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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Informatica Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Informatica My Support Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Informatica Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Informatica Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Informatica How-To Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Informatica Knowledge Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Informatica Support YouTube Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Informatica Marketplace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Informatica Velocity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv

Chapter 1: New Features and Enhancements (9.5.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Version 9.5.1 HotFix 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PowerCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PowerExchange Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Version 9.5.1 HotFix 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Informatica Data Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Informatica Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PowerCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PowerCenter Big Data Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
PowerExchange Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Version 9.5.1 HotFix 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Informatica Data Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Command Line Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Informatica Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Informatica Data Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Informatica Data Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
PowerCenter Big Data Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
PowerExchange Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Version 9.5.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Informatica Installer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Informatica Data Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Informatica Data Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Informatica Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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 Informatica Development Platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Command Line Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
PowerCenter Big Data Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
PowerExchange Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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Preface
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available on the Marketplace, you can improve your productivity and speed up time to implementation on
your projects. You can access Informatica Marketplace at http://www.informaticamarketplace.com.

Informatica Velocity
You can access Informatica Velocity at http://mysupport.informatica.com. Developed from the real-world
experience of hundreds of data management projects, Informatica Velocity represents the collective
knowledge of our consultants who have worked with organizations from around the world to plan, develop,
deploy, and maintain successful data management solutions. If you have questions, comments, or ideas
about Informatica Velocity, contact Informatica Professional Services at [email protected].

Informatica Global Customer Support

You can contact a Customer Support Center by telephone or through the Online Support.

Online Support requires a user name and password. You can request a user name and password at
http://mysupport.informatica.com.

The telephone numbers for Informatica Global Customer Support are available from the Informatica web site
at http://www.informatica.com/us/services-and-training/support-services/global-support-centers/.

iv Preface
CHAPTER 1

New Features and Enhancements

(9.5.1)
This chapter includes the following topics:

• Version 9.5.1 HotFix 3, 1

• Version 9.5.1 HotFix 2, 3
• Version 9.5.1 HotFix 1, 7
• Version 9.5.1, 14

Version 9.5.1 HotFix 3

This section describes new features and enhancements in version 9.5.1 HotFix 3.

PowerCenter
This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerCenter.

Data Masking
You can configure the following session properties for the Data Masking transformation:

• Name the owner of the substitution dictionary table when you configure substitution masking.
• Name the owner of the IDM_SUBSTITUTION_STORAGE or IDM_EXPRESSION_STORAGE table when
you configure repeatable expression or unique repeatable substitution masking.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 3 Transformation Guide.

Metadata Manager
This section describes new features and enhancements to Metadata Manager.

JDBC Resources
When you configure a JDBC resource, you can specify optional data structures to import such as keys,
indexes, and stored procedures.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 3 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

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 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Resources
You can optimize resource loads for large OBIEE resources. Enable the Optimize for large models
configuration property to prevent Metadata Manager from loading metadata such foreign keys, joins,
relationships, and logical foreign keys.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 3 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

PowerExchange Adapters
This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerExchange adapters.

Adapters for PowerCenter

PowerExchange for Hadoop for PowerCenter

PowerExchange for Hadoop supports IBM InfoSphere BigInsights version 2.1 to access Hadoop sources
and targets.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Hadoop 9.5.1 HotFix 3 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Salesforce for PowerCenter

You can configure a CDC flush interval offset to capture real-time data that is submitted within the CDC
time limit but not committed by Salesforce within the time limit.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce 9.5.1 HotFix 3 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for MongoDB for PowerCenter

You can use PowerExchange for MongoDB to extract data from and load to a MongoDB database.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for MongoDB for 9.5.1 HotFix 3 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Ultra Messaging for PowerCenter

• You use PowerExchange for Ultra Messaging to connect to Ultra Messaging Streaming and
Persistence sources and targets.
• You can use Unicast Immediate Messaging (UIM) to publish topics on TCP streams or topic streams.
• You can use wildcards to configure receiving applications to match multiple topics.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Ultra Messaging for 9.5.1 HotFix 3 User
Guide for PowerCenter.

Adapters for Informatica

PowerExchange for MongoDB

You can use Informatica Developer to create a MongoDB ODBC data object, specify resources, and
create a data object operation. You can use the data object operation as a source or target in the
mappings. You can also use Informatica Developer to create profiles and scorecards on a MongoDB
ODBC data object.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for MongoDB 9.5.1 HotFix 3 User Guide.

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Version 9.5.1 HotFix 2
This section describes new features and enhancements in version 9.5.1 HotFix 2.

Informatica Data Quality

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Quality.

