Informatica - 9.6.1 HotFix 2 - Release Notes - (English) · Informatica Installation Dropped Support D r o p p e d S u p p o r t i n V e r s i o n 9 . 6 . 1 Effective in version 9.6.1,

Informatica® CorporationInformatica

Version 9.6.1 HotFix 2Release Notes

January 2015Copyright (c) 1993-2015 Informatica Corporation. All rights reserved.

ContentsInformatica Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Dropped Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

IBM DB2 BLU Connectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Oracle Multitenant Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Oracle In-Memory Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Informatica Domain Patches and Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Address Validation Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 on Non-shared Drives with Different Node Configuration. . . . . . . . . . 7

Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 SSL Domain on Non-Shared Network Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 Custom SSL Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 in Silent Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Apply and Roll Back the HotFix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Before You Upgrade the Application Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Uninstallation of PowerCenter Client and Data Transformation Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

POODLE Vulnerability Fixed in Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Disable SSL 3.0 for Database Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Update the IBM SDK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Informatica Version 9.6.1 HotFix 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Informatica Domain Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Informatica Domain Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

PowerCenter Closed Enhancements (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

PowerCenter Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

PowerCenter Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

PowerCenter Third-Party Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Big Data Edition Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Big Data Edition Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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Big Data Edition Third-Party Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Informatica Analyst Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Informatica Analyst Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Informatica Data Quality Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Informatica Data Quality Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Informatica Data Services Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Informatica Data Services Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Informatica Developer Closed Enhancements (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Informatica Developer Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Informatica Developer Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Informatica Developer Third-Party Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Informatica Data Transformation Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Metadata Manager Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Metadata Manager Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Informatica Connector Toolkit Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Informatica Version 9.6.1 HotFix 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Informatica Domain Closed Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Informatica Domain Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Informatica Domain Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

PowerCenter Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

PowerCenter Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Big Data Edition Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Big Data Edition Known Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Big Data Edition Third-Party Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Informatica Analyst Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Informatica Analyst Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Informatica Data Quality Closed Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Informatica Data Quality Fixed Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Informatica Data Services Closed Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Informatica Data Services Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Informatica Data Transformation Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Informatica Developer Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Informatica Developer Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Metadata Manager Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Metadata Manager Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Design API Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Informatica Connector Toolkit Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Informatica Connector Toolkit Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Informatica Version 9.6.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Informatica Domain Closed Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Informatica Domain Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Informatica Domain Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

PowerCenter Closed Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

PowerCenter Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

PowerCenter Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

PowerCenter Third-Party Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Big Data Edition Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Big Data Edition Third-Party Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

PowerExchange 9.6.1 Release Delayed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Informatica Analyst Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Informatica Analyst Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Informatica Data Quality Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Informatica Data Quality Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Informatica Data Services Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Informatica Data Services Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Informatica Data Transformation Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Informatica Data Transformation Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Informatica Developer Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Informatica Developer Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Informatica Developer Third-Party Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Metadata Manager Closed Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Metadata Manager Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Metadata Manager Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Metadata Manager Third-Party Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Design API Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Design API Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Informatica Connector Toolkit Fixed Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Informatica Connector Toolkit Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

This document contains important information about installation, fixed limitations, and known limitations for the Informatica domain, PowerCenter, Data Analyzer, Metadata Manager, Informatica Data Quality, Informatica Data Services, and Informatica Data Transformation.

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Informatica Installation

Dropped Support

Dropped Support in Version 9.6.1

Effective in version 9.6.1, Informatica dropped support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.

For more information about product requirements and supported platforms, see the Product Availability Matrix on the Informatica My Support Portal: https://mysupport.informatica.com/community/my-support/product-availability-matrices

Dropped Support in Version 9.6.0

Effective in version 9.6.0, Informatica dropped support for graphical installation of Informatica services on UNIX. On UNIX, you can run the installer in console or silent mode.

Effective in version 9.6.0, Informatica dropped support for the following third-party software:

• 32-bit Linux

• Solaris on x64

• Oracle 10gR2 repository database

• Sybase ASE 15.0.3 repository database

• Mozilla Firefox web browser

• Windows XP client support

• Apache Hadoop 2.0

• Cloudera CDH 2 Update 3, CDH 3 Update 4

• Map R 2.1.2

• Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1

For more information about product requirements and supported platforms, see the Product Availability Matrix on the Informatica My Support Portal: https://mysupport.informatica.com/community/my-support/product-availability-matrices

Effective December 31, 2013, Informatica dropped support for the following PowerExchange adapters on PowerCenter:

• PowerExchange for Facebook

• PowerExchange for LinkedIn

• PowerExchange for Twitter

IBM DB2 BLU Connectivity

You can use DB2 BLU as a source or a target in a mapping. You can also run a profile on the DB2 BLU database.

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https://mysupport.informatica.com/community/my-support/product-availability-matrices

https://mysupport.informatica.com/community/my-support/product-availability-matrices

Oracle Multitenant Support

Oracle Multitenant is an Oracle database feature designed for the Cloud. You can use Oracle Multitenant to simplify consolidation, provisioning, and upgrades. You can read from or write to Oracle 12c Multitenant container databases. You can also run a profile on the Oracle Multitenant database.

Oracle In-Memory Support

Oracle In-Memory databases deliver high performance for transactions and support real-time analytics, business intelligence, and reporting. You can read data from or write data to Oracle In-Memory databases. You can also run a profile on Oracle In-Memory databases.

Informatica Domain Patches and Libraries

The following table lists the patches and libraries that the Informatica services require on a Windows platform:

Platform Operating System Operating System Patch

Windows x64 2012 None required

Windows x64 2008 R2 64-bit None required

Windows x64 2008 64-bit SP2

Windows x86 2008 32-bit SP2

The following table lists the patches and libraries that the Informatica services require on a UNIX platform:


AIX 7.1 TL2 OS level: 7100-02bos.adt.debug Version 7.1.2.0

AIX 6.1 TL8 OS level: 6100-08bos.adt.debug Version 6.1.8.0

HP-UX 11.31 None required

Linux-x64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

All of the following packages, where <version> is any version of the package:- e2fsprogs-libs-<version>.el6- keyutils-libs-<version>.el6- libselinux-<version>.el6- libsepol-<version>.el6

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Linux-x64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

All of the following packages, where <version> is any version of the package:- e2fsprogs-libs-<version>.el5- keyutils-libs-<version>.el5- libselinux-<version>.el5- libsepol-<version>.el5

Linux-x64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

None required

Solaris sp-64 11 None required

Solaris sp-64 10 5.10 Generic_147147-26

zLinux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

All of the following packages, where <version> is any version of the package:- e2fsprogs-libs-<version>.el6.s390- keyutils-libs-<version>.el6.s390- libselinux-<version>.el6.s390- libsepol-<version>.el6.s390

zLinux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3

All of the following packages, where <version> is any version of the package:- e2fsprogs-libs-<version>.el5.s390- keyutils-libs-<version>.el5.s390- libselinux-<version>.el5.s390- libsepol-<version>.el5.s390

zLinux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

None required

Address Validation Library

Informatica Data Quality 9.6.1 HotFix 2 and PowerCenter 9.6.1 HotFix 2 use version 5.6.0 of the AddressDoctor software library.

The AddressDoctor 5.6.0 library validates postal addresses to the following certification standards:

• Address Matching Approval System (AMAS) Cycle 2013, Australia.

• Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) Cycle N, United States.

• National Address Management Service (SNA), France. Certified for Hexacle house number-level data and CEDEX A organization-level data.

• SendRight Cycle 2014, New Zealand.

• Software Evaluation and Recognition Program (SERP) Cycle 2014, Canada.

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Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 on Non-shared Drives with Different Node Configuration

When you upgrade a master gateway node from Informatica 9.6.0 to 9.6.1 HotFix 2 that runs on a non-shared network drive and make changes to the node configuration, an error appears that master gateway node has already been upgraded.

Workaround: Ignore the error and continue the upgrade process.

When the error appears again, copy the siteKey file from the following location: <Current Informatica Installation Directory>\isp\config\secret and paste the file in the following location <untarred installation files>\source\isp\config\secret

If you are upgrading a Kerberos domain, you must copy additional files.

Copy the node keytab file, webapp_http.keytab, and Adminconsole.keytab from the following location: <Current Informatica Installation Directory>\isp\config\secret and paste the files to the following location: <untarred installation files>\source\isp\config\secretCopy the file krb.conf the following location: <Current Informatica Installation Directory>\services\shared\security and paste the files in the following location <untarred installation files>\services\shared\security

After you copy the files, ignore the error and continue with the upgrade process.

(CR409096)

Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 SSL Domain on Non-Shared Network Drive

When you upgrade an Informatica 9.6.0 SSL domain to Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 2 with a different configuration option, the installer fails to ping the domain during upgrade even when the domain is available.

Workaround: Continue the installation. After the installation is complete, go to the following location: <Informatica installation directory>\isp\bin and run the following command: infasetup.bat updategatewaynode -nk -nt -dbtl(CR409102)

Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 Custom SSL Domain

When you upgrade an Informatica 9.6.0 custom SSL domain to Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 2 with a different configuration option, the installer fails to ping the domain during upgrade even when the domain is available.

Workaround: Ignore the error and continue the installation.

(CR409702)

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Upgrade from Informatica 9.6.0 in Silent Mode

Silent upgrade from informatica 9.6.0 to Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 2 fails if you installed Informatica 9.6.0 without entering advanced JDBC parameters.

Workaround: Upgrade Informatica 9.6.0 to Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 2 in the console mode or the graphical mode.

(CR407764)

Apply and Roll Back the HotFix

When you apply the hotfix, the installer backs up existing directories, installs the new version of the product, and restores or updates required configuration and run-time files.

Informatica provides separate installers to apply hotfixes to the Informatica services and clients. To apply the Informatica hotfix, perform the following steps:

1. Complete the pre-installation tasks.

2. Apply the hotfix to the Informatica services in graphical, console, or silent mode.

3. Complete the post-installation tasks for the Informatica services.

4. Apply the hotfix to the Informatica clients in graphical or silent mode. If you are applying the hotfix to Informatica Developer, verify that the Informatica client hotfix version matches the Informatica services hotfix version.

Note: If the Informatica client hotfix version does not match the Informatica services hotfix version, Informatica Developer cannot connect to the domain.

After you apply the hotfix, you must run the infacmd isp UpdateGatewayInfo command to enable the fixes for POODLE security vulnerability.

When you roll back a hotfix, the installer restores Informatica to the previously installed version. The installer rolls back the hotfix for the Informatica services and clients at the same time.

To apply the Informatica rollback, perform the following steps:


2. Apply the rollback in graphical, console, or silent mode.

3. Complete the post-installation tasks.

On Windows, you can run the installer in graphical or silent mode. On UNIX, you can run the installer in graphical, console, or silent mode.

Applying the Informatica HotFix

If you accidentally perform the rollback instead of applying the hotfix, you must cancel the rollback and run the installer again to apply the hotfix.

If you accidentally perform the rollback instead of applying the hotfix, the following message appears when you click Install at the Pre-Installation Summary page:

<Informatica Installation Directory>\<server or clients> File/Folder is in use or does not exist.Please close all the processes/applications accessing this folder.

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If you click Previous to return to the installer Welcome page, select Apply the hotfix, and complete the hotfix installation, the installer does not copy the folder and file structure in full, which results in an incomplete hotfix installation.

To work around the issue, exit the installer and start the hotfix installation again.

1. Click OK to close the error message.

2. Click Cancel to quit the installation.

3. Run the install.bat or install.sh command again to perform the hotfix installation.

(CR 335598)

Pre-Installation Tasks

Complete the pre-installation tasks before you apply or roll back a hotfix.

1. Stop all processes that access the installation directory and subdirectories, including command prompts and command line programs.

2. Close the Informatica clients on all machines where you want to apply or roll back the hotfix.

3. Close the Informatica directory and the subdirectories.

4. Stop the Informatica services on all nodes in the domain. For more information about stopping Informatica services, see the Installation and Configuration Guide.

5. If you are applying a hotfix and the machine uses HTTPS to connect to Informatica Administrator, verify that the keystore file is in the default location and that it uses the default file name. The default location for the keystore file is <Informatica Installation Directory>/tomcat/conf. The default file name for the keystore file is Default.keystore.

6. If you are applying a hotfix, back up the repository and warehouse files. These backup files are required if you roll back the hotfix.

• For PowerCenter, PowerExchange adapters, and Data Transformation, back up the PowerCenter repository, Data Analyzer repository, Data Profiling warehouse, and Metadata Manager warehouse. For Data Transformation, also back up the ServiceDB repository.

• For Data Explorer, Data Quality, and Data Services, back up the Model repository and profiling warehouse.

7. If you are applying a hotfix and you have a Metadata Manager Service, back up the Metadata Manager imm.properties file.

8. If you are applying a hotfix and you have a Reporting and Dashboards Service, export the Jaspersoft repository resources. Verify that the default_master.properties file contains valid data.

9. Download the hotfix installation package for your platform.

10. Unzip or untar the contents of the hotfix installation package.

Note: On Windows, the length of the entire installation directory path, including the zip file name, must be 60 characters or fewer. On UNIX, use the native tar or GNU tar command to extract the installer files. The user that runs the installer must have read and write permissions on the directory that contains the installer files and execute permissions on install.sh.

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Applying or Rolling Back the HotFix in Graphical Mode

When you run the installer in graphical mode, a console window opens and runs in the background. If you close this window, the installation stops.


2. Log in to the machine with a system user account. The user account must be the same account used to install the previous version of Informatica services.

3. Close all other applications.

4. Begin the installation from Windows or UNIX.

• To begin the installation on Windows, run install.bat from the root directory where you unzipped or untarred the hotfix installation package.

• To begin the installation on UNIX, use a shell command line to run install.sh from the root directory, and then select the option for graphical mode installation.

5. On the Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 2 page, select Apply HotFix 2 to Informatica 9.6.1, and then click Start.

The Installation Type page appears.

6. Read the terms and conditions of Informatica product usage toolkit and select I agree to the terms and conditions.

Informatica DiscoveryIQ is a product usage tool that sends routine reports on data usage and system statistics to Informatica. Informatica DiscoveryIQ uploads data to Informatica 15 minutes after you install and configure Informatica domain. Thereafter, the domain sends the data every 30 days. You can choose to not send any usage statistics to Informatica. For more information about how to disable sending usage statistics, see Informatica Administrator Guide.

7. Select the hotfix or rollback option.

• To apply a hotfix, select Apply the hotfix, and then click Next.• To roll back a hotfix, select Roll back the hotfix, and then click Next.

The Installation Pre-Requisites page appears.

8. Verify that all requirements are met before you continue the hotfix or rollback, and then click Next.

The Installation Directory page appears.

9. Enter the absolute path for the directory in which the current version of the Informatica services is installed, and then click Next.

The Pre-Installation Summary page appears.

10. Review the installation information, and then click Install to apply or roll back the hotfix.

If you are applying a hotfix, the installer copies the Informatica files to the installation directory. If you are rolling back a hotfix, the installer removes the last hotfix and restores Informatica to the previous version.The Post-Installation Summary page appears, indicating whether the hotfix or rollback completed successfully.

11. Verify that the hotfix or rollback completed successfully.


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Applying or Rolling Back the HotFix in Console Mode

When you run the installer in console mode, the words Quit and Back are reserved words. Do not use them as input text.

Note: When the installer starts in console mode, it displays a message that it is preparing for silent mode installation. On Solaris, it displays a message that it cannot find the install.bin file. You can ignore these messages.


2. Log in to the machine with a system user account. The user account must be the same account used to install the previous version of Informatica services or client.

3. Close all other applications.

4. On a shell command line, run the install.sh file located in the root directory.

The installer displays a message to verify that the locale environment variables are set.

5. Verify that the environment variables are set.

• If the environment variables are not set, enter N to exit the installer and set them as required.

• If the environment variables are set, enter Y to continue.

6. Enter 3 to apply or roll back the hotfix.

7. Specify whether to apply or roll back the hotfix.

• Enter 1 to apply the hotfix.

• Enter 2 to roll back the hotfix.

8. Read the terms and conditions of Informatica product usage toolkit and press 2 to continue the installation.Informatica DiscoveryIQ is a product usage tool that sends routine reports on data usage and system statistics to Informatica. Informatica DiscoveryIQ uploads data to Informatica 15 minutes after you install and configure Informatica domain. Thereafter, the domain sends the data every 30 days. You can choose to not send any usage statistics to Informatica. For more information about how to disable sending usage statistics, see Informatica Administrator Guide.

9. Review the system requirements and pre-installation tasks. Verify that all installation requirements are met before you continue applying or rolling back the hotfix.

10. Press Enter.

11. Enter the absolute path for the directory in which the current version of the Informatica services is installed or press Enter to use the default directory.

