Mapping Creation in Informatica PowerCenter

Mar 21, 2019

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Source Analyzer:

    • Go to tools menu >select Source Analyzer as shown in below screenshot.
    • Go to sources (from menu bar) To import the source tables from database. As shown in below screenshot.
    • Provide the user ID and Password to connect to the DB and to import required tables.

Target Designer:

    • Go to tools menu >select Target Designer as shown in below screenshot.
    • Go to target (from the menu bar) To import the target tables from the database. As shown in below screenshot.
    • Provide the user ID and Password to connect to the DB and to import required tables.
    • Will see the Source and Targets are imported from our data base.
    • Drag the source table from source analyser, target table from target analyser in Designer page.

Mapping Designer:

    • Go to Mapping> (from tools bar) to create new Mapping as shown below screenshot.
    • Create New Mapping with respective name E.g. (m_booksmapping), m_ is naming convention for mapping creation.
    • Drag and Drop target and source in mapping from the respective Windows in a designer as shown below screenshot.
    • Connect all the column fields from source to source qualifier in mapping designer as shown in below screen shot.
    • Connect all the column names from source qualifier to target in mapping designer as shown in below screenshot.

Save mapping.

Workflow Manager:

    • Go to Work Flow manager –>to create workflow and task for the session for the mapping process.
    • Create new workflow: Give the name to workflow with given naming convention wf_booksworkflow and then click on ok.
    • Created workflow will be shown in below screen shot.

Session:

Go to Work Flow manager à to create the task for the session in the mapping process.

    • Create new Session: Give a name to session with given naming convention s_bookssession and then click on 
    • After creating session for a mapping, it will allow to choose respective mapping click on ok.
    • Now we will get a window for the created task as shown below, click on done.

EDIT TASK:

We have to edit task such that make sure all the source and targets must be connected to the respective database as shown in below screenshot and click on OK.

NOTE: If the target table contains any primary keys then target load type should not be Bulk.

    • Create a link between session and worklet as shown in below screenshot. Save the workflow designer.
    • Go to workflows and click on start workflow to start workflow for the mapping process.

Work Flow Monitor:

    • Click on workflow monitor to see the output of mapping result (status of mapping should be succeeded)
    • To check the task Details, right click on the session to get run properties. Please find the below screenshot.

OUTPUT of Sample Mapping:

    • Source Table Before Mapping Process
    • Below is the OutPut (Target table) After Mapping Process

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