Friday, April 9, 2010

Creating Sample ETL using Informatica 8.6- Part -2

1. start the repository manager to create folders by clicking Start-->All Programs--> Informatica 8.6 -->Client --> Repository manager

2 Click on Repository menu Add Repository





3. Double click on the newly added node to connect to repository







Note: select the domain name first before giving the password, otherwise the connect button wont enable

4. Click on Folder -->Create Folder menu to create the folder.













5. Exit the Repository Manager

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Creating Sample ETL using Informatica 8.6- Part -5

1.Start Informatica Workflow designer
2.Connect to repository.
3.Expand the folders, Under workflows the newly created workflow will appear.
4.Click Tools--> WorkFlow Designer
5.Drag and Drop the WorkFlow into WorkFlow Designer and following screen appears









6.Right Click on the Start image in the workflow designer.

7.Click on Start Task, this will opens Informatica PowerCenter WorkFlow monitor.

8.Connect to Repository , Expand till the workflows folder reached.

9.On successful run succedded message will appear like below

Creating Sample ETL using Informatica 8.6- Part -4

Step 4: Generating WorkFlow
1. start Workflow manager by using Start--> Programs-->Informatica Powercenter Designer 8.6--> Workflow Manager

2. click on Connections--> relational menu to create source and target connections













3. Click on New button to define the source connection properties.

4. Give the database user name and password for the source connection and save the source connection.












5. Similarly define the connection for Target.

6. Go back to Powercenter Designer window

7. Click on Mappings --> Generate WorkFlow menu










8. Click Next and select source and target connection from the drop down box










9. Click Next, Click on Configure button to define correct connections









10. Click on Properties tab to give whether to load is append or truncate and load.

Creating Sample ETL using Informatica 8.6- Part -3

Step : Creating WorkFlow Mappings
Pre-requiste: Create ODBC so that tables can be reverse engineerd.

1. Start the Informatica Desinger using Start-->Programs-->Informatica Power designer 8.6-->Client--> Power Center Designer

2.Connec to the repository by giving the repository user name and password.

3.Click Tools--> Source Analyzer

4.Click on the Sources --> import from Database menu

5. Give the datbase user name and password, click Connect









6. Select the table and press OK to import the table into source Analyzer pane.

7. Click on Tools--> Targer Designer menu

8. click on Targets--> Import from Database menu

9. Connect to database after giving target user naem and passowrd and press Connect button

10. Select table and press OK button which will import the table into target analyzer pane.

11. Select the mapping Designer by selecting Tools-->Mapping Designer

12. Drag the Source table from Source folder into Mapping Designer.It will prompt you to enter teh mapping name. Give a valid mapping name.

13. Drag the Target table from Target folder into Mapping Designer.










14. Map the columns from Source Qualifier to the target by clicking on teh column Source qualifier and dragging the selected column to the target column.

Now the mappings been done, We have to genereate Workflow as next Step.

Creating Sample ETL using Informatica 8.6- Part -I

Step: Informatica Adminstration Tasks for creating Services

1.Install the Informatica 8.6

2.After installing , Start the Informatica Services











3.After this the following services will be started










4.Start the informatica Power ceneter Administration console
Start--> All Programs--> Informatica Power Center 8.6-->Services --> Power center Administration console.

Following Screen appears










5. Login using user name and password .
Note this is given during installation time.
Default user name : Administartor
Password : Administrator

6. Click on Admin console menu on the welcome screen










7. Create a oracle database user to hold the repository.

8. Create Repository Service by clicking












9. Fill the necessary details in following screen to create teh repository service

Service Name: Name of the repository service to be created
Connect String: service name pointing to the db
User name: user name created in step7
Password : Password created in Step 7

10 Stop the repository service and restart again so that Integration service can be created.

11. Create the Integration Service by clicking Create-->Integration Service menu.

Repository user name: User who have been already created in informatica security manager.
Password : password of the informatica user








12. Assign the privileges the repository user for the newly created repository by clicking configure Security icon on the right corner.




13. Click on the Roles Tab and select the check box against the created repository.





14. Similarly click on teh Privleges tab and select the check box against the repository name so that all privleges is granted for the user.

goto next step

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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