Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

You're reading from   Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x Enterprise data warehousing and intelligent data centers for efficient data management solutions

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781788471220
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Rahul Malewar Rahul Malewar
Author Profile Icon Rahul Malewar
Rahul Malewar
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Downloading and Extracting Informatica PowerCenter Software 2. Understanding Admin Console FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Designer Screen and its Components 4. The Lifeline of Informatica - Transformations 5. Using the Designer Screen - Advanced Features 6. Implementing SCD Using Designer Screen Wizards 7. Using the Workflow Manager Screen 8. Learning Various Tasks in Workflow Manager screen 9. Advanced Features of Workflow Manager Screen 10. Working with Workflow Monitor - Monitoring the code 11. The Deployment Phase - Using Repository Manager 12. Optimization - Performance Tuning

Creating a workflow


A workflow is a combination of multiple tasks connected with links that trigger the proper sequence to execute a process. Every workflow contains a Start task along with other tasks. When you execute the workflow, you actually trigger a Start task, which in turn, triggers other tasks connected in the flow.

The following figure shows a sample workflow:

Informatica PowerCenter provides options to create workflows manually and automatically, which are discussed in the following sections.

Creating a workflow manually

To create a workflow manually, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Workflow Manager, navigate to Workflows | Create:

  1. Specify the name of the workflow. Read the naming conventions to be followed while working on the PowerCenter tool. Use the link, http://www.dw-learnwell.com/informatica/naming_conventions.pdf, to download the Naming Convention document. The name of the workflow should be wf_WORKFLOWNAME and click on OK. We are using wf_PASS_THROUGH as the workflow name...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime