Informatica (Version 9.0.1 HotFix 1)

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Informatica Release Guide

Version 9.0.1 HotFix 1September 2010

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Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvInformatica Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Informatica Customer Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Informatica Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Informatica Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Informatica How-To Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Informatica Knowledge Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Informatica Multimedia Knowledge Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Part I: Version 9.0.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1: New Features and Enhancements (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer Advanced Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Informatica Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

PowerExchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Adapters for Data Quality and Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 2: New Features and Enhancements (9.0.1 HotFixes). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12HotFix 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer Advanced Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Informatica Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter 3: Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer AdvancedEdition (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 4: Informatica Data Services (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Relational Physical Data Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Relational Physical Data Object Source and Target Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Relational Physical Data Object Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Flat File Physical Data Object File Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 5: Informatica Domain (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.6.1 Features in 9.0.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

IBM DB2 Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connection Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Command Line Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

infacmd Changed Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

infacmd New Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

New Environment Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Data Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Data Integration Service Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Maximum # of Concurrent Connections Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Maximum Execution Pool Size Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

LDAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

User Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

View Log Events from the Previous Informatica Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Maximum Heap Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Node Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

User Activity Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

License Management Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 6: PowerCenter (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Mapping Analyst for Excel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Excel Add-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Export Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Standard Mapping Specification Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Web Services Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Sources and Targets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 7: Metadata Manager (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27backupCmdLine Command Line Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Business Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Data Lineage for Custom Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Data Lineage for SQL Inline Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Impact Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

mmcmd Command Line Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Searching for PowerCenter Metadata Extensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Part II: Version 9.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 8: New Features and Enhancements (9.0). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Data Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Informatica Analyst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Command Line Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

PowerExchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Adapters for PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

PowerExchange for HP Neoview Transporter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

PowerExchange for Netezza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

PowerExchange for Web Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

PowerExchange for webMethods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 9: Informatica Domain (9.0). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45PowerCenter Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

PowerCenter Domain Name Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Administration Console Name Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Informatica Administrator URL Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Object Name Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Shared Object Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Domain Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Command Line Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

New Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

New Environment Variable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Metadata Manager Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Chapter 10: PowerCenter (9.0). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Reference Table Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Chapter 11: Metadata Manager (9.0). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Business Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

mmcmd Command Line Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Data Lineage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Removed Resource Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Deprecated Metadata Source Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Linking Objects in Connected Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Connection Assignments for Purged Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Automatic Connection Assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

PowerCenter Source Increment Extract Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

PowerCenter Parameter Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Part III: Version 8.6.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 12: New Features and Enhancements (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Version 8.6.1 HotFix 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Version 8.6.1 HotFix 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Data Masking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Version 8.6.1 HotFix 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

PowerExchange for MSMQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Version 8.6.1 HotFix 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

PowerExchange for JMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Web Services Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Version 8.6.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Administration Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Command Line Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Deployment Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Upgrade Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Data Masking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Web Services Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

PowerExchange for Netezza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

PowerExchange for Web Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Chapter 13: Integration Service (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Date Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Pushdown Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Pushdown Subquery Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Pushdown Support for Netezza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Oracle Bulk Load Buffer Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Partitioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

IBM DB2 Range Partitioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

FastExport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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Chapter 14: Command Line Programs (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68infasetup Changed Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

pmrep Changed Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

pmrep New Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

infacmd isp Changed Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Chapter 15: Web Services Provider (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Web Service Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Deprecated Web Service Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter 16: Mapping Analyst for Excel (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Matching Criteria for Custom Metamaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Import Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Export Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Custom File Naming Conventions and Storage Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 17: Metadata Manager (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Terminology Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Data Lineage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Lookup Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Expanding Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Viewing Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Metadata Catalog and Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Object Relationships Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Business Intelligence Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Business Objects Configuration Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Dropped Objects in an Oracle Schema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Teradata Hierarchy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

ERwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

URL API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Business Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Wildcards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Chapter 18: Data Analyzer (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Datasource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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Chapter 19: Adapters for PowerCenter (8.6.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79PowerExchange for Netezza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