The directory names in the path must not contain spaces or the following special characters: @|* $ # ! % ( ){ } [ ] , ; '

12. Press Enter.

13. Review the installation information, and press Enter to apply or roll back the hotfix.

If you are applying a hotfix, the installer copies the Informatica files to the installation directory. If you are rolling back a hotfix, the installer removes the last hotfix and restores Informatica to the previous version.



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Applying or Rolling Back the HotFix in Silent Mode

To apply the hotfix in silent mode, create the SilentInput.properties file and then run the installer with the file.Informatica provides a sample properties file, called SilentInput_hotFix.properties, that includes the parameters that are required by the installer. The following example shows the contents of the file:

########################################################### Informatica Installer Build details# Copyright (c) Informatica Corporation 1998 - 2014# This software contains confidential and proprietary# information of Informatica Corporation# All Rights Reserved. ##########################################################

# Use the following guidelines when editing this file:# * Any error condition that leads to failure, such as an invalid installation # directory, generates a log file SYSTEM_DRIVE_ROOT. For example: # c:\silentErrorLog.log

######### *INSTALL_TYPE - Set this value to '0' to apply the hotfix. Set this value to '1' to roll back the hotfix.

INSTALL_TYPE=0

# * The USER_INSTALL_DIR variable must point to a valid 9.6.1 directory with write# permissions enabled.

USER_INSTALL_DIR=c:\Informatica\9.6.1The properties file is the same for both the Informatica services hotfix and Informatica client hotfix.


2. Go to the root of the directory that contains the installation files.

3. Locate the SilentInput_HotFix.properties file.

4. Back up the file before you modify it.

5. Use a text editor to open the file and modify the values. The following table describes the installation properties that you can modify:

Property Name Description

INSTALL_TYPE Indicates whether to apply the hotfix or roll back the hotfix. If the value is 0, the installer applies the hotfix to the current Informatica installation. If the value is 1, the installer rolls back the current hotfix.

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Property Name Description

USER_INSTALL_DIR Directory for the Informatica installation on which to apply or roll back the hotfix.To apply the hotfix to the Informatica services, enter the absolute path for the directory in which the current version of the Informatica services is installed.To apply the hotfix to the Informatica clients, enter the absolute path for the directory in which the current version of the Informatica clients is installed.To roll back the hotfix, enter the absolute path for the directory in which the current version of the Informatica services or clients is installed.

ENABLE_USAGE_COLLECTION Enables Informatica DiscoveryIQ, a product usage tool that sends routine reports on data usage and system statistics to Informatica. Informatica DiscoveryIQ uploads data to Informatica 15 minutes after you install and configure Informatica domain. Thereafter, the domain sends the data every 30 days. You can choose to not send any usage statistics to Informatica. For more information about how to disable sending usage statistics, see Informatica Administrator Guide.You must set the value to 1 to apply the hotfix.

6. Save the properties file with the name SilentInput.properties.

7. Open a command window.

8. Go to root of the server or client installer directory.

9. Verify that the directory contains the SilentInput.properties file that you edited and saved.

10. Double-click the silentInstallHotFix.bat file to apply or roll back the hotfix.

If you are applying a hotfix, the installer copies the Informatica files to the installation directory. If you are rolling back a hotfix, the installer removes the last hotfix and restores the previous version of Informatica.



Post-Installation Tasks

Complete the post-installation tasks after you apply a hotfix:

• If you are applying a hotfix and the machine uses HTTPS to connect to Informatica Administrator, verify that the Default.keystore file is in the following default location for the keystore file: <Informatica Installation Directory>/tomcat/conf. If the Default.keystore file is not in the default location, stop the Informatica services, copy the file from the backup location to the default location, and then restart the Informatica services.

• Reconfigure pmimpprocess in the following directory: <Informatica Installation Directory>\server\bin. For more information about configuring pmimpprocess, see the Informatica Application Services Guide.

• If you are applying the hotfix to Informatica Developer or Data Transformation Studio, log off the Windows machine and then log back in to complete the system configurations.

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• If you have a Reporting and Dashboards Service, upgrade the Jaspersoft repository contents.

• If you are upgrading PowerCenter, you must register the plug-in for PowerExchange for Hadoop again. Use the Administrator tool or the pmrep RegisterPlugin command to register the plug-in.

• If you use Metadata Manager, perform the following tasks:

1. Disable the Metadata Manager Service from the Administrator tool, and then upgrade the service. To upgrade a service in the Administrator tool, click Manage > Upgrade in the header area.

2. Enable the Metadata Manager Service.

3. If you installed the Metadata Manager Agent separately, uninstall and reinstall the Metadata Manager Agent. For information about installing the Metadata Manager Agent, see the Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

4. Reload any Informatica Platform resource that includes HDFS data objects. When you reload the resource, Metadata Manager adds a class and icon for HDFS data objects to differentiate them from flat file data objects.

5. Reload all PowerCenter resources so that Metadata Manager updates the views in the PowerCenter repository from which it extracts metadata.

• If you reload a profile model after you upgrade from version 9.5.0, the foreign key inference option for enterprise discovery Use top ranked keys is incorrectly set to -5 instead of 1. You must change the Use top ranked keys value to 1 and perform enterprise discovery. (CR 324819)

Before You Upgrade the Application Services

Viewing the Data Integration Service Components that Require an Upgrade

If you upgrade the domain and then view the Data Integration Service components that require an upgrade before you upgrade any other application services, the Administrator tool incorrectly lists the components that require an upgrade. The service upgrade wizard and the actions menu for the Data Integration Service list the SQL Service and Web Service modules as requiring an upgrade. However, the SQL Service and Web Service modules do not require an upgrade when upgrading to version 9.6.1 HotFix 2.

To work around the issue, upgrade the Model Repository Service, and then view the Data Integration Service components that require an upgrade. After the Model Repository Service is upgraded, the service upgrade wizard and the actions menu for the Data Integration Service list the correct Data Integration Service components that require an upgrade.

(CR 390722)

Upgrading a Data Integration Service

If you run the Model Repository Service and Data Integration Service upgrade commands consecutively in a batch file, the upgrade of the Data Integration Service fails.

To work around the issue, add a small time delay between the service upgrade commands.

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(CR 376882)

Uninstallation of PowerCenter Client and Data Transformation Studio

If you try to uninstall PowerCenter client and Data Transformation Studio and the installation contains only these two tools, several files are not removed from the machine.

Workaround: Run the uninstaller to remove PowerCenter client and then run the uninstaller a second time to remove Data Transformation Studio.

(CR409341)

POODLE Vulnerability Fixed in Informatica DomainThe SSL 3.0 POODLE vulnerability affects Informatica 9.6.x server-side and client-side components. The vulnerability affects secure communication within the Informatica domain between services and between services and client applications.

In version 9.6.1 HotFix 2, Informatica took the following steps to address POODLE:

• Disabled the SSL 3.0 protocol in Informatica libraries

• Updated the OpenSSL libraries packaged with Informatica products to include support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV

After applying HotFix 2, disable SSL 3.0 support for database connections.

If the Informatica domain runs on a platform that uses the IBM SDK, such as AIX or zLinux, update the IBM SDK.

Disable SSL 3.0 for Database Connections

You must disable SSL 3.0 support for database connections.

If the Informatica domain uses one or more of the following drivers or adapters, verify that SSL 3.0 is disabled:

• DataDirect JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers shipped with Informatica

• Application adapters shipped with Informatica

• Native database connectors

JDBC and ODBC Drivers

POODLE affects the following DataDirect JDBC and ODBC drivers shipped with Informatica:

• DB2

• Greenplum

• Redshift

• PostgreSQL

• MySQL

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• OpenEdge

• Oracle Client

• Oracle Wire Protocol

• SQL Server Legacy

• SQL Server Wire Protocol

• Sybase

• Salesforce

• Teradata Client

To block SSL 3.0 support for DataDirect socket based Connect for JDBC drivers except for Salesforce, include the following setting in the connection string:

CryptoProtocolVersion=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2If there is an existing CryptoProtoColVersion specified, overwrite it.

DataDirect client-based ODBC drivers rely on the SSL implementation in the database's client libraries. For more information about how to disable SSL 3.0 support for your database, refer to the documentation for your database.

Informatica Application Adapters

Refer to the information for the application adapters in the domain:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter

No action needed.

PowerExchange for Salesforce.com Adapter

For information about PowerExchange for Salesforce.com, see the Informatica Customer Advisory for Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce.com sessions connecting to Salesforce.com: https://mysupport.informatica.com/docs/DOC-13028

Informatica does not support SSL connections for other application adapters.

Native Connectors

Refer to the information for the native connectors in the domain:

MS SQL Server

For information about how to disable SSL 3.0 support for Windows for server software, see the following information from Microsoft: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/3009008

IBM DB2

For information about how to disable SSL 3.0 support for IBM DB2, see the following information from IBM: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_9.7.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.config.doc/doc/r0053616.html?cp=SSEPGG_9.7.0%2F2-2-6-6-76

Oracle

For information about how to disable SSL 3.0 support for Oracle database connectors, see the following information from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/poodlecve-2014-3566-2339408.html

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HTTPS://MYSUPPORT.INFORMATICA.COM/DOCS/DOC-13028

HTTPS://MYSUPPORT.INFORMATICA.COM/DOCS/DOC-13028

HTTPS://TECHNET.MICROSOFT.COM/EN-US/LIBRARY/SECURITY/3009008

HTTP://WWW-01.IBM.COM/SUPPORT/KNOWLEDGECENTER/SSEPGG_9.7.0/COM.IBM.DB2.LUW.ADMIN.CONFIG.DOC/DOC/R0053616.HTML?CP=SSEPGG_9.7.0/2-2-6-6-76

HTTP://WWW-01.IBM.COM/SUPPORT/KNOWLEDGECENTER/SSEPGG_9.7.0/COM.IBM.DB2.LUW.ADMIN.CONFIG.DOC/DOC/R0053616.HTML?CP=SSEPGG_9.7.0/2-2-6-6-76

HTTP://WWW.ORACLE.COM/TECHNETWORK/TOPICS/SECURITY/POODLECVE-2014-3566-2339408.HTML

HTTP://WWW.ORACLE.COM/TECHNETWORK/TOPICS/SECURITY/POODLECVE-2014-3566-2339408.HTML

Other Native Connectors

For information about how to disable SSL 3.0 support for native connectors for other databases, see the documentation for the database.

Update the IBM SDK

For operating systems that use the IBM SDK, such as AIX or zLinux, you must update IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition in addition to applying HotFix 2.

For more information about how to update the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, see the following information from IBM: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688165

Informatica Version 9.6.1 HotFix 2

Informatica Domain Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)

Review the Release Notes of previous releases for information about previous fixed limitations.

The following table describes fixed limitations:

CR Description

405433 The SSL3 vulnerability known as POODLE affected secure communication within the Informatica domain between services, services and client applications, and Informatica products and databases.

403807 The following error message appears multiple times in the JSF log when you disconnect from the Model Repository Service:[com.informatica.pcsf.servicesframework.service.impl.ServiceRequestHandler] [JSF_0046] Failed to send a heartbeat reply to a client.

400184 The infacmd isp migrateUsers command fails during user permission migration for the Model Repository Service.

400174 The infacmd oie commands fail in single sign-on mode on a domain that uses Kerberos authentication.

400088 The infacmd oie commands fail if you run them from the command line utilities on a domain that uses Kerberos authentication. The commands display the following error message:Failed to connect to domain due to [[DTF_0020] The [DomainService] Service failed to authenticate the user with the error message [[KAM_0001] Cannot get credential to authenticate the user because [com.ibm.security.krb5.internal.RealmException, status code: 0 message: Cannot find default realm].].].

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CR Description

398954 If user migration lasts more than 30 minutes, the infacmd isp migrateUsers command displays the following error message:Exception when handling migration of OS Profile(s) because of : [CCM_10585] The Service Manager received an authorization request that did not contain a credential.

398004 The security domains that you specify in the user migration file for the infacmd isp migrateUsers command are case sensitive.

388573 When the Service Manager syncs users and groups with a service, users who belong to the Administrator group lose administrator privileges.

Informatica Domain Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)

The following table describes known limitations:

CR Description

417209 Search Service fails to index projects that contain B2B objects on Windows 64-bit and UNIX operating systems.

410209 If an Informatica domain uses Kerberos authentication, a smart card user who did not create the domain cannot log in to the Administrator tool on a machine that has two-factor authentication enabled.

409238 Service names that contain special characters do not appear correctly in the domain report.

409018 When you generate node diagnostics, the following message appears in catalina.out:Logging to file csmagent<host name>.xmlPlease send the output file to Informatica Technical Support.You can ignore this message.

407846 When you update an application, but do not modify LDOs contained in the application, the Data Integration Service fails to disable cache refresh and to preserve the cache table.

PowerCenter Closed Enhancements (9.6.1 HotFix 2)

The following table describes closed enhancement requests:

CR Description

347105 When you upgrade from a hotfix or a base version of the current PowerCenter release, the upgrade operation includes the AD50.cfg configuration file. The AD50.cfg file contains the properties that the PowerCenter Integration Service uses to run address validation mappings. You do not need to reconfigure the file after you upgrade. The upgrade operation copies the AD50.cfg file from the version that you upgrade and creates an empty configuration file named AD50.cfg.bak.

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PowerCenter Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)



CR Description

408307 A session with REG_REPLACE() function in Unicode mode takes a long time to run in version 9.5.1 HF4 compared to 9.1 HF5.

407510 The Designer shuts down unexpectedly when you close the custom transformation that you just created.

402827 The PowerCenter Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly when you run a workflow with a parameter file that contains a long value for a numeric data type.

402344 When you connect to the PowerCenter Repository Service in exclusive mode where the user is part of the administrator group, the connection fails.

402098 When you copy workflows, sessions, and connections into the target repository for a non administrator user, the PowerCenter Repository Service shuts down unexpectedly.

401731 Failed to assign new service level to the workflow without restarting the PowerCenter Integration Service.

401439 When you pass binary data through an SQL transformation, the output contains NULL characters.

401396 After you upgrade from version 9.1 to 9.6.1, session on grid with dynamic partition enabled shuts down unexpectedly when the reject and output files are parameterized.

401364 After you create a repository on Sybase 15.5 or Sybase 15.7, some Expression functions are no longer listed under All functions but appear under the Data Cleansing folder.

401127 pmrep objectimport command fails with the REP_51459 write intent lock out error.

400761 When the field ID in the source object version added to deployment is different from that of the latest version of the deployed object, the mapping and mapplet links or ports are missing after deployment.

400474 The Repository Manager on a non-Kerberos machine shuts down unexpectedly when connecting to a Kerberos domain.

400315 Session on grid with dynamic partition enabled shuts down unexpectedly if the output file name is parameterized.

400213 A masking rule converts a single empty space to a null value. This can generate an error when the masked column does not contain a null value.

400081 Temporary folders do not empty when a data generation workflow fails.

399818 When an object name in the PowerCenter repository contains a quotation mark (") or percent sign (%), the following commands fail:- infacmd isp migrateUsers- pmrep AssignPermission- pmrep ChangeOwner

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CR Description

399124 A substitution masking session with storage encryption fails when unencrypted values exist in the storage tables.

397704 When you load a single row to an SAP HANA target, the session continues to run even after the PowerCenter Integration Service has written the row to the target.

397639 When you fetch a workflow log using infacmd command or any client that uses the PowerCenter Integration Service, the master gateway shuts down.

394990 When you view a Web Services Hub URL with Internet Explorer 11 and the URL contains a fully qualified domain name, you get a message indicating that the browser version is not supported.

385758 In bulk mode, the PowerCenter Integration Service writes timestamp subsecond values as zeroes to Oracle targets.

381086 When converting date to timestamp and timestamp to date, the getLong API converts the values incorrectly.

376244 After you save changes to a session and run the session again, an incorrect session log appears for previous runs in the Workflow Monitor. This issue occurs when the session log is saved by the number of runs.

365415 Authentication of multiple new users in protected web services takes a long time.

PowerCenter Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

410461 When you import a text data type column from an SAP HANA source or target, the Designer imports the column with the precision as 0.Workaround: Edit the precision manually.

408333 Workflows fail when the workflows contain Lookup, Joiner, Sorter, Rank and Aggregator transformations having NULL cache values.Workaround: Set the cache size to Auto.

406944 The Designer sometimes shuts down unexpectedly when you import a WSDL file with the array type as float.

406377 When you map a string column in a source to a double column in a target and use an ODBC connection to run the session, the PowerCenter Integration Service writes the string values as zero in the target instead of rejecting the rows. This issue occurs for Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB databases.

406214 You cannot fetch Web Services Hub Service reports by using Web Services APIs such as getstats or gettopstats.

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CR Description

404867 When you run the script containing multiple pmrep commands where one of the pmrep commands contains the hash (#) symbol in the middle of the command, the PowerCenter Repository Service fails to run the pmrep Run command using the -f option for all the commands.Workaround: Place the hash symbol at the start of the pmrep command that you want to skip while the PowerCenter Repository Service runs the script. Alternatively, you can remove the hash symbol (#) to run all the pmrep commands in the script.