Address Validator Transformation

The transformation delivers the following enhancements in Canadian address validation:

• You can change the language that the transformation uses to write a street descriptor or a Province name.
You can change the language to English or to French. For example you can change "Street" to "Rue."
• You can return the thirteen-character locality code that identifies a locality.
• You can return the rural route identifier for an address.
The transformation delivers the following enhancements in French address validation:

• You can verify and correct addresses to the certification standards of the French National Address
Management Service (SNA). SNA certifies the address validation software to verify and correct French
address to street level.
• You can return the CEDEXA identifier for a mail center or postal facility.
The transformation delivers the following enhancements in Serbian address validation:

• You can add the PAK postal address code to a Serbian address. The six-digit PAK code identifies the
street that contains the address mailbox.
The transformation delivers the following enhancements in United Kingdom address validation:

• You can add Unique Delivery Point Reference Number (UDPRN) data to a United Kingdom address. The
UDPRN is an eight-digit code that uniquely identifies a United Kingdom address.
The transformation extends the range of status codes that the following ports can return for an address:

• Address Resolution Code. The port returns an alphanumeric code that describes the status of non-valid
address elements in an address.
• Extended Element Status. The port returns an alphanumeric code that supplements the status data on the
Element Input Status port and Element Result Status port.
For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Address Validator Port Reference and Informatica 9.5.1
HotFix 2 Developer Transformation Guide.

Data Masking
The Data Masking transformation can mask integer and bigint data for phone number masking.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Developer Transformation Guide.

Import From PowerCenter

When you import PowerCenter objects in the Developer tool, you can assign a single connection in the Model
repository to multiple PowerCenter objects at the same time. You can assign a single connection to all
sources, all targets, all Lookup transformations, or all objects that do not have an assigned connection. Or,
you can assign a single connection to all objects with names that match a specified name pattern.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Developer User Guide.

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 Informatica Data Services
This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Services.

Data Masking
The Data Masking transformation can mask integer and bigint data for phone number masking.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Developer Transformation Guide.

Import From PowerCenter

When you import PowerCenter objects in the Developer tool, you can assign a single connection in the Model
repository to multiple PowerCenter objects at the same time. You can assign a single connection to all
sources, all targets, all Lookup transformations, or all objects that do not have an assigned connection. Or,
you can assign a single connection to all objects with names that match a specified name pattern.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Developer User Guide.

Informatica Domain
This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Domain.

Informatica Administrator
You can search the Informatica Knowledge Base from the Administrator tool. You can also, click an error
message code to view the search results for the error in the Informatica Knowledge Base.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Administrator Guide.

Connectivity
You can create a connection to an Oracle database with the Oracle Advanced Security (OAS) option enabled
using the DataDirect JDBC driver.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Installation Guide.

PowerCenter
This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerCenter.

Data Masking
The Data Masking transformation can mask integer and bigint data for phone number masking.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Transformation Guide.

PowerCenter Big Data Edition

This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerCenter Big Data Edition.

Mappings in a Hive Environment

You can run mappings in a Hive environment with MapR 2.1.2 and Hortonworks 1.1 distribution.

For more information, see PowerCenter Big Data Edition 9.5.1 HotFix 2 User Guide.

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Metadata Manager
This section describes new features and enhancements to Metadata Manager.

Metadata Extraction Performance Improvements

To increase metadata extraction performance for Business Objects, Cognos, and Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) resources, the Metadata Manager Agent can use multiple worker
threads for metadata extraction. The Metadata Manager Agent calculates the optimal number of threads
based on the JVM architecture and number of available CPU cores on the machine that runs the Metadata
Manager Agent. You can also configure the number of threads manually.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

Resource Types
You can create the following resource types:

• Business Objects 14.0 SP6

• Cognos 10.2. Previously, you could create Cognos resources up to version 10.1.
• ERwin 9.1 (File)
• ERwin 9.1 (Single Model from mart)
For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

Oracle ASO Support

You can create an Oracle resource when the Oracle database uses the Oracle Advanced Security Option
(ASO). You can also create a Metadata Manager repository on an Oracle database that uses the Advanced
Security Option.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 2 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

PowerExchange Adapters
This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerExchange adapters.

Adapters for PowerCenter

PowerExchange for Hadoop for PowerCenter

PowerExchange for Hadoop supports MapR 2.1.2 and EMC Greenplum PivotalHD 2.0.1 to access
Hadoop sources and targets.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Hadoop 9.5.1 HotFix 2 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Salesforce for PowerCenter

You can configure a CDC flush interval offset to capture real-time data that is submitted within the CDC
time limit but not committed by Salesforce within the time limit.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce 9.5.1.2.1 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Salesforce for PowerCenter

• In Salesforce Bulk API sessions, the PowerCenter Integration Service can permanently delete rows
from the target machine.
• You can configure the directory for the Bulk API error log file.
• You can configure the polling interval for a Bulk API session.