PowerExchange for Web Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

BAPI/RFC Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

BCI Metadata Connection Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

SAP/ALE IDoc Interpreter Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Part IV: Version 8.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Chapter 20: New Features and Enhancements (8.6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Code Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Datatypes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Orchestration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Web Services Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Mapping Architect for Visio (Data Stencil). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Metadata Exchanges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Metadata Manager Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerChannel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Adapters for PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerExchange for Netezza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BI (BW Option). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver (mySAP Option). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

PowerExchange for Web Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Chapter 21: PowerCenter (8.6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Code Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Real-time Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

XML Target File List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

LANG Environment Variable for Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Mapping Architect for Visio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Mapping Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Unstructured Data Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Name Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

New Transformation Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Writing to Multiple Output Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Chapter 22: Metadata Manager (8.6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Custom Metadata Configurator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Connection String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Relationships Between Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Metadata Manager Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Business Objects XConnect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Cognos SDK Library Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Oracle Service Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Data Lineage and Where-Used Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 23: Data Analyzer (8.6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Data Analyzer Context Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

JDBC Driver URL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Chapter 24: Adapters for PowerCenter (8.6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97PowerExchange for Netezza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Editing Datatype and Precision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Update Else Insert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Unprojected Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Code Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating Source and Target Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

PowerExchange for JMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver mySAP Option Renamed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing the SAP RFC SDK Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Processing BAPI/RFC Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BW Option Renamed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Registering the PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BI Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing the SAP RFC SDK Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

PowerExchange for Web Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Web Services Consumer Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

SOAP Response Timeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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Part V: Version 8.5.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Chapter 25: New Features and Enhancements (8.5.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Code Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 26: PowerCenter (8.5.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103pmrep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Part VI: Version 8.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 27: New Features and Enhancements (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Command Line Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

infacmd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

pmrep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Data Analyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Data Profiling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Data Stencil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Datatypes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Date Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

External Loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Flat File Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Parameters and Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Pushdown Optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Real-time Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Session Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Metadata Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Browse and Search Metadata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Edit Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Custom Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Data Lineage and Where-Used Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Metadata Exchanges (XConnects). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

User Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Metadata Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

PowerCenter Repository Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

New Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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Repository Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Unified Security Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Single Sign-On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

HTTPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Integration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Transformation Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Web Services Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Web Services Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Source and Target Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Mappings and Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

XML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

PowerExchange (PowerCenter Connect). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

PowerExchange for WebSphere MQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

PowerExchange for JMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BW Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver mySAP Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

PowerExchange for Web Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Chapter 28: PowerCenter Domain (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Application Service Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Domain and Service Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Domain Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Chapter 29: PowerCenter Security (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125User and Group Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Unified User and Group Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Domain User Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Default Users and Groups for a Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Default Users and Groups for a Repository Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Default Repository Administrator Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Logging In to PowerCenter Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Service Manager Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Domain Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Domain Privilege Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Domain Tasks Not Determined by Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

PowerCenter Repository Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Repository Service Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Repository Tasks Not Determined by Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Use Repository Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Metadata Manager Privileges and Roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Permissions on Domain Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Permissions on PowerCenter Repository Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Relational Connection Object Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Configuring Repository Folder and Global Object Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Copying Repository Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Locking and Unlocking Labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Chapter 30: Repository and Repository Service (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Code Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Managing Repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Connecting to a Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Creating a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Managing User Connections and Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Restoring a Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Managing a Repository Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Changing a Repository Code Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

MX Views and MX Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

REP_USERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

REP_USERS_GROUPS and REP_GROUPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Operating Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Chapter 31: Integration Service (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Datatype Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Bigint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Datetime Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Character Conversion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Character Mapping Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Substitution Values for Inconvertible Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Post-Session Email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Pushdown Optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Allow Temporary View for Pushdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Pushdown Optimization Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Date Formats for TO_CHAR() and TO_DATE() Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

$$PushdownConfig Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Pushdown Optimization for Slowly Changing Dimension Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Pushdown Optimization for the Update Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Real-time Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Recovery Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

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Recovery Table and Recovery File Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Recovery with Restart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Stopping a Real-time Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Partitioning Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Changes to Restart and Recover Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Chapter 32: Functions (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Built-in Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Date Functions with Format String Arguments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