404004 Sessions shut down unexpectedly when all of the following conditions are true:- You map a float column in an Informix or Microsoft SQL Server source to a small float column in an Informix target.- The source data is of a higher precision than the precision of the small float column in the target.- The Informix target database version is 11.5 or 12.10.

401756 On Linux 64-bit and Solaris 64-bit operating systems, the ConnectionRetryCount and ConnectionRetryDelay configuration parameters in the ODBC.ini file fails when you use an ODBC connection against Microsoft SQL Server.Workaround: For more information, see DataDirect case number: 00287682

PowerCenter Third-Party Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)

The following table describes third-party known limitations:

CR Description

410495 On AIX operating systems, when you enable secure communication to an SAP HANA database with the SSL protocol, sessions shut down unexpectedly.SAP ticket reference number: 0001101086

Big Data Edition Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)



CR Description

406537 A mapping that contains a Joiner transformation and a Lookup transformation fails to run in the Hive environment.

403576 The Data Integration Service fails to push a mapping to the Hive environment if the mapping contains many SQL overrides and Joiner transformations.

401248 When you run a mapping that contains non-ASCII characters and Custom transformations in the Hive environment, the Data Integration Service drops rows that contain non-ASCII characters if it creates standalone DTM processes for the Custom transformation.

399705 The Data Integration Service fails to push down a mapping that contains an HDFS source, a Data Masking transformation, and an HDFS target to the Hive environment.

398703 Files and directories are not removed from the hive.exec.scratchdir directory after the mapping logic is pushed down to the Hive environment.

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CR Description

409976 When you run a mapping with a JDBC source and target in Hive environment, the mapping fails in Hortonworks version 2.2 with the following error in the job logs:2015-01-13 17:23:08,919 INFO [IPC Server handler 5 on 50241] org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskAttemptListenerImpl: Diagnostics report from attempt_1421061665984_0216_m_000000_0: Error: java.io.IOException: Mapping execution failed with the following error: ODL_26128 Database error encountered in connection object [insplash_stghdlr_base] with the following error message: [The Data Integration Service could not find the run-time OSGi bundle for the adapter [com.informatica.adapter.infajdbc.InfaJDBCConnectInfo] for the operating system [LINUX]. Copy the adapter run-time OSGi bundle and verify that you have set the correct library name in the plugin.xml file

409922 Mapping validation errors occur when you validate a mapping that has complex data types in the Hive environment.Workaround: Run the mapping in the native environment.

409350 User impersonation for a mapping with a Hive source in the native environment fails when a value is added to the property that enables another user to run mappings in the native environment.Workaround: Do not configure user impersonation for the mapping and then run the mapping in the native environment.

408827 When you perform a data preview for a mapping that has a Hive, HBase, HDFS, or complex file source and is configured for user impersonation the Data Integration Service uses the SPN of the Data Integration Service user to perform the data preview.

405008 When a data domain discovery profile runs as a part of enterprise discovery on Cloudera CDH 5.2, the profile fails with a run-time error.Workaround: Run the profile in the Native run-time environment, Cloudera CDH 5.0 distribution, or Pivotal distribution.

404378 If you run an enterprise discovery profile, data domain discovery fails when the following conditions are true:- The data domain discovery profile runs as a part of enterprise discovery in the Hive environment.- You do not have the read permission on the data source.

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Big Data Edition Third-Party Limitations

The following table describes a third-party limitation:

CR Description

410437 If the user name or password for a target IBM DB2 table is more than eight characters, the mapping fails to run in the Hive environment and the following error appears in the Hadoop cluster logs:Caused by: java.io.IOException: Mapping execution failed with the following error: WRT_8001 Error connecting to database... WRT_8001 [Session Write_EMP_OUT5_MAPPING_3285816766724683 Username test_it2 DB Error -1 [IBM][CLI Driver] SQL30082N Security processing failed with reason "24" ("USERNAME AND/OR PASSWORD INVALID"). SQLSTATE=08001 Workaround: Verify that the IBM DB2 database user name and password is less than eight characters.

Informatica Analyst Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)



CR Description

408940 The Analyst tool does not identify the source of data in data lineage if the following conditions are true:- You use an exported scorecard as a resource file in Metadata Manager.- The scorecard uses lookup values from a relational source.

403279 The Analyst Service shuts down unexpectedly on AIX when you import a flat file.

403140 When you run a profile on data from Microsoft SQL Server, sampling results that display a large number of rows might not appear properly.

402982 Drill-down on profile results from an IBM DB2 version previous to 9.7 fails with SQL errors.

402747 When the ownership of a Human task passes from one user to another user, the task might disappear from the Inbox of the current owner.

401931 When you import a PowerExchange Datamap to the Analyst tool, the Analyst tool does not show the copybook name in the path in the object properties.

401457 When you sort the data in an unmanaged reference table and you perform multiple search operations, the second or later search operation returns incorrect results. The issue arises when you search for a string value and you close and open the reference table between the search operations.

400552 When you create one or more clusters in a cluster task, the Analyst tool might display the most recent cluster and hide older clusters. The issue arises when you change the task status after you create the clusters and you select the task in a different Analyst tool session.

400401 When you run a column profile on an Oracle data source that contains a column with a documented date data type, the profile results incorrectly infer the column data type as datetime instead of date.

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CR Description

400353 The Analyst tool returns a blank job status page when the following conditions are true:- The domain has more than one gateway node.- The host names for the domain and Analyst tool have fully qualified domain names.- The master gateway node running the Analyst tool is restarted. The Analyst tool shuts down and restarts on the

same node, but the master gateway node is switched to different node.- You enter a fully qualified domain name in the Analyst tool URL, such as such as machine1.informatica.com:8085/

analyst.

400057 A rule statement displays "current date/time" in English in a Japanese locale.

399607 Some of the profile comments appear truncated.

399187 You cannot scroll up and down the input data that you use to test a rule specification.

399170 The Analyst tool cannot display a multi-byte user name in the Analyst tool header. As a result, the user cannot log out of the Analyst tool.

399162 The Analyst tool displays a blank job status page when the Analyst service runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance.

398800 A rule statement in a rule specification displays no input for an action when you configure the action in the following ways:- You add two inputs to the action.- You do not specify a value for the second input.

398555 You cannot update a rule statement and change the position of the rule statement in a rule set in a single operation.

398378 The Analyst tool displays the users that you import from LDAP under the native domain in the Glossary Security workspace.

398018 The Analyst tool cannot display the data rows in a Human task instance that reads data from one of the following databases:- IBM DB2 9.5 with security mechanism enabled- IBM DB2 9.7- IBM DB2 with BLU acceleration

397610 When you run a column profile with the data domain discovery option in the Hortonworks Data Platform Hadoop environment, the profile run fails with the following error:FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10007]: Ambiguous column reference a2

397128 You cannot save a rule specification that previously used a reference table that you deleted from the Model repository. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- Before you deleted the reference table, you configured the condition and the action in a rule statement to read the

reference table.- After you deleted the reference table, you updated the rule statement to read a current reference table.

392903 The Analyst tool does not save the retirement date for a synonym when the browser is set to a non-English locale.

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CR Description

392440 You cannot create or edit a business term, category, policy, or business initiative if the template contains a blank section.

391725 The Analyst tool can generate an error when you update and save a rule specification that you moved from another folder to the current folder.

Informatica Analyst Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

410454 If the Informatica domain runs on Windows and the domain uses the default SSL certificates for secure communication, the Analyst tool Job Status workspace is not displayed on Internet Explorer.Workaround: In Internet Explorer, select Show content in the certificate error dialog box. If the dialog box does not appear, verify the security settings for the browser.

410354 When you relate a business term in Metadata Manager to a PowerCenter reusable object, the number of asset links which the Analyst tool displays in the business term does not match the number of links in the related catalog objects in Metadata Manager.

409928 The user interface buttons and the scroll bar in the Analyst tool Job Status workspace are not active in Microsoft Internet Explorer version 9 when the browser runs in compatibility mode.Workaround: Run Internet Explorer 9 in standard mode.

408972 The Analyst tool fails to connect to a MapR cluster with the binaries from the services/shared/Hadoop/mapr_3.1 assembly.Workaround: To connect with a hive connection from MAPR, use the following Analyst tool binaries: services/shared/Hadoop/cloudera_cdh5u2 assembly.

408559 The Analyst tool returns an error when you run a column profile on a mapping specification that has an HDFS source.

408491 The Analyst tool exports incorrect data for Microsoft SQL Server datetime2 data type from a mapping specification to a flat file.

408350 The Data Preview tab of the Analyst tool shows incorrect results for the datetime2 data type when the domain of the Analyst Service is in a different time zone than the Analyst tool client.

404847 If you apply a mapplet rule based on an integer or datetime column to a source column of the string data type, the Analyst tool generates a run-time error message.

404427 When you save a Glossary asset, the Analyst tool does not verify that you enter a mandatory value for a multi-value custom property.

402607 The Analyst tool displays an error when you edit a newly added property that contains special characters, such as # % & && < > ?, in the name.Workaround: Do not use special characters when you name a custom property.

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CR Description

399854 If a user opens the Analyst tool from the URL in the Administrator tool, the user must log in again.

399754 You cannot view the records in a Human task if you open the Analyst tool in Internet Explorer 9 and the browser runs in compatibility mode.Workaround: Run Internet Explorer 9 in standard mode.

Informatica Data Quality Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)



CR Description

401138 The MappingExecutor.setMapping method in the Data Quality Software Development Kit is not thread-safe.

395905 Spanish accelerator rules that validate personal identification data can drop rows from the output data when one of the following conditions is true:- The identification data contains lowercase characters.- The identification data contains characters in a nonstandard position.

Informatica Data Quality Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix2)


CR Description

410191 A mapping that reads a probabilistic model or a classifier model fails on a z/Linux operating system. The issue arises because the Informatica installation contains redundant Java archive files on z/Linux systems.To work around the issue, perform the following steps:1. Shut down the Informatica node on the z/Linux machine.2. Browse to the /server/bin/javalib directory in the Informatica installation.3. In the /javalib directory, find the files with the following names:

- runtime*.jar- collections*.jar- exceptionframework*.jar

4. If differently numbered versions of the files exist, delete the files with a lower version number. For example, delete runtime-804.jar and runtime-806.jar. Do not delete runtime-807.jar.

5. Start the Informatica node.

Informatica Data Services Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


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CR Description

405538 When you enable row level security for a virtual table in an Informatica SQL data service and you enable column level security for one of the columns in the same virtual table, the Data Integration Service displays the following error message:Access on column [FIELD] was denied. Check the column permissions

395425 The http version of the Data Viewer truncates column names and data from the virtual table in the Informatica SQL data service.

Informatica Data Services Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

4107916

In a TLS enabled domain, you cannot restrict JAVA client programs with SSLv3 protocol to connect to HTTPS Data Integration Service.

Informatica Developer Closed Enhancements (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

404668 The locality data ports on the Address Validator transformation can accommodate locality names up to 100 characters in length.

Informatica Developer Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)



CR Description

409298 You cannot use a parameter to specify the match threshold score in a Match transformation.

409242 When you run REST Consumer transformation with multiple records and the output mapping contains only custom ports without method definition, the values passed to the URL and header ports are incorrectly appended to each request.

407900 A domain user cannot synchronize an object in the Developer tool after the user imports the object into a project. The synchronization fails with a message that the user does not have write permission on the object.

406479 Identity match analysis fails for data records that require a large number of index key values.

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CR Description

406049 A data preview fails after you add a column to a database table and synchronize the physical data object.

405346 If you run a profile on a mapping or mapplet object and cancel the profile run before its completion, the Data Integration Service does not purge the profile rows from the profiling warehouse.

405167 When you change a Match transformation configuration from single-source identity analysis to dual-source identity analysis, the transformation does not update the port configuration.

404820 If you import an application that contains a Parser transformation to a Model repository, the import operation might delete output ports from the transformation. The issue arises when you import an application more than once to the same folder.

403716 The filter condition in a mapping specification generates a wrong date if the following conditions are true:- You imported an Oracle source that has a column of the Date data type.- You create a mapping specification on the source and added a filer condition that includes the Date column.- You ran a profile on the mapping specification.

403196 In an Informatica version 9.6.1 Hive environment, an Aggregator transformation loses high precision in expression results.

403195 When you preview data from Microsoft SQL Server, sample data might contain erroneous characters and incorrect data.

403140 When you run a profile on data from Microsoft SQL Server, sampling results which display a large number of rows might not appear properly.

401907 When you add a label to a probabilistic model, the Developer tool does not display the current number of labels in the model.

401420 The Data Viewer view fails to preview a mapplet after an upgrade to version 9.6.0 or to version 9.6.1. The following error appears: SQL Error Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0: Conversion failed when converting the varchar value D209839 to data type int.

401375 A match analysis mapping fails when the following conditions are true:- You select the Filter Exact Match option in the Match transformation.- The sequence identifier for a Match transformation input row is greater than the maximum value for a 32-bit integer.

400826 An address validation mapping fails to run when you configure the following options on the Address Validator transformation:- You add pass-through ports to the transformation.- You configure the transformation to run in suggestion list mode.- You select the Complete Address port and the Country Name port from the Multiline group on the transformation.

400250 Non-administrative user accounts are slow to connect to the Model repository service.

400180 When you preview data for the Sequence Generator transformation after updating the transformation properties, the Data Viewer view ignores the updated transformation property values.

400151 The Address Validator transformation cannot validate a single-line address that uses the Country Name port if the transformation does not specify the correct default country.

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CR Description

397610 When you run a column profile with the data domain discovery option in the Hortonworks Data Platform Hadoop environment, the profile run fails with the following error:FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10007]: Ambiguous column reference a2

397099 The Model Repository Service fails to save values entered in the Soap Action field of Web Service Consumer transformation.

396750 The REPLACESTR() function fails in the Decision transformation when the input data value contains more than 512 characters.

396729 An address validation mapping fails and causes the Data Integration Service to stop unexpectedly when the following conditions are true:- The input address contains an apartment prefix on the first address line.- The first address line does not specify a name or a number for the apartment.

393180 The Data Transformation Manager (DTM) instance fails when you preview data in a Normalizer transformation under the following conditions:- The Normalizer transformation contains a multi-occurring record.- The record contains a field that is the same datatype as another field that occurs below the record in the Normalizer

input hierarchy.

391745 The Developer tool might raise an error if you create multiple probabilistic models from a single data object in a single session.

385758 In bulk mode, the Data Integration Service writes timestamp subsecond values as zeroes to Oracle targets.

383814 You cannot append data to a classifier model from a relational data source.

Informatica Developer Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

410593 A dynamic Lookup transformation returns different results when optimization is enabled than when optimization is disabled.

410539 Performance is slow when you preview data from a Hive data object on a Pivotal CF version 1.2 cluster.

409560 If you perform enterprise discovery and one of the profiles fails, the Developer tool indefinitely displays the status of the enterprise discovery profile as Running and failed profile as Queued.

409450 If you upgrade the Informatica domain but do not upgrade the Model repository, and then try to connect to the Model repository, the error message you get is erroneous. The correct error message reads: 'Failed to connect to repository. The repository content for repository service requires an upgrade.'

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CR Description

409021 An identity match mapping fails to run when you configure a Match transformation in the following ways:- You configure the transformation to perform identity match analysis on two sources.- You select more than one pair of input ports on the identity match strategy.

408836 You cannot change a reference table in a Lookup transformation after you initialize it.

408000 If you do not define the input schema or map the request input group element to the root element of REST consumer input, REST fails without displaying an error message.

407604 When adding custom ports, non-reusable REST transformation incorrectly appends new custom ports to deleted custom ports.Workaround: Recreate the transformation.

407145 You cannot export a mapping from the Model repository to PowerCenter when the following conditions are true:- The mapping contains a Parser transformation that you configure for token parsing operations.- You selected and cleared the input ports on the Parser transformation more than once.

406825 When you view a Quick Outline to discover details about the columns in a flat file data object, the options 'Sort by name' and 'Sort by type' are sometimes unavailable on the list of actions.

406377 When you map a string column in a source to a double column in a target and use an ODBC connection to run the session, the Data Integration Service writes the string values as zero in the target instead of rejecting the rows. This issue occurs for Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB databases.

405168 When you change a Match transformation configuration from dual-source identity analysis to single-source identity analysis, the dual-source output ports remain in the transformation.

404848 If you apply a mapplet rule based on an integer column to a source column of the string data type, the Developer tool generates a run-time error message.