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 For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce 9.5.1 HotFix 2 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API

You can specify how Teradata PT API marks error rows when it attempts to update or delete multiple
rows in the target table. You can mark extra rows with any of the following values:

• None
• For update
• For delete
• Both

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API 9.5.1
HotFix 2 User Guide for PowerCenter.

Adapters for Informatica

PowerExchange for DataSift

Use the PowerExchange for Social Media 9.5.1 HotFix 2 installer to install PowerExchange for DataSift.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for DataSift 9.5.1 Hot Fix 2 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Facebook

• PowerExchange for Facebook uses the Facebook API to control the number of rows that you request
when a mapping runs.
• Use the PowerExchange for Social Media 9.5.1 HotFix 2 installer to install PowerExchange for
Facebook.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Facebook 9.5.1 Hot Fix 2 User Guide.

PowerExchange for LinkedIn

• PowerExchange for LinkedIn uses the LinkedIn API to control the number of rows that you request
when a mapping runs.
• You can specify the profile query parameter in new formats.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for LinkedIn 9.5.1 Hot Fix 2 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Twitter

PowerExchange for Twitter uses the Twitter API to control the number of rows that you request when a
mapping runs.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Twitter 9.5.1 Hot Fix 2 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Web Content-Kapow Katalyst

Use the PowerExchange for Social Media 9.5.1 HotFix 2 installer to install PowerExchange for Web
Content-Kapow Katalyst.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Web Content-Kapow Katalyst 9.5.1 Hot Fix 2
User Guide.

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Version 9.5.1 HotFix 1
This section describes new features and enhancements in version 9.5.1 HotFix 1.

Informatica Data Quality

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Quality.

Accelerators
Informatica country accelerators include rules that calculate geographic coordinates for an address location.

The Core Accelerator includes rules that perform the following types of analysis:

• Calculate the distance between two geographic coordinates.

• Determine if a geographic coordinate falls inside or outside a set of coordinates that form a polygon
shape.
For more information, see Informatica Data Quality 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Accelerator Guide.

Address Validator Transformation

The Address Validator transformation adds the following types of validation data and enrichment data to
address records:

• Validation status indicators for New Zealand addresses, including the SendRight validation standard that
New Zealand Post defines for certified addresses.
• Validation for address elements to delivery point level in New Zealand addresses.
• Locality ISO code values for Australian addresses.
• Extended validation status indicators for data elements in all addresses.
You can specify the maximum number of address suggestions that the Address Validator transformation
returns in suggestion list mode.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Address Validator Port Reference.

Classifier Models
You can perform the following classifier model operations in the Developer tool:

• Create a classifier model.

• Add label values and data values to a classifier model.
• Assign labels to data rows
• Edit label names.
• Filter the data rows that display in a classifier model.
• Search data rows for data values.
• Copy and paste classifier models between content sets in the Model repository.
For more information, see Informatica Data Quality 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Classifier Transformation
You can configure a Classifier transformation to generate a classifier score for each row of input data.

A classifier score represents the degree of similarity between the input data and the classifier model that the
transformation uses to analyze the input data.

A high percentage score indicates a high degree of similarity.

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 For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer Transformation Guide.

Look Up Business Terms from Informatica Developer

Look up the meaning of a Model repository object name as a business term in the Business Glossary
Desktop to understand its business requirement and current implementation.

You can select an object in the Developer tool and use hotkeys or the Search menu to look up the name of
the object in the Business Glossary Desktop. You can look up the names of objects in the Object Explorer
such as the names of reference data objects. You can look up the names of elements in the mapping editor
such as transformation port names.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Developer User Guide and Informatica Data Quality
9.5.1 HotFix 1 Analyst User Guide.

Pushdown Optimization Enhancements

You can push transformation logic for an Aggregator transformation and a Sorter transformation to a
relational source database.

For more information see the Informatica Developer 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Reference Tables
You can perform the following operations on reference tables:

• You can edit unmanaged reference table data in the Developer tool and Analyst tool. You can edit
unmanaged reference table metadata in the Analyst Tool.
• You can remove unused tables from the reference data warehouse. When you delete a reference table
object from the Model repository, the associated tables in the reference data warehouse are no longer
used by Informatica.
Run the infacmd cms Purge command to remove all unused tables from the reference data database. Or,
use the Content Management Service options in the Administrator tool.
For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Command Reference and Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1
Administrator Guide.

Workflows
If you enable a workflow for recovery, you can recover a workflow instance from the point of interruption. You
interrupt a workflow when you abort or cancel the workflow instance. A Data Integration Service interrupts a
workflow when the service shuts down unexpectedly.

