Informatica学习笔记——第三部分——基本概念

1. PowerCenter Client

The PowerCenter Client application consists of the tools to manage the repository and to design mappings, mapplets, and sessions to load the data. The PowerCenter Client application has the following tools:

•Designer. Use the Designer to create mappings that contain transformation instructions for the Integration Service.

•Mapping Architect for Visio. Use the Mapping Architect for Visio to create mapping templates that generate multiple mappings.

•Repository Manager. Use the Repository Manager to assign permissions to users and groups and manage folders.

•Workflow Manager. Use the Workflow Manager to create, schedule, and run workflows. A workflow is a set of instructions that describes how and when to run tasks related to extracting, transforming, and loading data.

•Workflow Monitor. Use the Workflow Monitor to monitor scheduled and running workflows for each Integration Service.

•iReports Designer. Use iReports Designer to design reports that can be viewed in JasperReports Server. For more information about using iReports Designer, see the Jaspersoft documentation.
Install the client application on a Microsoft Windows computer.

 

2. PowerCenter Designer

The Designer has the following tools that you use to analyze sources, design target schemas, and build source-to-target mappings:

•Source Analyzer. Import or create source definitions.

•Target Designer. Import or create target definitions.

•Transformation Developer. Develop transformations to use in mappings. You can also develop user-defined functions to use in expressions.

•Mapplet Designer. Create sets of transformations to use in mappings.

•Mapping Designer. Create mappings that the Integration Service uses to extract, transform, and load data.
You can display the following windows in the Designer:

•Navigator. Connect to repositories and open folders within the Navigator. You can also copy objects and create shortcuts within the Navigator.

•Workspace. Open different tools in this window to create and edit repository objects, such as sources, targets, mapplets, transformations, and mappings.•Output. View details about tasks you perform, such as saving your work or validating a mapping.

3.Repository Manager

Use the Repository Manager to administer repositories. You can navigate through multiple folders and repositories, and complete the following tasks:

•Manage user and group permissions. Assign and revoke folder and global object permissions.

•Perform folder functions. Create, edit, copy, and delete folders. Work you perform in the Designer and Workflow Manager is stored in folders. If you want to share metadata, you can configure a folder to be shared.

•View metadata. Analyze sources, targets, mappings, and shortcut dependencies, search by keyword, and view the properties of repository objects.
The Repository Manager can display the following windows:

•Navigator. Displays all objects that you create in the Repository Manager, the Designer, and the Workflow Manager. It is organized first by repository and by folder.

•Main. Provides properties of the object selected in the Navigator. The columns in this window change depending on the object selected in the Navigator.

•Output. Provides the output of tasks executed within the Repository Manager.

4. Repository Objects

You create repository objects using the Designer and Workflow Manager client tools. You can view the following objects in the Navigator window of the Repository Manager:

•Source definitions. Definitions of database objects such as tables, views, synonyms, or files that provide source data.

•Target definitions. Definitions of database objects or files that contain the target data.

•Mappings. A set of source and target definitions along with transformations containing business logic that you build into the transformation. These are the instructions that the Integration Service uses to transform and move data.

•Reusable transformations. Transformations that you use in multiple mappings.

•Mapplets. A set of transformations that you use in multiple mappings.

•Sessions and workflows. Sessions and workflows store information about how and when the Integration Service moves data. A workflow is a set of instructions that describes how and when to run tasks related to extracting, transforming, and loading data. A session is a type of task that you can put in a workflow. Each session corresponds to a single mapping.

 

5.Workflow Manager

In the Workflow Manager, you define a set of instructions to execute tasks such as sessions, emails, and shell commands. This set of instructions is called a workflow.

The Workflow Manager has the following tools to help you develop a workflow:

•Task Developer. Create tasks you want to accomplish in the workflow.

•Worklet Designer. Create a worklet in the Worklet Designer. A worklet is an object that groups a set of tasks. A worklet is similar to a workflow, but without scheduling information. You can nest worklets inside a workflow.

•Workflow Designer. Create a workflow by connecting tasks with links in the Workflow Designer. You can also create tasks in the Workflow Designer as you develop the workflow.
When you create a workflow in the Workflow Designer, you add tasks to the workflow. The Workflow Manager includes tasks, such as the Session task, the Command task, and the Email task so you can design a workflow. The Session task is based on a mapping you build in the Designer.
You then connect tasks with links to specify the order of execution for the tasks you created. Use conditional links and workflow variables to create branches in the workflow.
When the workflow start time arrives, the Integration Service retrieves the metadata from the repository to execute the tasks in the workflow. You can monitor the workflow status in the Workflow Monitor.

6. MainWorkflow Monitor

You can monitor workflows and tasks in the Workflow Monitor. You can view details about a workflow or task in Gantt Chart view or Task view. You can run, stop, abort, and resume workflows from the Workflow Monitor. You can view sessions and workflow log events in the Workflow Monitor Log Viewer.

The Workflow Monitor displays workflows that have run at least once. The Workflow Monitor continuously receives information from the Integration Service and Repository Service. It also fetches information from the repository to display historic information.
The Workflow Monitor consists of the following windows:

•Navigator window. Displays monitored repositories, servers, and repositories objects.

•Output window. Displays messages from the Integration Service and Repository Service.

•Time window. Displays progress of workflow runs.

•Gantt Chart view. Displays details about workflow runs in chronological format.

•Task view. Displays details about workflow runs in a report format.