Informatica Developer Third-Party Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

410495 On AIX operating systems, when you enable secure communication to an SAP HANA database with the SSL protocol, mappings terminate unexpectedly.SAP ticket reference number: 0001101086

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Informatica Data Transformation Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

CM-7462 If you add a mapplet reference and the RunMapplet action to a Data Processor transformation, the mapplet is not copied to the transformation. If you change or delete the mapplet, the Data Processor transformation is not updated.Workaround: After you change a mapplet, delete the reference to the mapplet. Add a new reference, then update the RunMapplet action.

Metadata Manager Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)



CR Description

404547 When you load a business glossary resource that contains special characters or parentheses in the attribute name, the load fails with an invalid expression error.

403522 Loading a PowerCenter resource stops responding at the parameter parsing task when the resource uses a parameter and the parameter value contains the parameter name, for example: $PMBadFile=$PMBadFileDir\errors.bad

402791 Viewing link details for a PowerCenter resource fails with an "incorrect syntax" SQL exception when the Metadata Manager repository is on Microsoft SQL Server.

401921 Business glossary objects are displayed in a data lineage diagram after recycling the Metadata Manager Service. However, the objects disappear when the diagram is launched after the user that initially launched the diagram logs out.

399718 When you back up a Metadata Manager repository that contains deleted resources and then try to restore the backup file, the restore operation fails if the domain encryption key was changed.

399715 The mmRepoCmd restoreRepository command fails when you use the --numThreads option and specify a number of processing threads.

399713 The mmRepoCmd backupRepository command fails with an internal error when you specify an incorrect domain name and do not specify the gateway host:port.

399712 Metadata Manager tries to create links for Business Glossary resources when the Analyst Service is not running.

399388 When a Business Glossary resource contains thousands of links, linking does not complete and eventually causes an out of memory error.

394553 When a resource contains unqualified column names, the Link Details tab reports invalid links as missing links.

361466 You cannot create Metadata Manager repository contents through the mmcmd createRepository command.

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Metadata Manager Known Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


CR Description

410857 When you run Metadata Manager on AIX, you cannot export or import models or resource configurations that include rule sets.Workaround: To export and import models that include rule sets, use the mmcmd exportModel and importModel commands. To export and import resource configurations that include rule sets, use the mmcmd getResource and createResource commands.

410652 Metadata Manager does not extract the query text for Hive views in Cloudera Navigator resources, and it does not link the views to Hive tables in the data lineage diagram.

410626 When you create a Metadata Manager Service and then create repository contents with the mmRepoCmd createRepository command, the Administrator tool displays the following message, even though no upgrade is required:The repository version [<version>] is incompatible with version [<version>] of the product. An upgrade may be required.Workaround: Restart the Metadata Manager Service. You do not have to upgrade the service.

410483 Asset linking for business glossary resources does not work when the Metadata Manager repository is a case-sensitive Microsoft SQL Server database.

409907 When an HDFS data object is used as a mapping source in an Informatica Platform resource, Metadata Manager does not extract the file name and location for the mapping source instance.

409831 Loading Cloudera Navigator resources that contain tens of thousands of entities can take several hours.

409731 Metadata Manager does not extract target flat files in PowerCenter resources when the session uses an HDFS connection for the target file and Hive Table Name field is empty.

409457 When you view a Cloudera Navigator resource, Metadata Manager displays some orphaned HDFS directories directly under the resource in the Browse tab.

408980 When you relate a business term to a PowerCenter shortcut that is based on a reusable object, the Analyst tool business glossary displays related data assets for the shortcut and each shortcut instance. If you delete the shortcut from the related catalog object in Metadata Manager, then when Metadata Manager updates the relationship information in the Analyst tool business glossary, it deletes the related data asset for the shortcut but not for the shortcut instances.

408950 The mmRepoCmd restoreRepository command does not work when the domain uses Kerberos authentication.

404810 If you configure SSL security protocol for the Metadata Manager application and enter the wrong keystore password, the Metadata Manager Service starts, but the web application URL is not accessible.

Informatica Connector Toolkit Fixed Limitations (9.6.1 HotFix 2)


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CR Description

400248 When you run the importdomainobjects command to import a connection, a deserialization exception occurs.

Informatica Version 9.6.1 HotFix 1

Informatica Domain Closed Enhancements


CR Description

394730 You can bookmark application services on the Domain tab of the Administrator tool.

Informatica Domain Fixed Limitations



CR Description

393643 You cannot enable a disabled user after you add the user to the Default Administrator group.

393009 You cannot use the Administrator tool to remove a disabled user from the Administrator group.

392378 You cannot perform operations on the Metadata Manager Service, Reporting Service, and Reporting and Dashboard Service with Access Informatica Administrator and Manage Service privileges.

391573 If the gateway node runs on HP-UX, when you test the connection after you create or edit an ODBC connection in the Administrator tool, an error message appears even if the connection is successful.

384850 Mappings take a long time to run when the following conditions are true:- The mapping contains multiple Joiner transformations.- The Data Integration Service is on a grid.

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Informatica Domain Known Limitations


CR Description

400330 In the Administrator tool, the following message appears when a non-Administrator user with the Manage Services privilege and Tools privilege views the properties of a Content Management Service:Service option needs to be upgraded.

400149 On the Cloud tab of the Administrator tool, all the properties of an Informatica Cloud Secure Agent do not appear.

400095 The infacmd oie commands fail if you do not use the -sdn option and the domain uses Kerberos authentication.

398995 A Data Integration Service might prompt you to upgrade the Human task database contents every time you restart the service. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- You upgraded a domain that contains more than one Data Integration Service that runs Human tasks.- After you upgraded the domain, you upgraded the contents of a Human task database for another Data Integration

Service.Workaround: When you restart the additional Data Integration Service in the Administrator tool, disregard the prompt.

398285 You cannot start a Data Integration Service on a grid when the following conditions are true:- The Model repository is on a Microsoft SQL Server database.- The Microsoft SQL Server database uses a named instance.- The JDBC URL contains the database instance name and port number.The Data Integration Service fails with the following error:[SQLServer JDBC Driver]Conflicting connection information. When the instance name is specified, it is invalid to specify the port number. Workaround: Remove the port number from the JDBC URL.

397989 The user names that you specify in the user migration file for the infacmd isp migrateUsers command are case sensitive.

396294 When you change a property in a JDBC connection in the Administrator tool and then use the connection, the following error appears:[Informatica][<JDBC driver name>] An invalid password was specified (password length cannot be zero).Workaround: Edit the connection and enter the password again.

299741 When the Domain shuts down, the catalina.out log file contains multiple messages that are not valid for the shutdown. The messages describe conditions that cause memory leaks. You can ignore these messages.

PowerCenter Fixed Limitations


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CR Description

399928 When you access the object version list in the PowerCenter repository, the pmrep PurgeVersion command fails at tpordvec.h (line #95).

399200 When you use different cache sizes for Joiner transformations, the PowerCenter Integration Service duplicates data in the target.

397821 When the SessionExpiryPeriod ends and the Web Services Hub tries to establish the repository connection again, the Web Services Hub shuts down unexpectedly.

395865 After you deploy a deployment group to a non-versioned repository, the date format defined at the source changes.

395647 If the PowerCenter Repository Service fails to respond within the receive reply timeout value of five minutes, the PowerCenter repository clients shut down unexpectedly.

394853 Java transformations that invoke Java expressions consume excessive memory.

394191 Mapping and mapplet links are generated incorrectly after deployment.

393969 Sequence values in a Normalizer transformation change after deployment.

393479 If the domain has secure communication enabled and you have not set the INFA_TRUSTSTORE environment variable on the machine that hosts the command line program, the infacmd commands fail to connect to the domain.

393076 When a user authentication request from the PowerCenter Integration Service to the master gateway node fails after 30 seconds, the status of a scheduled workflow becomes unknown.

392879 When you compile code with an external dependency for the Java transformation, the compilation fails with the following error:Package does not exist.

392804 If the PowerCenter Repository Service process stops responding while workflows are running, the Workflow Monitor shuts down unexpectedly due to an assert in MainFrm.cpp (line # 1992).

392722 A session that contains an identity match mapping fails on a z/Linux operating system.

392268 A single-source identity match mapping that you exported to an older version of PowerCenter fails to run when the following conditions are true:- You exported the mapping to PowerCenter 9.1 HotFix 6 or PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 4.- You upgraded PowerCenter to version 9.6.1, and you ran the mapping in a session on the Solaris platform.

392087 When you use Oracle SQL Loader to load data to an Oracle target, the PowerCenter Integration Service truncates the decimal values in columns of the Number (P, S) data type.

391253 If you use connection environment SQL in an Oracle connection, SQL transformations fail with an error.

391005 The pmrep PurgeVersion command does not list the objects that cannot be purged.

390821 Workflow recovery fails with the following error:The data types varchar and text are incompatible in the equal to operator

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CR Description

389869 An operating system profile cannot read the value of the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

386600 A mapping with a Joiner transformation shuts down with an unexpected condition at wjoiner.cpp (line # 8339).

373455 The OPB_MAP_PERSISVAL repository table has entries for deleted session and workflow run instances.

365919 When the input data has trailing whitespaces, expression masking returns incorrect output.

365415 Authentication of multiple new users in protected web services takes a long time.

362418 The Web Service Hub is initialized with an incorrect value for MaxISConnections.

347846 Exception handling for substitution masking generates unexpected results for null and empty spaces.

PowerCenter Known Limitations


CR Description

400091 You cannot import a single-source identity match mapping to the PowerCenter repository if the Match transformation specifies more than one execution instance.Workaround: In the Developer tool, configure the Match transformation to use a single execution instance. Export the mapping again.

399201 A query on MRX_LDO_SRCCNT view takes time to run on Microsoft SQL Server 2014.

Big Data Edition Fixed Limitations


CR Description

398463 After you run a mapping in the Hive environment, reference tables still appear in the Hive warehouse directory.

394233 The Data Integration Service fails to run a mapping with an HDFS target in the Hive environment on a highly available CDH 5.0 cluster. The Data Integration Service writes a Java exception error in the Data Integration Service log.

392536 Conversion from String to Decimal fails for values with a precision greater than 20 for mappings that run in high precision mode on Cloudera CDH 5.0.

392379 Writing to an IBM DB2 target fails when bulk loading to the IBM DB2 target is enabled for a mapping in the Hive environment.

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CR Description

392047 The mapping fails if the Any function contains decimal values that exceed the default Hive precision and scale for a mapping that runs with high precision mode on Cloudera CDH 5.0.

390156 A mapping in the Hive environment fails when it contains HDFS sources, a Hive target, and Lookup transformations that read from HDFS sources.

386096 A mapping that runs in the Hive environment fails if the IBM DB2 target table distribution key is not connected to a port in the mapping.

Big Data Edition Known Limitations


CR Description

399626 hive.exec.scratchdir does not use the scratch directory for the user specified in the Hive connection. As a result, the mapping fails due to a user permission issue.Workaround: To specify the scratch directory for the user who runs the mapping, use the Advanced Hive/Hadoop Properties in the Hive connection properties

Big Data Edition Third-Party Limitations

The following table describes a third-party limitation:

CR Description

398978 Mapping fails if it uses the Teradata Connector for Hadoop (TDCH) to run on a Hadoop cluster that uses Kerberos authentication.Workaround: Use the kinit command to generate a valid ticket on all the cluster nodes before you run the mapping.

Informatica Analyst Fixed Limitations



CR Description

397792 When you open the Analyst tool from the Analyst tool URL in the Analyst Service, the web page displays a message that states that the page cannot be found.

396113 If you ran a profile on an HDFS source in the Developer tool, you cannot edit the profile or create a scorecard from the profile in the Analyst tool.

393739 When you configure a rule statement with a condition or an action that requires a reference table, you can omit the reference table. If you log out of the Analyst tool and log in again, you cannot open the rule specification that contains the rule statement.

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CR Description

393609 The Analyst tool does not display the score trends for some scorecards with more than one metric.

393549 You cannot replace a reference table in a condition or an action with a reference table from the same project folder as the previous reference table. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- You try to replace a reference table that you deleted from the Model repository.- The reference table appears in either a condition or an action in a rule statement.

393537 If you add a non-string input to a rule specification in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you might find that other rule specification options become unresponsive.

393438 During the import of a Business Glossary 9.6.0 .xlsx file, the Analyst tool displays an error message if the Business Glossary 9.6.0 .xlsx file and the Analyst tool 9.6.1 contain glossaries with the same name.

393107 When a user opens an asset under revision from the Business Glossary Desktop, the Analyst tool might display an error message. The Analyst tool incorrectly opens the draft of the revised asset instead of the latest published version. The user might not have permissions to view drafts.

393049 If you run a column profile on an Oracle data source with a NULL column in the Cloudera Hadoop environment, the profile run fails with an Oracle run-time error.

393020 The Analyst tool does not display the date in the mm/dd/yy format in the Activity section when you perform one of the following tasks:- Create a custom date type property.- Specify an open date and a close date for a synonym.- Specify an open date and a close date for a business initiative.

392903 The Analyst tool does not save the retirement date for a synonym when the browser is set to a non-English locale.

392649 The Job Status option in the Analyst tool shows a panel that is not valid when the following conditions are true:- The node running the Analyst service is restarted and the node is no longer the master gateway node.- The Analyst tool is configured to use HTTPS.

392327 The Analyst tool can take five minutes or longer to test a complex rule specification. When you test the rule specification multiple times, the tests can take longer each time. The issue can arise when the rule specification reads multiple reference tables.

392270 When you compile a rule specification, the Analyst tool does not perform a case-sensitive analysis of the mapplet names that you create. The Analyst tool does not recognize mapplets with the same names as other mapplets in the project folder if the mapplets use a different character case.

391999 When you edit the data domain discovery settings of a column profile in the Edit Profile dialog box, all the tabs except Data Domain Discovery remain disabled if you select or clear some columns before the dialog box displays all the data domains.

391876 When you drag rule sets from one parent to another in a rule specification, the rule sets can become hidden behind each other.

391870 After you upgrade to version 9.6.1, an inferred and approved foreign key column in an enterprise discovery profile might not appear as an approved column.

390526 Business glossary import fails if the exported .xlsx file does not have borders.

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CR Description

389887 If you use different folders to save a rule specification and to compile a rule specification, the Analyst tool might generate an error after a save operation. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- A rule statement in the rule specification reads a reference table from a folder in a Model repository project.- You select a different reference table in the rule statement between save operations.

389188 If you update and save a rule specification that you compiled into a mapplet, you might invalidate the mapplet. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- The rule specification uses a reference table, and you select a different reference table after you compile the rule

specification.- You save the rule specification that you update, but you do not compile the rule specification.

389002 The Analyst tool displays the scores for the only metric in a metric group and metric group as 100 instead of 99.99 when the data source has at least one record that is not valid.

388966 In the column profile results, you cannot sort the value frequencies and data types based on the frequency percentage.

388761 You can configure a rule specification with duplicate rule set names.

388614 When you create or edit a column profile with the data domain discovery option, the Profile wizard takes a long time to display the list of available data domains that you can include in the profile run.

373713 A rule statement displays the configuration options "null" and "case sensitive" in English in a non-English-language locale.

Informatica Analyst Known Limitations


CR Description

400783 You cannot create a mapping specification with a target based on a PowerExchange adapter. The Analyst tool generates an exception.

399854 If a user opens the Analyst tool from the URL in the Administrator tool, the user must log in again.

399220 When you test a rule specification, the Analyst tool might not display validation errors that apply to the rule specification. The issue arises if you test a complex rule specification before you test the rule specification that contains the validation issues.Workaround: After you test the complex rule specification, log out of the Analyst tool. Log in to the Analyst tool and test the rule specification that contains the validation issues.

398862 When you test a complex rule specification for the first time in an Analyst tool session, the test takes several minutes to run.

398620 A user can use a static URL in the browser to open the Analyst tool after the user has logged out from the Administrator tool.

397562 You might experience intermittent errors when you work with rule specifications that use reference tables in the Analyst tool. The errors might arise when you save a rule specification, compile a rule specification, or edit an action in a rule statement.

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CR Description

397324 The Analyst tool fails with a run-time error if you navigate to the Datatypes view and drill down to any value of the date data type in the column profile results.

397132 If two rule specifications in a project folder contain rule sets with the same name, the Analyst tool cannot compile one of the rule specifications. The Analyst tool can compile one of the rule specifications, but it cannot compile another rule specification that contains a rule set with a shared name.

396562 If you work on cluster task and you enter a string value or a date value as a column filter, the filter operation might fail.

395352 In Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 2012R, the Analyst tool user interface shows unexpected text if you enter an invalid user name and a password.Workaround: Configure the browser to allow access to the Analyst tool. In Internet Explorer, add the Analyst tool URL to the list of trusted sites.