DATE_COMPARE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

GREATEST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

LEAST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

MAKE_DATE_TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

User-Defined Functions in the Navigator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Managing User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Validating User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Renaming User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Copying User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Versioning User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Analyzing Dependencies for User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Querying User-Defined Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Chapter 33: Web Services Provider (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Changes to Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Web Service Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Web Service Sources and Targets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Chapter 34: Command Line Programs (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152infacmd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

New infacmd Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Changed infacmd Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

infasetup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

pmcmd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

pmrep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

New pmrep Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Changed pmrep Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Ported pmrep Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Chapter 35: Transformations (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Complex Data Transformation (Unstructured Data). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

External Procedure Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Java Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

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Joiner Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Sequence Generator Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Chapter 36: Data Profiling (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Data Profiling Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Data Profiling Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Chapter 37: Data Analyzer (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164User Account Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Data Lineage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Weblogic and WebSphere Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Customization of Style Sheets and Color Schemes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Change in jBoss Installation Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Managing Data Analyzer Repository Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Obsolete Utilities and Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Changes to Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Change in Path for Tools and Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Language Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Multi-Select on Dashboard Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Panscopic and RDL Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Unicode Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Fax and Mobile Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Access Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Chapter 38: PowerCenter Repository Reports (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171PowerCenter Repository Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Running Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Schema Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Chapter 39: Metadata Manager (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Terminology Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Configuring Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Metadata Manager Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Metadata Manager Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Running Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Report Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Removed Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Dashboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Schema Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Metadata Exchanges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Business Objects Metadata Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Cognos Impromptu Metadata Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

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Microstrategy Metadata Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Creating and Configuring Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Importing and Exporting Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Loading Multiple Resources Simultaneously. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Agent URL Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

JDBC Connection URL and Source JDBC URL Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Encoding Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Scheduling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Data Lineage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Lineage History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Field-Level Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Limits on Displayed Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Remote Access To Data Lineage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Data Lineage Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Importing and Exporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Object and Report Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Versioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Deleting (Purging) Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Searching Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Creating Metadata Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Chapter 40: PowerCenter Connect (8.5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185PowerCenter Connect Name Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

PowerExchange for JMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Loading Data to SAP BW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

BW OHS Source Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

BW Application Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Process Chains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Installing Transports to Read Data from SAP BW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

PowerExchange for WebSphere MQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Selecting a Code Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Processing Unicode Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver mySAP Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Processing BAPI/RFC Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Passing the Sender Partner Number to SAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

LANG Datatype Validation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

saprfc.ini and sideinfo File Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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Upgrading IDoc and DMI Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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PrefaceThe Informatica Release Guide is written for administrators who are responsible for installing and configuring theInformatica platform and developers and software engineers who implement Informatica. This guide assumes thatyou have knowledge of the features for which you are responsible. The Informatica Release Guide lists newfeatures and enhancements, behavior changes between versions, and tasks you might need to perform after youupgrade from a previous version.

Informatica Resources

Informatica Customer PortalAs an Informatica customer, you can access the Informatica Customer Portal site at http://mysupport.informatica.com. The site contains product information, user group information, newsletters,access to the Informatica customer support case management system (ATLAS), the Informatica How-To Library,the Informatica Knowledge Base, the Informatica Multimedia Knowledge Base, Informatica ProductDocumentation, and access to the Informatica user community.

Informatica DocumentationThe Informatica Documentation team takes every effort to create accurate, usable documentation. If you havequestions, comments, or ideas about this documentation, contact the Informatica Documentation team throughemail at infa_documentation@informatica.com. We will use your feedback to improve our documentation. Let usknow if we can contact you regarding your comments.

The Documentation team updates documentation as needed. To get the latest documentation for your product,navigate to Product Documentation from http://mysupport.informatica.com.

Informatica Web SiteYou can access the Informatica corporate web site at http://www.informatica.com. The site contains informationabout Informatica, its background, upcoming events, and sales offices. You will also find product and partnerinformation. The services area of the site includes important information about technical support, training andeducation, and implementation services.

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Informatica Knowledge BaseAs an Informatica customer, you can access the Informatica Knowledge Base at http://mysupport.informatica.com.Use the Knowledge Base to search for documented solutions to known technical issues about Informaticaproducts. You can also find answers to frequently asked questions, technical white papers, and technical tips. Ifyou have questions, comments, or ideas about the Knowledge Base, contact the Informatica Knowledge Baseteam through email at KB_Feedback@informatica.com.

Informatica Multimedia Knowledge BaseAs an Informatica customer, you can access the Informatica Multimedia Knowledge Base at http://mysupport.informatica.com. The Multimedia Knowledge Base is a collection of instructional multimedia filesthat help you learn about common concepts and guide you through performing specific tasks. If you havequestions, comments, or ideas about the Multimedia Knowledge Base, contact the Informatica Knowledge Baseteam through email at KB_Feedback@informatica.com.

Informatica Global Customer SupportYou can contact a Customer Support Center by telephone or through the Online Support. Online Support requiresa user name and password. You can request a user name and password at http://mysupport.informatica.com.

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Part I: Version 9.0.1This part contains the following chapters:

¨ New Features and Enhancements (9.0.1), 2

¨ New Features and Enhancements (9.0.1 HotFixes), 12

¨ Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer Advanced Edition (9.0.1), 14

¨ Informatica Data Services (9.0.1), 15

¨ Informatica Domain (9.0.1), 17

¨ PowerCenter (9.0.1), 25

¨ Metadata Manager (9.0.1), 27

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C H A P T E R 1

New Features and Enhancements(9.0.1)

This chapter includes the following topics:

¨ Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer Advanced Edition, 2

¨ Informatica Data Services, 5

¨ Informatica Domain, 6

¨ Metadata Manager, 8

¨ PowerCenter, 9

¨ PowerExchange, 10

¨ Adapters for Data Quality and Data Services, 11

Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data ExplorerAdvanced Edition

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data ExplorerAdvanced Edition.

Analyst Viewer PermissionsYou can create a user or group in the Administrator tool with read-only permissions on objects in the Analyst tool.Analyst Viewer users and groups can view a profile, scorecard, bad or duplicate record table, or reference datatable. They cannot create, edit, or run an object or export profile results to reference tables.

Informatica ContentYou can define an INFA_CONTENT environment variable on a PowerCenter Integration Service machine to setthe path PowerCenter uses to read reference data. Use this environment variable if you cannot install thereference data to the expected location on the PowerCenter machine.

Informatica Data Quality TransformationsAddress Validator transformation

You can configure the Address Validator transformation to generate Coding Accuracy Support System(CASS) reports for United States addresses and Software Evaluation and Recognition Program (SERP)reports for Canadian addresses. CASS and SERP reports verify that the address validation operationsperformed on the source address data meet standards set by the USPS and Canada Post.

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Multi-strategy transformations

You can configure multiple strategies within a single transformation object for the following transformations:Case, Decision, Key Generator, Labeler, Match, Merge, Parser, and Standardizer. You can apply eachstrategy to a set of data ports in a mapplet or mapping.

Decision transformation

Use the Decision transformation to write business rules using IF-THEN-ELSE logic and regular expressionsand apply the rules to selected ports in a mapplet or mapping.

Note: You must have Informatica Data Quality to use the Data Quality transformations.

Mapping Export and ImportYou can use the Developer tool to import mappings, mapplets, transformations, and any reference table data usedby these objects to the Model repository in a single step.

Mapping Performance¨ You can tune the performance of mappings by updating the mapping optimizer level through the mapping

configuration or mapping deployment properties. The optimizer level determines which optimization methodsthat the Data Integration Service applies to the mapping at run time. You can choose no, minimal, normal, orfull optimization for mappings.

Parameters and Parameter Files¨ You can create parameters to define values that change between mapping runs. For example, create a

parameter to represent a connection so you can run one mapping with different relational source connections.Create a parameter file to define parameter values. The Data Integration Service applies the parameter valueswhen you run a mapping from the command line and specify the parameter file.

Physical Data ObjectsCustomized physical data objects

You can create customized physical data objects to perform the following tasks:

¨ Join source data that originates from the same source database.

¨ Select distinct values from the source.

¨ Filter rows when the Data Integration Service reads source data.

