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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788471220
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rahul Malewar Rahul Malewar
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Preface 1. Downloading and Extracting Informatica PowerCenter Software FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Admin Console 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

Decision task


You can control the execution of the Workflow by defining the condition in the decision task. Decision task allows you to specify the condition using which you can control the execution of branches in a Workflow. In other words, you can check the condition of multiple tasks and, based on that, decide whether you wish to trigger the next task or not.

Consider the workflow shown in the next screenshot. As you can see, the session task should be triggered only if the status of all the three tasks is successful. We can define the condition in the three link tasks, but the problem in that case will be that the session task will be triggered even if one command task is successful. This issue can be resolved using the decision task. You can define the condition in the decision task that will make the session task execute only if all the three command tasks are successful.

Creating a Decision task

To create a Decision task in Workflow Manager, follow these steps:

  1. In Workflow Manager, go...
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