Informatica Data Quality Closed Enhancements


CR Description

392309 When you update a reference table that a mapping execution object specifies in the Data Quality Software Development Kit, you can restart the execution object.

385427 When you add an input to a rule statement, the input menu displays the inputs alphabetically and selects the first available input by default.

Informatica Data Quality Fixed Limitations



CR Description

395970 When you export a mapping that contains a data quality transformation to a PowerCenter XML file, the export operation might not parse an object name correctly.

395519 When you export multiple reference tables from a Model repository, the export operation might fail to create a dictionary file for every reference table.

395110 When you run a mapping with the Data Quality Software Development Kit, the Application Programming Interface might ignore the log level that you set. The issue arises when you set the log level to "none" before you run a mapping.

394930 The Application Programming Interface in the Data Quality Software Development Kit might return an unhelpful error message when a mapping fails to run.

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392917 A workflow does not send a confirmation email when a user completes a task instance in the Analyst tool.

391650 The exception record database does not drop surplus database connections at the maximum idle time limit.

Informatica Data Services Closed Enhancements


CR Description

384781 You can use Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC to query an Informatica SQL data service.

Informatica Data Services Fixed Limitations



CR Description

393838 When a third-party client tool connects to a node on AIX with ODBC in TLS mode, the connection fails with the following error:Connection Open is Failed[HY000]TLS negotiation has failed. Verify that the certificate file is valid and CA matches with the service keystore.

Informatica Data Transformation Fixed Limitations



CR Description

396351 An Unstructured Data transformation session with an output relational hierarchy crashes during de-initialization in a Windows 64-bit installation.

380975 An Unstructured Data transformation does not run correctly when the PowerCenter workflow that contains the transformation is configured to run on a grid.

Informatica Developer Fixed Limitations


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CR Description

398171 Importing a mapping into the Developer tool with the replace option fails unexpectedly.

397147 A mapping with multiple REG_REPLACE() functions takes a long time to run.

395457 When you configure a Standardizer transformation to remove or replace multiple strings, you enter each string on the first row in the configuration dialog box. The transformation moves each string to the last row in the dialog box after you enter the string.

395456 When you add or delete an operation in a Standardizer transformation, the transformation does not update the list of operations until you leave the current dialog box view.

395452 When you add token sets to a Labeler transformation strategy that contains token sets, the configuration dialog box does not display the token sets correctly.

395451 When you select the Case Sensitive option or the Set Priority option in a Labeler transformation, the Model repository does not save the option values. The issue arises when you configure a Labeler transformation operation to label tokens with reference table values.

394721 When you export multiple objects, the hierarchical structure of the exported objects changes. You cannot import the objects because they are no longer valid.

394107 After you upgrade a Model Repository Service with an extended pack of predefined data domains from version 9.6.0 to version 9.6.1, the export of the extended pack of predefined data domains fails with a run-time error message.

392821 When you compile and save a probabilistic model, the content set that contains the model does not display the compiled status of the model.

392522 The Address Validator transformation does not generate output on the following port when you specify multiple execution instances on the transformation:- County Federal Information Processing Standard Code

392475 When you use the keyboard to select a label in a probabilistic model, the Developer tool does not highlight the label that you select.

392156 When you perform match performance analysis on a Match transformation, the Data Integration Service does not purge the results of the analysis from the profile warehouse.

392153 When you perform match performance analysis on a Key Generator transformation, the Data Integration Service does not purge the results of the analysis from the profile warehouse.

392107 When you refresh the Model Repository Service during impact analysis with the filter option, null pointer exception occurs and the Developer tool shuts down unexpectedly.

391994 When a mapping contains Teradata sources and a Union transformation, the Data Integration Service does not push down transformation logic to the Teradata sources.

391764 If you copy and paste all the data rows in a probabilistic model into the same probabilistic model, you cannot compile the model.

391595 When you preview data for a virtual table in a mapping, the following message appears: Argument 'identity' cannot be null. The issue occurs when the mapping contains a non-reusable Sequence Generator transformation and the Sequence Generator transformation contains a non-reusable sequence data object.

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390323 When you perform undo and redo operations in a probabilistic model, the Developer tool returns the cursor to the first data row in the model.

389820 You cannot copy and paste data rows between probabilistic models in a content set.

389624 When you copy a probabilistic model from one content set to another, the copy operation renames the model with the current default model name.

389591 If you copy a probabilistic model to a content set that contains a model of the same name, the operation does not create unique data files for each model.

389248 You cannot use keyboard shortcuts to select the name, description, or file name in the properties dialog box of a probabilistic model.

388953 When you work on a probabilistic model, you cannot use keyboard shortcuts to delete a label from the Manage Labels dialog box.

388931 You cannot use keyboard shortcuts to edit the label columns in the Manage Labels dialog box in a probabilistic model.

387372 You cannot configure a Match transformation to create identity index tables in an IBM DB2 database if the database uses partitioned tablespaces.

387302 The Data Transformation Manager (DTM) hangs when you move the ports up and down in an output group of a normalizer.

386386 When you edit a value in a data row in a probabilistic model, the value moves to the end of the row.

Informatica Developer Known Limitations


CR Description

400366 You cannot use random masking on a port with String data type if you set the port precision to 1.Workaround: Set the port precision to a value greater than 1 when you use random masking on a port with String data type.

399794 The data type of an output port in an Aggregator transformation changes from Decimal to Double.Workaround: Change the port data type to Decimal.

399449 The Data Integration Service does not load data to a Sybase target when you use an ODBC connection and a filter condition with a Datetime field.

399331 When you export a flat file data object from a Model repository to a PowerCenter repository and a column name contains a slash (/), the data object fails to link to other objects in the mapping.

397596 If you do not connect a binary port in a DB2 mapping and configure the pushdown optimization level to full or normal, the mapping fails with an error.

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396418 When you perform a lookup on two Netezza tables that reside in different schemas, the Lookup transformation fails with an error.Workaround: Use a custom query in the Lookup transformation and run the mapping again.

395489 When you use a non-aggregate function in an Aggregator transformation and you do not select a GROUP BY clause, the Developer tool does not return a validation error. When you run the mapping, it fails with the following error message:Problem communicating with Data Integration Service [<domain name>.<Data Integration Service name>]. [JSF_0080] The service framework will not retry the request because the connection was not restored during the reconnection timeout period.

395353 When you use the ABORT() function in an Expression transformation, the Data Integration Service does not process the Expression transformation.Workaround: Change the default value of the output port to 0 and run the mapping again.

Metadata Manager Fixed Limitations



CR Description

398570 When you add related catalog objects to a business glossary, the Metadata Manager Service creates multiple processing threads that it does not destroy. The thread creation greatly increases CPU use on the machine that hosts the Metadata Manager Service.

396415 You can add business terms to categories and add relationships between business terms in Metadata Manager. However, because these relationships are not propagated back to the Analyst tool, there is no reason to create them.

396259 When you load a Business Glossary resource that has special characters in the term descriptions, the load fails.

395308 In Windows 8, the Metadata Manager Agent fails to start as a Windows service.

395102 When you load a Business Glossary resource that has double quotation mark characters (") in the category or term descriptions, the load fails.

394174 The Missing Link Details report contains extra entries for unqualified column names.

394173 Vertical scroll bars are sometimes missing from the data lineage diagram.

394172 When you load a Business Glossary resource that contains multiple attributes with the same attribute label, the load fails.

393471 When the Metadata Manager Service synchronizes a related catalog object for a business term in Metadata Manager with the corresponding related asset in the Analyst tool, it sets the related asset description to the business glossary resource description instead of the catalog object description.

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392978 When you run mmcmd from a client machine and use the -dn (domain name) option, the program displays the following error message if it cannot connect to the domain:[ERROR]Error

392377 When you import a resource configuration file that does not include the resource password and you specify the password during import, the Metadata Manager Service does not update the resource. The Metadata Manager Service displays the following error message:Resource import failed. For more information, see mm.log.

391202 When you display a lineage diagram or catalog object through the URL API, and you do not have an active Metadata Manager session, Metadata Manager displays the Browse tab instead of the diagram or object.

386000 When the resource load for a business intelligence, data modeling, or Informatica Platform resource fails with a status of Load Failed-Resumable and you resume the load, the Load tab shows no last status.

Metadata Manager Known Limitations


CR Description

400007 When you import a resource configuration file for a business intelligence, data modeling, or JDBC resource that has no password, Metadata Manager creates the resource but the test connection fails.Workaround: Edit the resource, click Modify Password, and delete all text in the Password field to ensure that it is empty.

395899 The Find button in the lineage diagram does not display search results the first time you click it.Workaround: Click the button a second time to display the search results.

Design API Fixed Limitations



CR Description

392837 You cannot use the Design API to create a connection in non-Kerberos mode, and you cannot create a workflow in either Kerberos or non-Kerberos mode. The workflow creation issue occurs if you set the PortType value for the source field to Input.

Informatica Connector Toolkit Fixed Limitations


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CR Description

391762 In the Test Write wizard, if you load a test data file that contains binary data type, the write operation fails. This issue occurs because the Test Write wizard does not support files that contain binary data type.

391760 In the Test Write wizard, if you load a test data file that contains text data type, the write operation fails. This issue occurs because the Informatica Connector Toolkit incorrectly matches text data type to integer data type.

Informatica Connector Toolkit Known Limitations


CR Description

401082 When you implement the readDatafromSource method in the DataAdapter class, if the number of rows that the dataTable parameter contains is greater than the value of the rowsToRead parameter, the test read operation fails with a connection reset error.Workaround: Ensure that the number of rows that the dataTable parameter contains is less than or equal to the value of the rowsToRead parameter.

397686 If you change the native column names in a data object operation, the adapter fails with the following error: Column name is empty.Workaround: Create the adapter data object with native column names and use it in the data object operation.

396217 When the initDataSession method returns INFA_FAILURE, a callback to the deinitDataSession method does not occur.Workaround: If the return status is INFA_FAILURE, perform the deinitialization operations.

Informatica Version 9.6.1

Informatica Domain Closed Enhancements


CR Description

383857 When you install Informatica on a network that uses Kerberos authentication, you can configure the level at which the domain uses service principal names (SPN). If you set the service principal level at the node level, the domain requires one SPN for a node, shared by all services on the node. If you set the service principal level at the process level, the domain requires a unique SPN for each service on the node.

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Informatica Domain Fixed Limitations



CR Description

390759 In the Administrator tool, when you select a Data Integration Service or a Content Management Service, the Properties tab appears empty if there are more than 600 connections in the domain.

388234 A user who does not have write permission on a folder in the Administrator tool can copy the folder.

387119 Connections to a gateway node fail after the gateway node recovers from an IO exception.

381790 After you upgrade the domain to version 9.6.0, you cannot log in to the Administrator tool through HTTPS if you use the default Informatica SSL certificate because of a discrepancy in the SSL cipher.

381127 When you run the infacmd dis refreshdataobjectcache command to refresh the data object cache of an application that contains an SQL data service application, the infacmd application shuts down unexpectedly.

377378 If you have only the Access from Administrator Tool privilege from the Monitoring privilege group, a session expiry message appears when you log in to the Monitoring tool with the Monitoring URL.

376776 The server uninstaller stops responding due to a directory permissions issue.

376594 The following error occurs when you try to delete or create a backup of PowerCenter Repository Service content that was created by another user:Cannot connect to repository. Login Failure. The user <user_name> is not valid for the repository. Failed to connect to repository [PowerCenter Repository].

376592 You cannot run the infacmd rtm Export command from the command line utility.

376463 The following error occurs when you select a Data Integration Service in the navigator of the Monitoring tool, and the Data Integration Service name contains an ampersand character:The following object has been deleted by another user.

376260 When you run a query on a Model Repository Service that you restored with the backup of another Model Repository Service, a null pointer exception occurs.

376247 The infacmd isp CreateConnection command fails for all relational native connections when you include the AdvancedJDBCSecurityOptions parameter.

376246 If the Data Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly during Human task creation, automatic workflow recovery fails.

375988 You cannot use infacmd to create an SAP BW Service in an Informatica domain that uses Kerberos authentication. The infacmd isp CreateSAPBWService command does not have an option to enter the security domain. The security domain is native by default.

375964 When you create an SAP BW service with infacmd in a domain that uses Kerberos authentication, you cannot enter a repository user name.

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375943 In the Monitoring tool, the aggregated statistics of an application appear incorrectly for a Data Integration Service. The number of web services and SQL data services running in an application are also incorrect.

375925 If you recycle the Data Integration Service while a Human task creates task instances, the service does not restart the Human task within the resilience timeout period. The issue occurs when you configure the workflow for automatic recovery.

375850 When you run jobs on Internet Explorer 10 on a Windows 2012 machine, the notification state icon freezes.

375811 When you export a scorecard and the Informatica domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication, the Analyst Service appends the wrong domain name to the host name of the scorecard properties.

375752 The infacmd aud GetPrivilegeAssociation command does not show reports for the Metadata Manager Service or the Reporting Service.

375642 If you back up a domain configured with Kerberos authentication and then restore the domain with the -dk option to disable Kerberos authentication, you cannot change the domain authentication back to Kerberos authentication.

374047 If a Data Integration Service has a name with non-English characters, the notifications of the status of jobs run by the Data Integration Service disappear when you refresh the page in the Monitoring tool.

373794 When you run the infasetup switchToKerberosMode command and the user realm name or service realm name that you specify is not valid, you cannot change the domain configuration.

373197 You cannot revoke user or group permissions to a virtual table when the row level security condition is set for the user or group.

372807 The Administrator tool does not list the HTTP connections of a REST Web Service Consumer transformation.

372740 A user without the Manage Service privilege can upgrade a PowerCenter Repository Service from the Administrator tool.

372359 When you create a security domain with LDAP configuration, the security domain is not listed under the LDAP user name in the Administrator tool.

371854 When you revoke the deny permission for a user or group under the Data Integration Service Application view, the deny permission is not revoked.

368616 The Last Cache Refresh Time filter in the SQL Data Service Virtual Table list view in the Monitoring tool does not work.

367600 When you use the infacmd dis CreateService command to create a Data Integration Service from the command line, the command requires a user name and password for the Model repository. In an Informatica domain that uses Kerberos authentication, the user name and password are not used for authentication.

364585 The Elapsed Time filter does not work in Jobs, Deployed Mapping Jobs, and Deployed Workflow list views in the Administrator tool.

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362773 On Windows, the infacmd aud getUsersPersonalInfo command does not return any information for users with descriptions that exceed 500 characters.

359924 On UNIX, if you configure a node to run on a domain with Kerberos authentication, the node fails to start after you run the infacmd swichToGatewayNode or infacmd swichToWorkerNode commands with a different case for the node name.

355288 If you disable connection pooling on the Human task database, the Data Integration Service generates errors when you try to connect to the database or create tasks.

338733 Connection pool locks can cause the master gateway node to fail to update its status within the interval allowed. The master gateway node subsequently shuts down.

338732 If the connection between the master gateway node and another gateway node is temporarily dropped, the master gateway node immediately marks the gateway node as inactive.

Informatica Domain Known Limitations


CR Description

393242 The Search Service log incorrectly displays the following exception:java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: no further information.You can ignore this message.

393167 If you move the Search Service to another node, the service might not create all of the required search index files in the index location.Workaround: After moving the Search Service, enter another directory for the index location and then recycle the service.

392886 If you enable the Search Service when the Analyst Service is disabled, the Search Service log incorrectly displays an internal error message.Workaround: Ignore the internal error message. Verify that the Analyst Service is enabled before you enable the Search Service.

392427 A validation error occurs when you enter a valid path for the Analyst Service flat file cache if the Analyst Service and the master gateway node run on different operating systems.

391792 On AIX, the Data Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly when you a run an SQL data service with a data size of more than 5 GB.

391426 The audit reports you download in the Safari browser always have the .html file extension.Workaround: Rename the file extension to the type that you specified when you generated the report.

390845 The Model Repository Service stops responding if it cannot access the repository database.Workaround: Restart the Model Repository Service after you verify that the repository database is accessible from the machine that hosts the service.

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390677 When the infacmd ipc exportToPC command fails to connect to the Model Repository Service, the application error stack trace is exposed at the command prompt.

389481 On UNIX, when you create a domain and the Model Repository Service with an NFS user, another NFS user who belongs to the same group cannot start the domain.Workaround: To start the domain with another NFS user, clear the following directory to after you shut down the domain: <Informatica Installation Directory>\services\work_dir

388145 The status of the associated mapping, scripts, and Hive queries changes to the Unknown state instead of the Aborted state when you abort the profiling job and recycle the Data Integration Service.Workaround: Complete the profiling job before recycling the Data Integration Service.

387393 The Privileges audit report displays each privilege for the Metadata Manager Service multiple times.

375190 When the master gateway node in a Data Integration Service grid goes down, metadata operations such as start, stop, and deploy applications, might fail.Workaround: Restart the Data Integration Service.