¨ Specify sorted ports.

¨ Specify an outer join instead of the default inner join.

¨ Create a custom query to issue a special SELECT statement for the Data Integration Service to readsource data.

¨ Add pre- and post-mapping SQL commands.

¨ Define parameters for the data object.

¨ Retain key relationships when you synchronize the object with the sources.

You can add customized physical data objects to mappings and mapplets as read, write, or lookup objects.

Create and import

¨ You can create physical data objects from flat file, nonrelational database, relational database, and SAPresources.

¨ You can create physical data objects from resources that contain Developer tool illegal characters orreserved words. For example, you can import a view named "CONCAT" or a table that contains a columnwith a period in the column name.

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¨ You can import tables, synonyms, and views from databases that use mixed case metadata. For example,you can import tables "CUST" and "Cust" as separate physical data objects.

ProfilesProfile comments

You can choose to delete profile comments on a profile.

Profile results

¨ You can profile multilingual data from different data objects and view profile results based on the localesettings in the browser. The Analyst tool changes the Datetime, Numeric, and Decimal datatypes based onthe browser locale.

¨ You can sort on multilingual data. The Analyst tool displays the sort order based on the browser locale.

¨ After you run a profile, the Analyst tool purges the last profile run results from the profiling warehouse.

¨ The profiling warehouse stores 16,000 unique highest frequency values including NULL values for profileresults by default. If there is at least one NULL value in the profile results, the Analyst tool can displayNULL values as patterns

Running a profile

¨ After you add a rule to a profile that has previously run, you can select the rule and associated columnsand run the profile again. The Analyst tool displays the previous profile results and the recent rule andcolumns results. You can modify the rule and run the profile again to view changes to profile results for therule.

¨ When you run a profile, you can choose to discard the profile results for previously profiled columns anddisplay results for the columns and rules selected for the latest profile run.

Drilling down on columns

¨ You can choose to drill down on profile data for a column.

¨ You can select the drill-down columns without profiling all the source columns again after you run theprofile.

Repository¨ You can migrate objects from the Informatica Data Quality 8.6.2 repository to the 9.0.1 Model repository. You

can also migrate reference data files used by the objects.

Rules¨ You can choose to drill down on live data for a rule.

¨ You can select the rules for drill down without profiling all the source columns again after running the profile.

Scorecards¨ You can group related scores within a scorecard to view a set of scores for a particular business concept.

When you add a profile column to a scorecard, you can choose to add it to a group. You can add a score to agroup within a scorecard. You can move scores between groups within a scorecard and edit and removegroups from a scorecard.

¨ You can select columns in the scorecard before running a scorecard again. You can choose to drill down onlive data for columns in a score.

¨ You can view the total number of valid and not valid records and the refresh date for each score in thescorecard.

4 Chapter 1: New Features and Enhancements (9.0.1)

Informatica Data ServicesThis section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Services.

Applications¨ Objects in the Application view are sorted by default.

¨ Projects in the Application view have a new icon. They do not use the folder icon anymore.

¨ You can rename an application in the Administrator tool.

¨ You can refresh the Application view to update newly deployed, undeployed, and restored applications.

¨ You can update an application to resolve the conflict when you use the Administrator tool to deploy anapplication with the same name as an existing application. Also, when you select the update or replace optionduring a conflict, you can select an option to stop the existing application if it is running.

Custom Data Transformation¨ You can configure a Custom Data transformation in a mapping. The Custom Data transformation processes

unstructured and semi-structured file formats, such as messaging formats, HTML pages, and PDF documents.The Custom Data transformation also processes structured formats such as ACORD, HL7, EDI-X-12,EDIFACT, and SWIFT. The Custom Data transformation calls a Data Transformation service to process thedata.

Data Object CacheYou can purge data object and virtual table cache for an application. You can purge the cache from theApplications view in the Administrator tool. You can also purge cache with the infacmd PurgeDataObjectCachecommand line program.

Mapping Performance¨ You can tune the performance of mappings by updating the mapping optimizer level through the mapping

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