Use the Developer tool to enable a workflow for recovery. When you enable a workflow for recovery, you
must define a recovery strategy for each Command, Mapping, and Notification task in the workflow. A task
recovery strategy defines how the Data Integration Service completes an interrupted task during a workflow
recovery run. A Command, Mapping, and Notification task can have a restart or a skip recovery strategy. A
Human task always has a restart strategy.

Use the Monitoring tab of the Administrator tool or use the infacmd wfs command line programs to recover
aborted or canceled workflow instances that you enabled for recovery.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Developer Workflow Guide.

Informatica Domain
This section describes new features and enhancements to the Informatica domain.

Recover Workflows
When you monitor workflows, you can recover aborted or canceled workflow instances that are enabled for
recovery. A workflow instance has an aborted state if a task with a restart recovery strategy encounters a

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 recoverable error, if you abort the workflow instance, or if the Data Integration Service process shuts down
unexpectedly. A workflow instance has a canceled state if you cancel the workflow instance.

When you recover a workflow instance, the Data Integration Service restarts or skips the interrupted task
based on the task recovery strategy. The service continues processing the subsequent workflow objects.

When you upgrade a domain that contains aborted or canceled workflow instances, you cannot recover the
upgraded workflow instances because the deployed workflow definitions are not enabled for recovery.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Administrator Guide.

Command Line Programs

This section describes new and changed commands and options for the Informatica command line programs.

infacmd cms Commands

The following table describes a new infacmd cms command:

Command Description

Purge Deletes data that is not used by a reference table object from the reference data database.

infacmd oie Commands

The following table describes a new infacmd oie command:

Command Description

exportResources Exports scorecard objects and lineage information in a project or folder to an XML file that
you use in Metadata Manager.

infacmd pwx Commands

The following table describes a deprecated infacmd pwx command:

Command Description

DisplayCheckpointsLogger No longer displays checkpoint information for a PowerExchange Logger Service

because the PowerExchange Logger no longer uses checkpoint files. If you enter
this command, the PowerExchange Logger reports that the command is not valid.

infacmd wfs Commands

The following table describes new infacmd wfs commands:

Command Description

abortWorkflow Aborts a running workflow instance.

cancelWorkflow Cancels a running workflow instance.

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 Command Description

listActiveWorkflowInstances Lists active workflow instances. An active workflow instance is an instance on

which an action can be performed.

recoverWorkflow Recovers an interrupted workflow instance.

pmrep Commands
The following table describes an updated pmrep command:

Command Description

RollbackDeployment Contains the following new options:

- -repositoryname (-r). Optional. Name of the source repository from where you deploy the
deployment group.
- -nth_latest_version_of_deployment_group (-v). Optional. Version of the deployment group
you want to roll back.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Command Reference.

Informatica Data Services

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Services.

Look Up Business Terms

In the Analyst tool or Developer tool, you can look up the meaning of a Model repository object name as a
business term in the Business Glossary Desktop to understand its business requirement and current
implementation.

You can select an object in the Analyst tool, and use hotkeys to look up the name of the object in the
Business Glossary Desktop. You can look up names of objects in Analyst tool views such as the Properties
view or Navigator, or names of columns, profiles, and mapping specifications and transformation objects.

You can select an object in the Developer tool, and use hotkeys or the Search menu to look up the name of
the object in the Business Glossary Desktop. You can look up names of objects in Developer tool views such
as the Object Explorer view or editor, or names of columns, profiles, and mapping ports in the editor.

For more information see the Informatica Data Integration Analyst 9.5.1 User Guide and the Informatica
Developer 9.5.1 User Guide.

Mapping Specification Enhancements

In the Analyst tool, you can duplicate a target column or move a target column up or down.

You can search for a data object when you add a source or a lookup to a mapping specification. You can also
search for a reusable rule when you apply a rule to a mapping specification.

Pushdown Optimization Enhancements

You can push transformation logic for an Aggregator transformation and a Sorter transformation to a
relational source database.

For more information see the Informatica Developer 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

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Informatica Data Explorer
This section describes the new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Explorer.

Look Up Business Terms

Look up the meaning of a Model repository object name as a business term in the Business Glossary
Desktop to understand its business requirement and current implementation.

You can select an object in the Analyst tool, and use hotkeys to look up the name of the object in the
Business Glossary Desktop. You can look up names of objects in Analyst tool views such as the Properties
view or Navigator, or names of columns and profiles.

You can select an object in the Developer tool, and use hotkeys or the Search menu to look up the name of
the object in the Business Glossary Desktop. You can look up names of objects in Developer tool views such
as the Object Explorer view or editor, or names of columns and profiles in the editor.

