Unique Technique of working with Informatica in Oracle

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You may know or may not that Informatica has pecular repository and methods of change propagations that are not all so "simple" least said.

Informatica is ETL, extraction transformation language, a tool serving wide array of data transformation tasks.

Here I'm trying to facilitate its repository which is basically Informatica's internal database . The problem is that this database is not very easily accessible. There are tools provided by Informatica which cost a lot and not widely used because of that. I'm trying here to show a way around to use the repository.

If Your Informatica is installed on Oracle Server this is what You can do:

1. Create dblink to your Informatica server
2. Create directories on your Informatica server:
  
create directory R_BAD as '/etl/stage001/BadFiles/R/'

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3. Create some structures to automatically create external tables in the directory

Then You can use following code to ncreate views:
  
create view v_infa_source_logs (source_name,
                                                                              mapping_name,
                                                                              target_name
                                                                             )
                      AS
                         SELECT NVL (s.source_name, 'NO SOURCE') source_name, t.mapping_name,
                                t.target_name
                           FROM informatica.rep_src_mapping@p_etl s,
                                informatica.rep_targ_mapping@p_etl t,
                                informatica.rep_sess_tbl_log@p_etl l
                      --  WHERE
                         WHERE  t.mapping_name = s.mapping_name
                            AND s.subject_area = 'PROD'
                            AND s.subject_area = l.subject_area
                            AND s.source_name = l.table_name

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Now you have unique ability to run the comparisons of your database data with the Informatica server data (see example) and create views pointing there.
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oleggold

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Commented:
mrjoltcola,
Thanks for Your comments.
I do think this article almost adhers to the guidlins,let me put those inside ,I agree,I wrote it for experts,I'll try to refrase and yes,English is not my 1st language.
Ok,let's try:
1. A statement of the problem being resolved or issue being discussed
You may know or may not that Informatica has pecular repository and methods of change propagations that are not all so "simple" least said.
That meaning Informatica is ETL,extraction transformation language, tool serving wide array of data transformation tasks.
Here I'm trying to facilitate it's repository which is basically  Informatica internal database . The problem is that this database is not very easily accessible. There are tools provided by Informatica which cost a lot and not widely used because of that. I'm trying here to show a way around to use gthe repository.
2. A description of the resolution of the problem
Let's say You've created a  dblink to Your Infa repository.
Then You can use following code to ncreate views:
create view v_infa_source_logs (source_name,
                                                        mapping_name,
                                                        target_name
                                                       )
AS
   SELECT NVL (s.source_name, 'NO SOURCE') source_name, t.mapping_name,
          t.target_name
     FROM informatica.rep_src_mapping@p_etl s,
          informatica.rep_targ_mapping@p_etl t,
          informatica.rep_sess_tbl_log@p_etl l
--  WHERE
   WHERE  t.mapping_name = s.mapping_name
      AND s.subject_area = 'PROD'
      AND s.subject_area = l.subject_area
      AND s.source_name = l.table_name


3. A summary of the above two segments.
In summary.we can use simple Oracle methods to explore Infa repository and have it handy to the users
oleggold

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Commented:
oh,and sorry,the most important for novice would be that the above query can be used in an excel worksheet but that in itself a topic for another article,sorry ,very little time:)

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