353849 When the number of objects in the repository increases, the Model Repository view MRX_MAP_SRCCNT does not provide the correct result.

337160 If you run an SQL query to preview DB2 for z/OS fields that have the TIME data type, the Data Viewer view displays the result as a time stamp. The date portion of the time stamp is incorrectly populated with the current date instead of the default date of 1980-01-01.

273644 If you incorrectly install IBM DB2 client on a Windows 64-bit machine that runs Informatica services and perform a data preview on an IBM DB2 table, the Java Platform SE binary stops working and the Data Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly.Workaround: Reinstall the IBM DB2 client correctly.

236559 On Windows and UNIX, infacmd CreateConnection command option values with spaces must be enclosed in single quotes. On UNIX, you must also enclose the command option in double quotes.

PowerCenter Closed Enhancements


CR Description

383408 The session log displays an error if you did not or incorrectly define a parameter for transformation caches in the parameter file.

382774 The HTTP response code 201 is treated as success in the HTTP transformation.

220520 When HTTP server returns the HTTP error codes, the HTTP transformation passes the data to the downstream transformation or target.

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CR Description

390181 When you run workflows with a PowerCenter Integration Service enabled to store high availability persistence information, the LM_44277 and LM_44312 errors are logged in the Integration Service log.

387749 The data masking transformation generates duplicate values when you use the key masking technique in the transformation.

385935 When the PowerCenter Integration Service performs an uncached lookup on clob data types and the lookup condition is not met for a row, the PowerCenter Integration Service returns null values for subsequent rows.

385197 When you try to remove the extra foreign key from the view, an unexpected condition occurs at OVCtrl.cpp (line # 2071).

384838 Key masking does not generate unique values when you set the Result String Replacement Characters field value to 0123456789.

384754 When you set the auto cache size as a session parameter, the PowerCenter Integration Service assigns an incorrect cache size instead of the auto value set for the session.

384642 Key masking does not mask the value 9.

381015 After you deploy a mapping that contains the XML Generator, the Normalizer, or the Multi-Group External Procedure transformation, the sequence values in the primary key ports are reset to random values in the target folder.

378664 If the Informatica domain uses Kerberos authentication, the pmrep DeployFolder command fails to connect to the target repository when you try to copy a folder from a registered global repository to a local repository.

378654 The PowerCenter Integration Service generates a core file when the following conditions are true:- The session runs in an Informatica domain with secure communication enabled.- The Informatica domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication.- The domain uses operating system profiles.- You set the INFA_TRUSTSTORE environment variable, but you do not set the INFA_KEYSTORE environment variable.

376646 The PowerCenter Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly with an assert in sessiontask.cpp (line # 621) on HP-UX 11.31 when the host name of the Integration Service process node is longer than eight characters.

376615 An upgraded Match transformation session stops unexpectedly when the following conditions are true:- The Match transformation performs dual-source identity match analysis.- You upgraded PowerCenter 9.1 or a later PowerCenter version to PowerCenter 9.6.0.

376128 When you start a workflow with the pmcmd startworkflow command and you use the -wait option, the workflow stops responding after the PowerCenter Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly.

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376111 After you upgrade to 9.6.0, you might not be able to edit the user name or password of the associated repository for the Web Services Hub.

375977 If you use the logged-in user account to deploy or connect to a PowerCenter folder with pmrep, the PowerCenter Repository Service generates an error if you do not specify the security domain for the logged-in user.

375841 When you run a workflow on a grid and OS Process Impersonation (OSPI) is enabled, the PowerCenter Integration Service dispatches all the sessions to the master node. This issue occurs when the Informatica domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication.

375635 If the Informatica domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication, the Workflow Monitor might generate errors when restarting workflows when a session recovers from an interruption in the PowerCenter Integration Service process. The Workflow Monitor might also display the wrong workflow status if the client machine powers down for a time.

375495 The pmrep Connect command shuts down unexpectedly when you do not enter the required arguments, such as the domain name or host name and port number values.

375396 You cannot run a session on a grid in a domain where all the following conditions are true:- The Informatica domain uses Kerberos authentication.- The Informatica domain has secure communication enabled.- The PowerCenter Integration Service uses an operating system profile for the user account.The Integration Service does not create partition groups based on the number of nodes in the grid.

374997 Random masking masks only one field when there is more than one field with random masking in the same data masking transformation.

373905 An Oracle external loader ignores the target table name prefix in the control file.

373388 When you select the option to undo a checkout on a worklet, the worklet removes the Start task, and the PowerCenter Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly.

373042 The PowerCenter Integration Service shuts down unexpectedly in memoryattreval.cpp (line # 250) when the lookup cache settings contain a parameter file value that is not valid.

372516 When you specify repository information that is not valid, memory leaks accumulate on repeated tries for pmrep and pmcmd commands.

372112 You cannot copy PowerCenter repository content in a domain that runs on a network with Kerberos authentication.

371930 When you run a workflow with 200 sessions in parallel on Redhat Linux version 5.9 or 6.4, all sessions stop responding.

371866 When you create a session for a mapping with a relational Lookup transformation, you cannot set the Use Kerberos authentication option when you configure the SQL Query property.

371027 Sessions with a Source Qualifier lookup against Microsoft SQL Server fail when they use an ODBC connection with the DataDirect 7.1 SQL Server Classic Wire Protocol driver.

370850 When the domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication, you cannot view data in a local PowerCenter repository from the global PowerCenter repository.

370724 The Web Services Hub might not shut down when the domain shuts down.

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368746 You cannot register a local PowerCenter repository to a global PowerCenter repository in another domain when the domains run on a network with Kerberos authentication.

368194 Failover and recovery performance is slow when you store process state information in database tables for a PowerCenter Integration Service.

365623 You can enable PowerCenter Repository Services with the same name or database properties in multiple domains.

365357 The Repository Manager cannot compare folders in different repositories when the Informatica domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication. The Compare Wizard fails with the following error:REP_55037]Connection information is missing for the source repository [%s], Please use Edit Connection to fill in the information.

364697 A data masking transformation that uses expression masking fails when you run the session if there are columns with similar names with a digit at the end.

353616 In the PowerCenter Client, you can revert the metadata extension values for the non-editable vendor-defined metadata extensions from the Metadata Extensions tab of the object.

353478 The Workflow Manager shuts down with an unexpected condition in tswdgnst.cpp (line # 729) when you view the SQL generated in the Pushdown Optimization Viewer.

346362 The infacmd rds CreateService command fails to create a Reporting and Dashboard Service.

339379 You cannot use mapgen to create mappings in the Mapping Architect for Visio with Microsoft Visio 2010.

316296 If you run a session that includes an identity match mapplet with multiple Pair Generation transformations, the PowerCenter Integration Service might become unresponsive.

231668 Key data masking creates duplicate values.

PowerCenter Known Limitations


CR Description

393135 When you connect to the PowerCenter repository with the worker node, the pmrep upgrade and the pmrep delete commands fail.Workaround: Specify the gateway host name and port when you run the pmrep Connect command. Alternatively, use the Administrator tool to perform the upgrade and delete tasks from the Actions menu of the Repository Service. You can also use the Upgrade Service Wizard to upgrade the service in the Administrator tool.

392671 Failed to check appropriate privileges for the metadata web services.

390392 Failed to import an SAP mapping containing an IDoc source definition.Workaround: Deploy the SAP mapping.

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388596 When the workflow contains a worklet, the REP_SESS_CONFIG_PARM view displays multiple session configuration parameters.Workaround: Edit the workflow to remove the worklet, and run the session again.

376037 The PowerCenter Repository Service fails to enable version control after you create a Repository Service.Workaround: Change the operating mode from exclusive to normal, and then change it back to exclusive. Edit the repository properties and enable version control.

373460 When you run a script to connect to multiple repositories with pmrep connect commands and a connection fails, the PowerCenter Repository Service might generate a core file.

366475 If the PowerCenter Integration Service process stops abruptly, the workflows automatically recover even when disabled for recovery.

362074 When you add a relational source to a mapping that you imported from a non-default schema, the source instance does not contain the owner name.Workaround: Set the owner name for the source in the session properties before you run the session.

349601 When you use the default date format MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.US in the range values for key range partitioning, a session returns no rows.Workaround: Use date format, MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS in the session properties to define range values.

321920 The Repository Manager shuts down unexpectedly when you import mapping specifications for Microsoft Analyst for Excel into a PowerCenter repository with a Japanese locale.

305943 The PowerCenter Integration Service creates an XML target with a different name when you use an FTP connection without setting the default location.

303899 The scheduler schedules the workflow runs differently on Windows and UNIX at DST end time.

PowerCenter Third-Party Known Limitations


CR Description

393899 You cannot configure an Oracle 12c database for Kerberos authentication.Oracle SR number: 3-8990776511

373732 Sessions that read data from an Oracle source or write data to an Oracle target might fail when secure communication is enabled for the Oracle database. A session is more likely to fail when it performs a database lookup against a secure Oracle database.Workaround: Contact Informatica Global Customer Support. Reference Oracle SR number: 3-8287328531.

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CR Description

380339 The Hive UUID_UNPARSE function returns the same value for all rows when the mapping is run in the Hive environment.

Big Data Edition Third-Party Known Limitations


CR Description

HIVE-6522 The mapping fails if the intermediate sum of decimal values in the AVG function exceed the default Hive precision and scale for a mapping that runs with high precision mode.Workaround: Run the mapping in the low precision mode.

PowerExchange 9.6.1 Release Delayed

The PowerExchange 9.6.1 release is delayed until August 2014. This delay applies to PowerExchange CDC for i5/OS, Linux, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS data sources. It also applies to PowerExchange software for bulk data movement operations that use the PowerExchange Listener to access for i5/OS, Linux, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS data sources. The delay does not apply to the PowerExchange adapters for specific applications except for PowerExchange for JD Edwards World.

Important: Do not install or upgrade the following software until after PowerExchange 9.6.1 is available for installation:

• Any Informatica 9.6.1 or PowerCenter 9.6.1 software that you plan to use with PowerExchange

• JD Edwards World 9.6.1

Otherwise, unpredictable results can occur.

Also, information related to some PowerExchange 9.6.1 changes appears in Informatica 9.6.1 publications released in June 2014. The following changes do not take effect until PowerExchange 9.6.1 is released:

• You can use the PowerExchange Listener displayStatsListener command to print monitoring statistics for a PowerExchange Listener that runs on Windows or z/OS. This command is described in the Informatica Command Reference.

• When you configure the Informatica domain to use Kerberos authentication, you can configure Informatica clients, the Data Integration Service, and the PowerCenter Integration Service to locate a PowerExchange Listener Service in the domain. Include the optional service_name parameter in the NODE statement in the DBMOVER configuration file on the client, Data Integration Service, or PowerCenter Integration Service machine. This change is described in the Informatica Application Service Guide. Previously, you had to use the node_name parameter instead of the service_name parameter.

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CR Description

388318 Cannot save the mapping specification if you delete a source that is dependent on downstream transformations such as Join transformations and Lookup transformations.

384582 When you import a glossary from an .xlsx file that contains an existing glossary ID, the Analyst tool does not check for duplicate glossary IDs.

384356 If you edit a rule set in a rule specification that you previously saved and compiled, you might experience problems when you compile the rule specification again.

383969 The Analyst tool generates an error when you update a rule specification and the following conditions are true:- The rule specification has the same primary rule set name as another rule specification in the same folder.- The rule specification reads a reference table, and you update the rule specification to read a different reference table.

383536 You cannot clear all data values from a row of decimal data in a reference table.

383015 When you update and save a task that corrects clusters of duplicate records, the Analyst Service might generate a stack trace.

381801 When you create a reference table from column profile results with a table name that matches an existing table, the warning message on the matching table name continues to appear after you cancel creating the reference table.

381686 If you create a reference table from a profile result, you cannot save the reference table.

381492 If you copy a mapping specification from another mapping specification and you delete columns from the original mapping specification, the duplicate mapping specification might become unusable.

378829 If you create a linked rule statement and you delete the second part of the rule statement, you cannot add a condition to the rule statement. The issue arises when the rule set contains another rule statement below the current rule set.

378633 When you configure a rule specification, you can combine float and integer data types in a condition or an action.

378475 The Analyst tool does not handle line-break characters in a rule specification description as escaped characters.

377934 If you run an enterprise discovery profile in a Kerberos domain, the Analyst tool generates an error in the Data Integration Service log file.

377176 If you have Monitoring privileges but not the permission on the Data Integration Service, you cannot view the Data Integration Service jobs on the Monitoring tab of the Analyst tool.

377048 The Analyst tool generates an error when you try to view or complete a set of linked tasks in a Microsoft SQL Server Human task database.

376981 The general properties of a rule specification identify the repository project that stores the rule specification but not the project folder that stores the rule specification.

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376841 After you run a profile with the data domain discovery option and either one of the First <number> Rows, Random Sample <number> Rows, or Random Sample sampling options enabled, the following export options fail:- Export data types to a .csv file.- Export the complete profile results summary to an .xlsx file.

376747 You cannot compile a rule specification that shares a rule set name with another rule specification in the Model repository.

376740 If you link two or more rule statements and you delete the second or a lower statement, the Analyst tool might not evaluate the other linked statements. The issue occurs when the rule set that contains the linked statements also contains another rule statement.

376584 When you view the column profile for a source column in a mapping specification in the localized Analyst tool interface, the Column Profiling Details dialog box does not appear.

376439 If the search results contain an indirect match to a business term with a rule intent, the indirect match section displays the business term name instead of the rule intent.

375965 If a property name contains a hyphen and the value type is Multi-value, you cannot add the property to the business template or policy template.

375924 When you select a project after selecting multiple projects in the Library workspace, the Analyst tool does not display the project contents and displays an error message.

375339 The Analyst tool displays an error when you successfully create and run an enterprise discovery profile with localized characters in the profile name.

374714 The Library workspace performance varies based on the number of projects in the Model repository and the number of assets within a project.

374617 The Analyst tool generates an unexpected error if the following conditions are true:1. You enable the notification setting for a scorecard without configuring the global notification setting for the Data

Integration Service.2. You run the scorecard.3. You disable the notification setting in the scorecard, and run the scorecard again.

374347 The time stamp filter does not work in the View History section of a Glossary asset.

361757 When you validate a rule specification, the Analyst tool does not invalidate a condition that uses a single input in a merge operation.

358256 When a user opens a reusable rule in the Analyst tool, the Analyst tool performance is slower than when an administrator opens the reusable rule.

343883 You cannot apply a filter to the audit trail database for a reference table.

334679 When you work on a task to review exceptions and you return the task data to a previous task, the Analyst tool can generate an error.

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325751 If you create a reference table in the Analyst tool from a file source that includes a decimal data column, the New Reference Table wizard identifies the data type as number. If you set incorrect precision and scale values for the column, the wizard does not provide a clear error message.

290642 When you create a reference table from a profile on Oracle data, the Analyst tool does not display a warning message in the following cases:- The profile data precision exceeds the precision of a reference table column.- The operation adds decimal data to a column defined for Integer data types.

Informatica Analyst Known Limitations


CR Description

393641 If the profiling warehouse is on DB2 version 9.5, the Analyst tool fails to send email notifications for a metric score to scorecard users and generates an error message in the Data Integration Service log file.Workaround: Configure email notifications at the metric group level.

393622 You cannot run a column profile on a data object, which includes column names that start with a non-ASCII special character, such as the ampersand, pound, or dollar sign.

393558 In Business Glossary, if the name of a related Metadata Manager catalog object for a business term contains a space as the first character, the corresponding data assets do not get updated in the Analyst tool business glossary. Also, if the name of a related catalog object for a business term contains any of the following characters, the URL in the Analyst tool business glossary does not work:` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) , / \ "

393006 An administrator cannot recycle the Analyst Service if the associated Metadata Manager Service is disabled.Workaround: Enable the associated Metadata Manager Service and then recycle the Analyst Service. Or, remove the Metadata Manager Service from the Analyst Service and recycle the Analyst Service.

392578 An Analyst tool user with the Access from Analyst Tool privilege who does not have the Access from Administrator Tool privilege cannot view the jobs on Job Status workspace.

391855 You cannot open a linked business term if the business term is in the rejected phase.

391845 When you validate a rule specification, the Analyst tool might fail to identify a rule set that is not valid. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- The rule statements in a child rule set generate outputs in more than one data type.- The parent rule set does not read the output from the child rule set.Workaround: Configure a rule statement in the parent rule set to read the output from the child rule set. When you validate the rule specification, the validation process determines if the child rule set is not valid.

391737 If you move a rule specification multiple times between one folder and another folder in the Model repository, the Analyst tool can generate an internal error.Workaround: Log out and log back in to the Analyst tool before you move the rule specification.