For more information, see Informatica Data Explorer 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Scorecard Lineage
View a scorecard lineage diagram for a scorecard metric or metric group in Informatica Analyst. Use
scorecard lineage to analyze the root cause of unacceptable score variance for a metric or metric group and
understand the data flow. To view the scorecard lineage diagram, export scorecards to an XML file from
Informatica Developer. Use the exported XML file to create and load a resource file in Metadata Manager.
The name of the resource file that you create and load in Metadata Manager must use the following naming
convention: <MRS name>_<project name>. You can then launch scorecard lineage from Informatica Analyst.

For more information, see Informatica Data Explorer 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Informatica Data Transformation

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Transformation.

Data Transformation Libraries

Data Transformation libraries contain predefined transformation components used with the a range of
industry messaging standards. The Data Processor transformation uses a Library object to transform an
industry messaging type input into a different format, such as an XML output document.

The Library object contains a large number of objects and components, such as parsers, serializers, and
XML schemas, preset to transform the industry standard input and specific application messages into XML or
other output. Some libraries contain additional objects for message validation, acknowledgments, and
diagnostic displays. You can also customize the properties and validation settings of the Library object.

For more information, see Data Transformation 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Data Transformation with JSON Input

A Data Processor transformation can contain JSON input with an .xsd schema file that defines JSON input
file hierarchies.

You create a project with a JSON input schema in Data Transformation. The JSON schema is converted into
an .xsd file that Data Transformation uses to transform JSON input. You can import the project into your
repository and use the .xsd in Data Processor transformations to support JSON input with the same
hierarchy.

For more information, see Data Transformation 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Studio User Guide.

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This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerCenter Big Data Edition.

Workflows
If you enable a workflow for recovery, you can recover a workflow instance from the point of interruption. A
running workflow instance can be interrupted when an error occurs, when you abort or cancel the workflow
instance, or when a Data Integration Service process shuts down unexpectedly.

Use the Developer tool to enable a workflow for recovery. When you enable a workflow for recovery, you
must define a recovery strategy for each Command, Mapping, and Notification task in the workflow. A task
recovery strategy defines how the Data Integration Service completes an interrupted task during a workflow
recovery run. A task can have a restart or a skip recovery strategy.

Use the Monitoring tab of the Administrator tool or use the infacmd wfs command line programs to recover
aborted or canceled workflow instances that are enabled for recovery.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Developer Workflow Guide.

Mappings in a Hive Environment

Effective in 9.5.1 HotFix 1, you can run mappings in a Hive environment with Cloudera 4.1.2 distribution.

For more information, see PowerCenter Big Data Edition 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Metadata Manager
This section describes new features and enhancements to Metadata Manager.

Linking Rule Definitions between Models

You can create linking rule definitions for pairs of models. Create linking rule definitions for a pair of models
so that you can apply the same linking rules to different resources associated with the models. For example,
you develop a custom model, "CustomETL," and you need to link objects in CustomETL resources with
objects in Oracle resources. You can create a linking rule definition between the CustomETL model and the
Oracle model and then instantiate the rule definition for each pair of resources of the two models.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Metadata Manager Custom Metadata
Integration Guide.

Lineage for Scorecards

You can view lineage for scorecards. Create an Informatica Platform resource from a resource file exported
from the Developer tool, and then view lineage for objects in the Informatica Platform resource.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

Lineage for Data Quality Transformations

You can view port-level lineage for Data Quality transformations. Create an Informatica Platform resource,
and run data lineage on the resource.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

Resource Configuration Files

You can export resource properties to a resource configuration file on the Load tab. When you export the
resource configuration, you can optionally include rule sets. You can also import resource properties from a
resource configuration file on the Load tab.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 HotFix 1 Metadata Manager Custom Metadata
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 Keyword Search
As you type a search string in the Search list, Metadata Manager displays completed search strings that you
can select.

PowerExchange Adapters
This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerExchange adapters.

Adapters for PowerCenter

PowerExchange for Hadoop for PowerCenter

Effective in 9.5.1 HotFix 1, PowerExchange for Hadoop supports Cloudera 4.1.2 and HortonWorks 1.1 to
access Hadoop sources and targets.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Hadoop 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Salesforce for PowerCenter

Effective in 9.5.1 HotFix 1, you can add a prefix to the names of PowerExchange for Salesforce success
log files and failure log files.

For more information, see the Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API

Effective in 9.5.1 HotFix 1, you can configure the following session properties for a Teradata PT API
target:

Property Description

Insert Teradata PT API creates a DML group to insert

rows.

Update Teradata PT API creates a DML group to update

rows.

Delete Teradata PT API creates a DML group to delete

rows.

