to developer if a particular
session fails.
• Decision
– Choose between paths in a wokflow
– You can use decision task instead of multiple link
conditions in a workflow
• Assignment
– Assignment task is used to assign a value to a user
defined workflow variable
• Timer
– Allows you to specify period of time to wait before
powercenter runs the next task in the workflow
• Control
– Used to control execution of workflow
– You can stop, abort or fail parent workflow or top level
workflow by defining the appropriate condition in the
control task
• Event wait
– Wait for an event to occur before executing next
session in workflow
• Event raise
– Represents a user defined event.

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