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391509 When you assign permissions to more than 100 objects in the Glossary security workspace, the Analyst tool takes a long time to save the permissions.

391312 The Analyst tool displays an error message if you edit an enterprise discovery profile after you delete a data domain that was included in the profile.

391309 When you edit the data domain discovery settings of an enterprise discovery profile, the Choose Data Domains dialog box clears all the data domains that were previously selected.

391306 The consolidated results summary of an enterprise discovery profile might display an incorrect number of inferred data domains when you perform the following tasks:1. You run an enterprise discovery profile with multiple data objects and a column name as the sampling option.2. Edit the profile and add another data object to the profile.3. Run the profile, and approve an inferred data domain.4. Change the sampling option of the profile, and run the profile again.

390785 The Analyst tool does not check for duplicate labels when you create or customize a Business Glossary property.Workaround: Do not add duplicate labels when you create or customize a property.

390215 In the consolidated results view of an enterprise discovery profile, you cannot sort the values based on Profile, Status, and Found In Columns headers.

389874 When you perform a discovery search for assets based on patterns, data types, unique values, or null values without entering a % threshold value, the Analyst tool generates a run-time error message.

389136 After you reject more than one inferred columns for a data domain, the Analyst tool displays the count of rejected columns as 1.

385230 If you try to create a value frequency rule on a rule column in a column profile, the Analyst tool generates an error message.

383512 In the Tags panel of a scorecard, the Assign Tags and Unassign Tags buttons are disabled.

378801 You cannot configure a rule statement that generates output from an addition or subtraction operation and a rule statement that generates output from a multiplication or division operation in the same rule set. The Analyst tool treats the output from an addition or subtraction operation as a different data type than the output from a multiplication or division operation.Workaround: Configure the rule statements in different rule sets.

375053 You cannot open a Human task instance in the Analyst tool if the Human task stores task metadata in a password-encrypted IBM DB2 database.

373816 After you upgrade from version 9.1.0, you might not be able to view the consolidated summary results of upgraded enterprise discovery profiles.Workaround: After the upgrade, run the enterprise discovery profiles.

372521 The web browser uses the host name to connect to the Analyst tool but reverts to an IP address after you enter the URL for the Analyst tool in the browser on some machine environments.

370183 If you cancel an enterprise discovery profile run in the Developer tool when the profile run nears completion, the Job Status workspace of the Analyst tool and the Monitoring tab of the Administrator tool display the profile run status as Completed.

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368494 If you do not have Microsoft Excel installed and you try to import the Business Glossary export file, the Analyst tool generates an error.Workaround: Import the Business Glossary export file again.

357362 When you select the option to edit a row in a reference table, the Analyst tool might display a different row than the row that you select. The issue occurs if you sort the reference table rows alphabetically after you select a row to edit.

355230 If you run a column profile on an Oracle data source that has a column of the Number data type without a precision and scale, the profile results for the column display in the scientific format.

342735 If you try to view a scorecard trend chart on a column with more than 16,000 unique values, the Analyst tool displays a JavaScript error. This issue occurs in Internet Explorer version 9.0.

325751 If you create a reference table in the Analyst tool from a file source that includes a decimal data column, the New Reference Table wizard identifies the data type as number. If you set incorrect precision and scale values for the column, the wizard does not provide a clear error message.

324789 If you run several profiles and scorecards in the Analyst tool multiple times in succession, the Monitoring tab of the Administrator tool incorrectly shows the run-time status of completed jobs as running.

314033 When you run a mapping in the Analyst tool that has reusable rules, the tool displays an incorrect number of output rows. Incorrect values appear in mappings that have output transformations with default values.Workaround: Remove the default values of the output transformation.

290642 When you create a reference table from a profile on Oracle data, the Analyst tool does not display a warning message in the following cases:- The profile data precision exceeds the precision of a reference table column.- The operation adds decimal data to a column defined for Integer data types.

287158 If you cancel the filter preview on a profile, the Analyst tool does not correctly update the job status of the filter preview.

280325 Exporting value frequency data after drilldown raises an error if the locale setting of the internet browser is Simple Chinese and the export file name contains UTF characters.

235819 If you run a profile with a reusable rule in the Analyst tool and later change the rule name and rerun the profile, the Analyst tool does not display the new name.

Informatica Data Quality Fixed Limitations


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CR Description

374434 When you run a web service mapping that performs identity match analysis and you use the mapping output in a SOAP operation, the SOAP operation generates corrupted data. The issue occurs when you configure the Match transformation to write identity index data to database tables.

335575 A workflow cannot track the status of a Human task when the following conditions are true:- The Human task runs on a different Data Integration Service than other workflow tasks.- The Data Integration Service process that runs the Human task ends abruptly.The workflow status does not update if the Human task is canceled, aborted, or recovered.

Informatica Data Quality Known Limitations


CR Description

390936 A single-source identity match mapping that you run in a web service with the Data Quality for Microsoft Excel plugin can generate incorrect output. The issue arises when the following conditions are true:- You configure the Match transformation to write identity index data to database tables.- You configure the Data Quality for Microsoft Excel plugin to write the results to a new spreadsheet.Workaround: Do not select the option to write the results to a new spreadsheet.

372581 A Human task workflow fails with a license not valid error when the domain is on a Japanese locale and a worker node is on an English locale.Workaround: Bring up the domain in an English locale.

357911 You cannot search for data values or select all data values in an unmanaged reference table column in the following cases:- The column specifies the Number() data type in an Oracle database.- The column specifies the Double data type in an IBM DB2 database.- The column specifies the Float data type in a Microsoft SQL Server database.

324161 When a workflow assigns a very large number of tasks to a user, such as 10,000 tasks, the Analyst tool takes a long time to display the list of tasks.

Informatica Data Services Fixed Limitations


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CR Description

376585 The infacmd ipc commands fail with errors.Workaround: Use the Developer tool to perform the tasks.

376029 If the SQL statement contains a double-quote character ("), Informatica fails to create a table in an SQL data service.

374449 If the Informatica domain runs on a network with Kerberos authentication, you cannot access a WSDL URL from a web service.

350703 When you validate the update dynamic cache condition or an associated expression in a dynamic lookup, the Expression Editor successfully validates expressions that are not valid.

Informatica Data Services Known Limitations


CR Description

391934 When you query virtual tables in an SQL data service that runs in a domain with secure communication enabled, the query can take a long time to complete.

Informatica Data Transformation Fixed Limitations



CR Description

CM-6642 A Data Processor transformation cannot run if the CMConfig.xml file is not a valid XML file.

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Informatica Data Transformation Known Limitations


CR Description

393480 A Data Processor transformation with an XML to Avro conversion, or relational to Avro conversion, may fail if the input is Unicode or UTF-8.Workaround: Select DIS > Processes > Custom Properties, and change the setting ExecutionContextOptions.JVMOption1 to -Dfile.encoding=UTF-16.

392939 A Data Processor transformation with an XML to Avro conversion, or relational to Avro conversion, may fail if the Data Integration Service is configured to run with separate processes.Workaround: Select DIS > Processes > Custom Properties, and change the setting ExecutionContextOptions.JVMOption1 to +UseParNewGC.

392937 A Data Processor transformation with Avro input or output may have unexpected behavior in push-down mode for MapR distributions.Workaround: Change the $INFA_HOME/services/shared/hadoop/<distribution>/infaConf/hadoopEnv.properties file. Add the following line to the file: infapdo.aux.jars.path=file://$DIS_INFA_HOME/services/shared/jars/thirdparty/org.apache.avro-avro-1.7.4.jar

391594 A Data Processor transformation with Avro input or output may have unexpected behavior in push-down mode for Pivotal distributions.Workaround: Change the $INFA_HOME/services/shared/hadoop/<distribution>/infaConf/hadoopEnv.properties file. Add the following line to the file: infapdo.aux.jars.path= infapdo.aux.jars.path=file://$DIS_INFA_HOME/services/shared/jars/thirdparty/com.thoughtworks.paranamer-paranamer-2.3.jar

Informatica Developer Fixed Limitations



CR Description

390540 When some ports in the logical data object are disconnected with an IBM DB2 physical object, pushdown optimization fails.

389313 The Developer tool generates an error if you open a reference table and add a description that contains more than 10 characters.

388522 The Developer tool does not restrict users from importing mappings from previous versions of Informatica.

386270 When you import a mapping that contains a Case Converter transformation to a Model repository, the transformation port configuration might become corrupted. The issue arises when the Case Converter transformation contains more than two input ports and more than two output ports.

385758 When you load data to an Oracle target in bulk mode, the timestamp values are not loaded.

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385640 Data preview for a transformation with multiple output groups takes a long time.

385376 When you configure an Address Validator transformation to run in suggestion list mode in a Japanese locale, the Developer tool might display an incorrect error message.

381815 A match mapping that reads identity index database tables generates inconsistent results if you change any of the following Match transformation properties between mapping runs:- Key field- Key level- Key type- Population file

381339 You can configure a Match transformation to write identity index data to tables that do not store data in the same format as the transformation input ports.

377333 When you run a data preview in a web service mapping that writes identity index data to database tables, the data preview fails.

377203 An identity match mapping generates incorrect clusters when the following conditions are true:- The Match transformation updates the data in the index database tables.- The Match transformation reads a null group key value from a Key Generator transformation.

377098 An identity match mapping generates clusters of different sizes when you run the mapping with one of the following settings:- You configure the mapping to write the identity index data to temporary files.- You configure the mapping to write the identity index data to database tables and you select the Filter exact

Matches option.

376982 If you run a column profile on a logical data object model based on a Erwin source, the Developer tool fails with the following initialization error: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.informatica.metadata.common.typsystem.typelibrary.impl.SimpleTypeImpl cannot be cast to com.informatica.metadata.common.typesystem.DataType

376858 A single-source identity match mapping generates incorrect clusters when the following conditions are true:- You select the Filter Exact Matches option in the Match transformation.- The Data Integration Service runs on an AIX operating system.

376855 After a Model Repository Service upgrade, you cannot view object dependencies for connection objects in the Object Dependencies view.

376845 When you run a mapping in a Hive environment with a Router transformation that routes all rows including rows with no column data to a user-defined output group, the Data Integration Service also writes rows with no column data to the default output group.For example, a table has three columns Col1(int), Col2(int), and Col3(int). The Router transformation has the following user-defined output groups and group filter conditions:- Out1 that contains rows with Col1 > 2.- Out2 that contains all the rows with a condition that is true for all rows such as 'ABC'='ABC'.The Data Integration Service evaluates rows with no data in Col 1 to Null and also writes rows to the default output group.

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376611 When you select and clear the Filter Exact Matches option on the Match transformation, the mapping that includes the transformation creates clusters of different sizes.

376295 An identity match mapping writes different index data to an Oracle index database and a Microsoft SQL Server database when the following cases are true:- You select the Clusters - Best Match option and the Filter Exact Match option on the Match transformation.- You run the mapping on a Linux operating system.

376271 When you deploy an application that contains a large number of objects, the application deployment fails with an out of memory error.

376070 When you configure a Match transformation to write identity index data to database tables, you cannot add the string DT to the storage table names.

376010 A match analysis mapping that writes identity index data to database tables fails on a Solaris 64-bit operating system.

375936 An identity match mapping writes generates incorrect clusters when you select the Clusters - Best Match option and the Filter Exact Match option on the Match transformation.

375769 An identity match mapping generates incorrect clusters when the following conditions are true:- The Match transformation updates the data in a persistent index data store.- The Match transformation input ports use a very high precision value, for example 4000.

375759 When you run an enterprise discovery profile on a data source with few rows, the Developer tool generates an error if the following conditions are true:- The data source has a documented primary key.- You excluded data objects with documented or user-defined keys from the profile run.

375419 When you run an SQL data service that contains a WHERE clause Pushdown to a VSAM source fails.

374824 An identity match mapping generates different numbers of output rows on a Linux operating system and an AIX operating system. The issue occurs when the mapping writes identity index data to database tables and you configure the Match transformation to generate matched pair output.

374766 The REST Web Service Consumer transformation encodes the special characters that you provide in the URL field.

374765 The connection associated with a REST Web Service Consumer disappears when you import a mapping that contains a REST Web Service Consumer transformation.

373891 An identity match mapping takes more time to write data to the identity index database tables as the number of rows in the index tables increases.

373752 If you provide partial URL arguments to the input port of a REST Web Service Consumer transformation, a mapping that contains the transformation fails.

372764 The assigned connection of a REST Web Service Consumer transformation disappears even if you type inside the connection field in the Advanced Properties tab of the transformation and clear the entry.

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372488 A mapping fails when it uses a JDBC connection to connect to an uncached lookup table.

371772 An identity match mapping generates clusters of different sizes when you run the mapping in one of the following configurations:- You configure the mapping to write the identity index data to temporary files.- You configure the mapping to write the identity index data to database tables and you select the Filter exact

Matches option.

371733 An identity match mapping generates clusters of different sizes when you run the mapping in one of the following configurations:- You configure the mapping to write the identity index data to temporary files.- You configure the mapping to write the identity index data to Microsoft SQL Server database tables and you

select the Clusters - Match All option.

370020 If you run a profile on a data source containing Float data type values, the Developer tool displays an incorrect sum of column values and data type inference results. The source columns in the profile results appear with truncated scale values.

368742 An identity match mapping fails to run when you select ports with a date data type or a decimal data type in a Match transformation strategy.

368607 When you run an enterprise discovery profile, the Developer tool generates an error if the following conditions are true:1. You created the profile by enabling all the profile options, such as column profile, data domain discovery,

and enterprise discovery.2. You ran the profile to generate the profile results.3. The Data Integration Service was idle for a long time before you ran the profile again.

368295 A mapping enabled for partitioning contains an IBM DB2 or Oracle relational source, no transformations, and a target. The Data Integration Service uses the maximum parallelism value to create the number of reader and writer threads. However, it uses only one reader thread and one writer thread if partitioning is not supported for the relational source.

367512 The Match transformation can generate empty data fields for pass-through ports.

358466 When a mapping with a Rank transformation runs in a Hive environment, the Data Integration Service can generate incorrect data for the rank index. Rank index values in the first rank group after the first row can be higher than expected based on the Hive queries generated and optimizations applied when you run the mapping.

355294 If you configure a Match transformation to perform dual-source identity analysis, the transformation generates a validation error when one of the following conditions is true:- You configure the transformation input ports in a different order for each data source.- You use an input port in more than one strategy in the transformation.

354883 The Developer tool does not display a data domain in a data domain group if the following conditions are true:1. Create a data domain from the value frequencies of a profile.2. Add the data domain to a data domain group.3. Refresh the Model Repository Service.

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284439 Validation errors appear and the mapping fails if the REST service provider does not return XML output for PUT, POST, and DELETE HTTP methods in a REST Web Service Consumer transformation.

222982 Bulk loading fails when you run a mapping that loads long varchar for bit data to an IBM DB2 database and the database server version is 9.1, the database client version is 9.5, and the Data Integration Service runs on SUSE Linux.

Informatica Developer Known Limitations


CR Description

393622 You cannot run a column profile on a data object, which includes column names that start with a non-ASCII special character, such as the ampersand, pound, or dollar sign.

393416 A partitioned mapping fails if you use the default merge file name to sequentially merge the target output for all partitions.Workaround: Change the default name of the merge file.

393023 When you run data preview on an Oracle table with a native SSL connection or you run a mapping that has an Oracle data object with a native SSL connection, the Developer tool shuts down unexpectedly.

392698 Workflow recovery fails when the Model repository is on a Microsoft SQL Server database and the workflow name contains non-ASCII characters. Workflow recovery fails with the following error: [WorkflowSvcMsg_10200] [WorkflowServiceImpl::recoverWorkflow]: [[ACTIVITIMSG_10064] Internal error. Cannot find deployment details corresponding to the workflow definition.

392354 The autolink feature in the Address Validator transformation does not display all of the output ports in use on the transformation.

392271 When an Expression transformation checks for empty strings, results vary for Oracle and flat file sources when the following conditions are true:- The optimizer level is Normal.- You are using pushdown optimization on the source.

391686 When a pair of services in the Informatica domain disconnect due to a network issue or service error, the services cannot reconnect automatically when the network issue is resolved if the service resiliency timeout period is exceeded.Workaround: Manually restore the connection by restarting the service that failed.

391616 If an Aggregator transformation generates a row error in an output port, the Data Integration Service ignores the default value of the port.

391448 You cannot pass values through the Input XML port of the REST Web Service Consumer transformation.

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391296 If you create a probabilistic model that contains multibyte data values, the values can break across lines in the Data view of the model. The issue arises if you resize the Developer tool views so that a data value moves from one line to another in the Data view. If you assign a label to a data value that breaks over two lines, the label might not attach to the correct value. The value that you label might overwrite another value in the Data view.Workaround: Resize the Developer tool views so that the data values do not break in the Data view.