When you upgrade to PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API version 9.5.1 HotFix 1, you
must register the TeradataPT.xml file with the PowerCenter repository to use the new features
introduced in version 9.5.1 HotFix 1.

For more information, see the Informatica PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API 9.5.1
HotFix 1 User Guide for PowerCenter.

Adapters for Informatica

PowerExchange for Salesforce

• You can use PowerExchange for Salesforce to read data from Salesforce sources.
• You can use the Developer tool to import a Salesforce data object and create a data object read
operation. You can import both standard and custom Salesforce objects and read related objects.
• You can define data object read operation properties that determine how data is read from Salesforce
sources.

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 • The data object read operation properties you can set include properties for changed data capture,
bulk API, row limit, custom SOQL, sorted ports, and page size.
• You can use the data object read operation as a source in the mappings.
• You can run mappings developed in the Developer tool.
• You can access Salesforce through an HTTP proxy server.

For more information, see the Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce 9.5.1 HotFix 1 User Guide.

Version 9.5.1
This section describes new features and enhancements in version 9.5.1.

Informatica Installer
This section describes new features and enhancements to the Informatica platform installer.

Pre-Installation (i9Pi) System Check Tool

If you run the Pre-Installation (i9Pi) System Check Tool, the values you enter during the system check appear
as the default values in the Informatica installer during the services installation or upgrade.

Informatica Data Explorer

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Explorer.

Data Domains
You can create data domains from the values and patterns in column profile results for use across the data
systems or enterprise.

For more information, see Informatica Data Explorer 9.5.1 User Guide.

DDL Scripts from Profile Model

You can generate DDL scripts from the profile model. Supported databases are DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft
SQL Server.

For more information, see Informatica Data Explorer 9.5.1 User Guide.

Enterprise Discovery
• The enterprise discovery results layout has a new canvas for the graphical view of foreign key results and
filter at the top that displays filter conditions.
• You can save the graphical view of foreign key results as a .png file.
• You can select the top-ranking approach to determine primary keys when you specify the foreign key
inference options for enterprise discovery. The Developer tool uses the top-ranking method along with
documented primary keys and user-defined primary keys to infer the foreign key relationships. Top
ranking of inferred keys is based on the descending conformance percentage rounded to a single decimal
precision.

For more information, see Informatica Data Explorer 9.5.1 User Guide.

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 Export to Microsoft Excel
You can export data domain discovery results to Microsoft Excel from both Analyst and Developer tools.
Export enterprise discovery results from the Developer tool to the client machine or a server location set in
the Data Integration Service properties of Informatica Administrator.

For more information, see Informatica Data Explorer 9.5.1 User Guide.

Model Repository (MRX) Views

The MRX_PROFILERUNSTAT view provides information about the run-time statistics of a profile, profile
model, or scorecard. The view provides information such as the object name, request type, start time and end
time of the object, username, and the domain the user belongs to.

The MRX_PROFILE_SUMMARY view provides a summary of profile objects. The view provides information
about the object name, type, and internal IDs.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Model Repository (MRX) Views.

Scorecards
• You can assign a metric weight for each metric in a scorecard.
• The score of a metric group is the weighted average of all scores in the metric group.
• You can configure scorecard notifications in the Analyst tool. Users receive email notifications when
metric scores or metric group scores move across thresholds or remain in specific score ranges across
multiple scorecard runs.
• Assign the Model Repository Service privilege Manage Notifications to enable a user to configure
scorecard notifications.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer User Guide.

Informatica Data Quality

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Quality.

Accelerators
The core accelerator includes the following rule:

• Rule_Classify_Language. Use to classify data values based on the language of each value.
The Rule_Classify_Language rule classifies each data value as one of the following languages: Arabic,
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, or Turkish.
The rule uses the Language_Classifier content set to analyze data values. When you import the core
accelerator to the repository, you can configure a Classifier transformation to use the content set to
classify data values by language.
The Brazil accelerator includes the following rules:

• Rule_BRA_Personal_PIS_PASEP_Validation. Use to validate Brazilian social insurance numbers.

• Rule_BRA_Personal_Voter_Registration_Validation. Use to validate the check digits in Brazil voter
registration numbers.

Classifier Models
A classifier model is a type of reference data object that you can use to analyze input strings and determine
the types of information they contain. You use a classifier model in a Classifier transformation.

Use a classifier model when input strings contain large amounts of data. For example, use a classifier model
when you convert a series of documents or social media comments into a single data source.

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 You use the Developer tool to import classifier model files. The Model repository stores the classifier model
object. The classifier model data is stored as a file on the Informatica services machine. The Content
Management Service stores the path to the classifier model files that you import. Informatica uses the
following directory path as the default location for classifier model files:

[Informatica_install_directory]/tomcat/bin/classifier

You can use the Content Management Service to update the location of the classifier model files on the
Informatica services machine.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Data Quality User Guide.

Classifier Transformation
The Classifier transformation is a passive transformation that analyzes input fields and determines the type of
information in each field. Use a Classifier transformation when each input field contains the contents of a
document or a significant amount of text. A Classifier transformation uses a classifier model to analyze the
input data.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer Transformation Guide.

Content Management Service

You can specify the temporary directory for the Content Management Service. The Content Management
Service uses the directory to store reference table data during data import and export operations. You specify
a directory on the Informatica services machine.

The default directory is [Informatica_install_directory]/Datafiles.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Administrator Guide.

Filter Projects
You can filter the list of projects that appear in the Object Explorer view before you connect to the Model
repository. When you filter projects before you connect, you can decrease the amount of time that the
Developer tool takes to connect to the repository.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer User Guide.

Informatica Data Director for Data Quality

You can use the following new features in Informatica Data Director for Data Quality:

• You can export record or cluster data from a task instance in Data Director for Data Quality task to a
comma-separated file.
• When you log in as an administrator, you can find all task instances that share a common Human task
parent.
• When you log in as an administrator, you stop operations on all task instances that share a common
Human task parent. The records associated the task instances pass to the next stage in the Human task.
• You can view a unique task ID for every task instance.
• You can filter the clusters in a duplicate record task by the cluster status.
For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Data Director for Data Quality User Guide.

Java Transformation
You can enable the Stateless advanced property for a Java transformation in the Developer tool. When you
enable the Stateless advanced property, the Data Integration Service processes the input row without
depending on the value of the previous row. The Stateless property is valid only in a Hive environment.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 3 Developer Transformation Guide.

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 Lookup Transformation
You can create a Lookup transformation in the Developer tool that looks up data in a reference table.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer Transformation Guide.

Match Transformation
You can view logs in the Developer tool that display progress data for a mapping that runs a Match
transformation. The mapping adds a record to the log every time the Match transformation performs 100,000
record comparisons.

You can select the following options when you configure a Match transformation to sort duplicate records into
clusters:

• You can specify that the transformation writes identical records directly to the cluster output. The link
scores and driver scores for records in the clusters may change when you select this option.

• You can specify that the transformation creates clusters that represent the best matches between one
record and another in a data set. Use this option when you define an identity match strategy on a single
data set.
For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer Transformation Guide.

Model Repository (MRX) Views

The MRX_OBJECT_SUMMARY view provides a summary of Model repository objects. The view provides
information about the project that the object belongs to, the object path, and user activity on the object.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Model Repository (MRX) Views.

Reference Tables
You can assign privileges to users and groups on reference table objects. Use the Security options in the
Administrator tool to assign privileges.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Administrator Guide.

User-Defined Parameters
In the Developer tool, you can create a user-defined parameter in reusable Aggregator, Joiner, Rank,
Reference Table Lookup, Relational Lookup, and Sorter transformations. You can assign the parameter to
the cache file directory, temporary file directory, or connection fields in the transformation.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer User Guide.

Workflows
• You can edit the email notifications that users receive when a Human task changes status.
• The workflow log file includes the thread name for each log event.
For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer Workflow Guide.

Informatica Data Services

This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Data Services.

Filter Projects
You can filter the list of projects that appear in the Object Explorer view before you connect to the Model
repository. When you filter projects before you connect, you can decrease the amount of time that the
Developer tool takes to connect to the repository.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer User Guide.

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 Find in Editor
In the Developer tool, you can search for attributes or virtual tables in the SQL data service editor. You can
search for expressions, groups, ports, transformations, or virtual tables in the virtual table mapping editor.
You can search for expressions, groups, ports, or transformations in the virtual stored procedure editor.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer User Guide.

Java Transformation
You can enable the Stateless advanced property for a Java transformation in the Developer tool. When you
enable the Stateless advanced property, the Data Integration Service processes the input row without
depending on the value of the previous row. The Stateless property is valid only in a Hive environment.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 HotFix 3 Developer Transformation Guide.

Lookup Transformation
You can create a Lookup transformation in the Developer tool that looks up data in a reference table.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer Transformation Guide.

Mapping Specification
• After you import a flat file, the Analyst tool infers the Numeric or String datatypes for flat file columns
based on the first 10,000 rows.
• You can search for a table or table schema when you import a table.
• You can export the mapping specification target as a table definition in the Analyst tool. The Analyst tool
generates an SQL script that contains the table definition based on the structure of the mapping
specification target. You can provide the script to a developer to create the mapping specification target
as a table in a database.
• If you do not have permissions to export the mapping specification to a PowerCenter repository, you can
choose to export the mapping specification logic as an XML file. You can download this file and provide it
to a PowerCenter developer to import as a mapplet or mapping in the PowerCenter repository.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Data Integration Analyst User Guide.