389048 On AIX, SunOS, and HP-UX, a REST Web Service Consumer transformation gives NULL as the value for the response code port.

388590 If you copy mappings that contain a REST Web Service Consumer transformation from one domain to another, the connections assigned to the transformation refer to the connections in the original domain.Workaround: In the Developer tool, disconnect the Model Repository Service to which you copied the mappings and connect again. You can also reassign the connections to the REST Web Service Consumer transformation to use the connections in the destination domain.

387929 In a REST Web Service Consumer transformation, when you read a JSON response with the order indicator for a complex type element as all, the following error occurs if there are multiple instances of an element and the element is a child element of a complex type with the maxOccurs value as unbounded:The maxOccurs of a particle in an 'all' group must be 0 or 1. Workaround: Modify the JSON response schema definition to add the following order indicator: <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">

387899 When the Data Integration Service performs a cached lookup and an uncached lookup on Microsoft SQL Server Uniqueidentifier data types, it does not return the same number of rows.

387884 In bulk mode, Oracle timestamp characters take up 4 additional bytes of storage compared to the actual data length.

387197 In a REST Web Service Consumer transformation, when you select or clear the input or output option of the Map first level hierarchy property, the custom ports that you configured are cleared.

386221 If you define the method output definition for a non-reusable REST Web Service Consumer transformation after you create the transformation, the mapping does not load data to the target.Workaround: Define the method output definition for a non-reusable REST Web Service Consumer transformation when you create the transformation.

384319 You cannot import a WSDL file with two-way SSL authentication through an endpoint URL.Workaround: You can create the Web Service Consumer transformation by importing a locally stored WSDL file with two-way authentication.

380483 You cannot assign a parameter to Maximum Parallelism in the mapping run-time properties because the Assign Parameter dialog box does not list any parameters created for the mapping.

380190 When you search for physical data objects, flat file data objects do not appear in the search result.

375473 When an SQL data service query generates a long WHERE clause, pushdown to the source fails. For example, if an SQL query generates a WHERE clause of 61 KB or higher, pushdown to source fails.Workaround: You can reduce the optimizer level for the query or increase memory for the JVM that runs the Data Integration Service.

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CR Description

373751 You cannot list, create, or edit HTTP connections for a REST Web Service Consumer Transformation through the command line.

373679 When a mapping disabled for partitioning writes to a flat file target, the mapping fails when the following conditions are true:- The flat file target is configured to write to a command.- The Merge Command property contains a value, but the Command property does not.Workaround: Configure the flat file target to process target data for a single partition. Select no merge for the Merge Type and enter a command for the Command property.

373213 The changes to the input and output groups and elements of the transformation do not appear in the mapping canvas when a REST Web Service Consumer mapping is open.Workaround: Verify that the field, Map as first level hierarchy, in both input and output of the REST Web Service Consumer transformation is not selected when you save the mapping.

372815 You cannot save a mapping after you edit the non-reusable REST Web Service Consumer transformation in the mapping.Workaround: Verify that the field, Map as first level hierarchy, in both input and output of the REST Web Service Consumer transformation is not selected when you save the mapping.

372581 A workflow fails on a worker node that is in an English locale when the domain is in a Japanese locale. The workflow fails with a license not valid error.

371793 When a mapping contains multiple Match transformations, any change to the settings one of the Match transformations might affect the settings in another Match transformation. The issue occurs when the following conditions are true:- The Match transformations appear in sequence in the mapping data flow.- You configure the Match transformations to write identity index data to database tables.Workaround: Reconfigure the affected Match transformation.

371464 You cannot delete the link from RequestInput Group to Rest_Consumer_Input root element in a REST Web Service Consumer transformation.

368678 If the Data Integration Service becomes unavailable during data preview, the Developer tool continues to display the Run dialog box.Workaround: Cancel the current preview, and then verify that the Data Integration Service is available. Run preview again.

368294 When a mapping enabled for partitioning reads from a partitioned IBM DB2 source, the Data Integration Service does not reuse connection instances when connection pooling is enabled. The Data Integration Service drops each active connection instance instead of releasing it to the pool.

365290 In the Developer tool, test connection fails for a Web Service connection with NTLM authentication.

364086 A mapping enabled for partitioning fails when the mapping has one of the following configurations:- The mapping bulk loads to an Oracle target.- The mapping includes an Update Strategy transformation that flags rows for an update in the target.Workaround: Disable partitioning for a mapping that bulk loads to an Oracle target. Or, disable partitioning for a mapping that includes an Update Strategy transformation that flags rows for an update in the target.

361369 The Data Integration Service does not return an error when the SQL transformation calls a stored procedure with an OleDb connection and the stored procedure does not exist.

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361213 When you validate a mapping that contains an unconnected SQL transformation, the Developer tool does not generate a validation error.

360592 When you access an Oracle stored procedure from an SQL transformation, the Data Integration Service ignores fraction values for stored procedure parameters.

356755 The Key Generator transformation cannot generate unique sequence ID values in a Hadoop environment.

353486 When you change the precision of a field or change the order of fields in the method output definition, the mapping link in a REST Web Service Consumer transformation is removed.Workaround: Verify that the field, Map as first level hierarchy, in both input and output of the REST Web Service Consumer transformation, is not selected after you save the mapping.

342547 When you create a reference table from profile data in the Developer tool, you can edit the precision and scale for columns that use datetime, bigint, and integer data types.

255827 When you preview a relational data object, the session load summary in the log file does not list the rows rejected while reading data from the database as rejected rows.

235924 The Developer tool can specify a reference table as a parameter. It reads the parameter setting from a different tab based on whether you run the mapping or run a profile on the mapping.When you run the mapping, the Developer tool looks for the parameter on the Parameters tab. When you profile output from a mapping object, the Developer tool looks for the parameter on the Configuration tab.

224341 If you run a mapping that uses the ODBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server to write data to a Microsoft SQL Server resource, the Data Integration Service rejects all records that contain data of type hierarchyid.Workaround: Use the native Microsoft SQL Server driver instead of the ODBC driver.

215419 Mapping generates a core file on Solaris 64-bit if you enable Truncate Target Table for an IBM DB2 9.5.x target and you set the number of rows you want to preview to 0.

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CR Description

370626 On AIX, you cannot define the Informatica domain on a secure Oracle database. The infasetup defineDomain command fails with the following error:[informatica][Oracle JDBC Driver]SSL handshake failed: Received fatal alert: unexpected_message. Data Direct issue: 00257446 - Unable to connect to SSL enabled DB using JDBC from AIX.

313588 When you preview data for an SAP HANA source, for every source row, an extra null row appears. When you run a mapping, for every source row, an extra null row is written to the target.

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Metadata Manager Closed Enhancements


CR Description

373286 You can change the list of words that Metadata Manager ignores in searches.

Metadata Manager Fixed Limitations



CR Description

393423 In Metadata Manager, if the name of a related catalog object for a business term contains a space, the URL in the Analyst tool business glossary does not work.

389269 When you install the Metadata Manager Agent, configure it to run in HTTPS mode and then try to connect to it through the HTTPS port, the Metadata Manager Agent displays an SSL connection error.

388749 Loading Microstrategy resources on AIX fails when the Metadata Manager Service tries to create the IME files.

387371 When the Metadata Manager repository is an Oracle 11.2.0.3 or 11.2.0.4 database, linking for custom resources fails when there are many links to purge.

386723 If you install the Metadata Manager Agent and the agent home directory path contains a space, the Metadata Manager Agent fails to connect to the metadata source. The Metadata Manager Agent displays the following error:Version of MM Agent configured is not compatible with MM server.

382147 When you try to browse data for a Business Objects or Cognos resource, the Metadata Manager Service displays an error that says that it cannot retrieve data from the repository. The Metadata Manager Agent log file also displays an error that says that the user credentials are not valid.

381739 When you export a class in a custom resource, and the model uses the default date format, the date in the PDF export file does not match the date in the metadata source files.

380535 When you export data lineage to Microsoft Excel, empty date values get set to the system default date, January 1, 1970.

380349 When the Metadata Manager repository is a Microsoft SQL Server database, loading Informatica Platform resources fails if the source metadata contains values that exceed the integer value limit.

374955 Teradata view columns show a default value for the IsNullable property as yes when the IsNullable property is set to no for the corresponding columns in the metadata source.

372296 Loading OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 resources fails when the Metadata Manager Service tries to create the IME files.

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356513 The Metadata Manager installer installs two different copies of the file ImmMetadataConfig.dtd, but the copy in <Informatica installation directory>\services\shared\jars\pc\classes is not used.

354271 When you upgrade Metadata Manager from version 9.1.0 and the Metadata Manager repository is in a case-sensitive Microsoft SQL Server database, upgrade fails because the imw_feature_map table cannot be found.

352826 You cannot load a PowerCenter resource that contains an Expression transformation with comments that begin with the following string: //*

350121 When the PowerCenter repository is a versioned repository, links from a PowerCenter mapping to an Oracle target table sometimes do not appear in the data lineage diagram.

Metadata Manager Known Limitations


CR Description

393548 In Metadata Manager, if the name of a related catalog object for a business term contains a space as the first character, the corresponding data assets do not get updated in the Analyst tool business glossary. Also, if the name of a related catalog object for a business term contains any of the following characters, the URL in the Analyst tool business glossary does not work:` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) , / \ "

393545 When you create a business glossary resource from an Analyst tool business glossary in which a business term description contains a link to a different business term, Metadata Manager does not display the link properly.

393125 If you open the Metadata Manager login page in two tabs of a browser, log in and perform a task on the first tab, log in and perform a task on the second tab, and then go back to the first tab and try to perform a task, the Metadata Manager Service displays the following error message:This operation cannot be completed since the security token is invalid.

392215 When you recycle the Metadata Manager Service in a domain that uses Kerberos authentication, Metadata Manager users remain logged in to the Metadata Manager web application. If users try to use the web application, the web application displays the following error:The operation could not be completed since the security token is invalid.Workaround: Refresh the browser or close the window and log in to the Metadata Manager web application again.

390331 When you export a class in a custom resource and the model uses a custom date format, the date in the PDF export file does not match the date in the metadata source files.

389699 Metadata Manager sometimes generates rejection errors in S_M_STITCH_OBJECTS_LOAD when you load a versioned PowerCenter resource that is hosted on an Oracle database.

389629 A user who has the View Resource privilege can create a resource with the mmcmd createResource command.

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389601 A user who has the View Model privilege cannot get the load template for a custom model.

376602 If you create a Metadata Manager Service with the infacmd isp CreateMMService command, and you enter a code page description that is not valid, you can enable the service, but you cannot load resources.Workaround: Create the Metadata Manager Service through the Administrator tool.

348296 In Internet Explorer 10, Metadata Manager does not display the search icon and the Go button correctly in the Search list on the Browse tab.

304602 Parameter files are not parsed correctly for a PowerCenter resource with nested worklets if you specify the session parameter value in the workflow and in multiple nested worklets, and the session scope in the parameter file.

303420 When you simultaneously create the link between two resources that have a connection assignment with each other, the status of both the resources appears as Linking Successful;Some Linking Deferred.Workaround: Create the links for the resources again.

273665 The backupconfiguration command does not back up the schedules associated with resources and does not back up the refresh option specified for relational resources.

263633 When you load SAP R/3 resources simultaneously, the resources might not be loaded properly or a resource load might fail.

259473 The impact summary of an IBM DB2 alias does not show the impacted objects of the base object.

258486 On Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, you cannot create SAP R/3 resources when you use SAP JCo 3.0.6 libraries.Workaround: Install SAP JCo 3.0.3 libraries before you create the SAP R/3 resources. Contact Informatica Global Customer Support.

257943 An error occurs when you profile Netezza resources.

257706 You cannot view lineage in a detached window when you use Mozilla Firefox.Workaround: View lineage in non-detached mode or view lineage in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

256814 You cannot load a JDBC resource if you do not specify the correct path to the data direct JAR file.Workaround: Make sure that you specify the absolute path to the data driver file during JDBC resource configuration.

256672 Testing a connection to a JDBC resource on DB2/iSeries fails when you place the driver JAR file in a shared location.Workaround: Make sure that the JDBC driver JAR files are available on the same host as the Metadata Manager Agent.

255924 For a JDBC resource for DB2/iSeries, a view that is created on a table with a name longer than ten characters is not linked to the table.

255780 When there are multiple instances of the same worklet in a single workflow, the workflow names are listed multiple times when you assign the parameter file during PowerCenter resource configuration.

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255014 When you load a JDBC resource for DB2/iSeries, system-defined views are loaded along with user-defined views.

254260 When a single object is used in multiple locations, the Referring Struct Location value in the link report appears incorrect.

247629 The Custom Metadata Configurator displays errors for a workflow import if you generate the custom workflow again for a custom resource.Workaround: Remove the generated mappings and workflows from the Designer and Workflow Manager and generate the workflows from the Custom Metadata Configurator.

240743 Cannot restore the PowerCenter repository when the Metadata Manager Service runs on a worker node.Workaround: Verify that the PowerCenter repository has no content and enable the Metadata Manager Service.

237928 If you upgrade from version 8.6.1, data lineage displays links between source relational tables and PowerCenter source definitions and Source Qualifier transformations. Data lineage should display links between source relational tables and PowerCenter Source Qualifier transformations only.Workaround: Purge and then reload all PowerCenter resources. Recreate relationships from custom objects and business terms to PowerCenter metadata objects.

236963 You delete a user in the Informatica domain who is a data steward or owner for a category or a business term. However, Metadata Manager does not remove the deleted user from the data steward or owner assignment.Workaround: After deleting a user who is a data steward or owner for a category or business term, reassign another user as the data steward or owner.

232802 When the Metadata Manager repository is on a database that contains multibyte data, Metadata Manager cannot send an email notification when you propose a business term for review.

Metadata Manager Third-Party Known Limitations


CR Description

370702 You cannot create an Oracle resource when secure communication is enabled for the Oracle metadata source. Similarly, you cannot set up the Metadata Manager repository on an Oracle database when secure communication is enabled.Oracle SR number: 3-8287328531

Design API Fixed Limitations


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CR Description

381593 The Design API does not allow you to secure a connection to the source or target even if you enable Kerberos authentication.

376785 The Design API requires you to specify the user name and password to list objects or connections even if you set the KERBEROS_ENABLED property to true in the pcconfig.properties file.

Design API Known Limitations


CR Description

288780 If you use the Design API to create a BAPI transformation, you cannot partition the BAPI transformation.

Informatica Connector Toolkit Fixed Limitations



CR Description

378469 The Informatica Connector Toolkit fails to deploy or install the adapter on PowerCenter Express.

377198 The Informatica Connector Toolkit does not publish the adapter successfully if the third-party libraries that the adapter requires are read‐only files.

376241 The Data Integration Service shuts down if the message parameter in the logMessage method is null.

375856 The Informatica Connector Toolkit does not support decimal data type when you read from or write to the data source.

375386 If you set the name of a connection attribute to 'name' and add allowed values for that connection attribute, you cannot create a connection of the corresponding connection type in the Developer tool.

374794 When you generate code, you get compilation errors if the first character is a number, for fields such as Connector ID, Connector Name, Vendor ID, Vendor Name, Name, or Type Name.

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CR Description

393070 When you create a connector, the Informatica Connector Toolkit does not release the locks on the codebuilder.log and ict.log files. You cannot delete locked log files from your file system.Workaround: To remove the lock on the log files, exit Eclipse.

390496 The Test Connection, Test Metadata, Test Read, and Test Write wizards in the Informatica Connector Toolkit do not indicate that an attribute is a hidden attribute.

390363 The Test Write wizard does not display an error message if you incorrectly increase the precision of the generated test data.Workaround: Do not modify the precision of the generated test data.

376980 The Informatica Connector Toolkit does not provide an option to add an error key and its corresponding error message to the AdapterNameBundle.properties resource file.Workaround: Switch to the Java perspective and then open the properties file. After you add the error key and message to the properties file, publish the adapter without regenerating the code.

370283 The Informatica Connector Toolkit does not provide a method to pass information on the number of rows rejected by the Data Transformation Manager to the adapter.

368779 The Informatica Connector Toolkit does not validate attributes and does not update dependent attributes when it tests connection to a data source.

350710 After you generate code, if you update the import options in the Import Dialog Settings page, the Informatica Connector Toolkit does not update the user-exposed source code with the import option changes.

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Documents

Informatica - 9.6.1 HotFix 2 - Release Notes - (English) · Informatica Installation Dropped Support D r o p p e d S u p p o r t i n V e r s i o n 9 . 6 . 1 Effective in version 9.6.1,