Model Repository (MRX) Views

The MRX_OBJECT_SUMMARY view provides a summary of Model repository objects. The view provides
information about the project that the object belongs to, the object path, and user activity on the object.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Model Repository (MRX) Views.

ODBC Driver Installation

You can install the Informatica data services ODBC drivers in silent mode on UNIX and Windows machines.

For more information, see Informatica Data Services 9.5.1 User Guide.

User-Defined Parameters
In the Developer tool, you can create a user-defined parameter in reusable Aggregator, Joiner, Rank,
Reference Table Lookup, Relational Lookup, and Sorter transformations. You can assign the parameter to
the cache file directory, temporary file directory, or connection fields in the transformation.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Developer User Guide.

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Informatica Development Platform
This section describes new features and enhancements to Informatica Development Platform.

Design API
Version 9.5.1 includes the following enhancements for the Design API:

• You can create a BAPI transformation to read or write cluster field data from an SAP table data.
• You can create a folder with a pound sign (#) in the folder name.
• You can create a Teradata MultiLoad connection object.
• You can use the following special mask formats in a Data Masking transformation:
- Credit card numbers

- Advanced email addresses

- IP addresses

- Phone numbers

- Social insurance numbers

- URL addresses
• You can create an XML source or XML target definition from an XML schema definition with an entity view
or a hierarchical normalized view.
For more information, see Informatica Development Platform 9.5.1 IDP Developer Guide.

Informatica Domain
This section describes new features and enhancements to the Informatica domain.

Change Password Web Application

The Change Password web application allows you to change your password from Informatica Administrator
and other Informatica client tools.

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 Command Line Programs
This section describes new commands and options for the Informatica command line programs.

infacmd cms Commands

The following table describes updated infacmd cms commands:

Command Description

CreateService Contains the following new options:

- -RepositoryUsername (-rsu). Required. User name to
connect to the Model Repository Service.
- -RepositoryPassword (-rsp). Required. User name to
connect to the Model Repository Service.
- -RepositorySecurityDomain (-rssd). Required if you use
LDAP authentication. Name of the security domain that
the user belongs to.
Update any script that uses the CreateService
command with the new required options.

ResyncData Contains new option -Type (-t). This option specifies

the type of model file to synchronize. You can specify
probabilistic model files or classifier model files.

UpdateServiceOptions Enables new options:

- DataServiceOptions.RepositoryUsername. Specifies a
username that the Content Management Service uses
to connect to the Model Repository Service.
- DataServiceOptions.RepositoryPassword. Specifies a
password that the Content Management Service uses to
connect to the Model Repository Service.
- FileTransferOptions.TempLocation. Specifies a
directory that the Content Management Service uses to
stage data that it adds to a reference table.

UpdateServiceProcessOptions Enables new options:

- GeneralOptions.JVMOptions. Specifies Java memory
allocation options and Java virtual machine command
line options.
- IdentityOptions.IdentityReferenceDataLocation.
Specifies the location of identity population files.
- IdentityOptions.IdentityCacheDir. Specifies the location
of the cache directory used in identity match analysis.
- IdentityOptions.IdentityIndexDir. Specifies the location
of the index key directory used in identity match
analysis.

infacmd dis Commands

The following table describes an updated infacmd dis command:

Command Description

CreateService Contains new option -httpProtocolType (-pt). This

option specifies the security protocol that the Data
Integration Service uses.

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infacmd hts commands
infacmd hts commands manage the database tables that store Human task metadata.

The following table describes the infacmd hts commands:

Command Description

CreateDB Creates database tables that store Human task

metadata.

DropBD Drops database tables that store Human task

metadata.

Exit Stops all Human task operations, and passes the

records associated with the task to the next stage in
the workflow.

infacmd ipc Commands

The following table describes an updated command:

Command Description

ExportToPC The option -DsServiceName (-dsn) is removed. You do not need to specify a Data Integration
Service when you run the command.
If you created scripts that use infacmd ipc ExportToPC, you must update the scripts.

infacmd rtm Commands

The following table describes an updated command:

Command Description

Export The option -DataIntegrationService (-ds) is removed. You do not need to specify a Data Integration
Service when you run the command.
If you created scripts that use infacmd rtm Export, you must update the scripts.

infacmd wfs Commands

The following table describes a new infacmd wfs command:

Command Description

ListWorkflows Lists the workflows in an application.

For more information, see Informatica 9.5.1 Command Reference.

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This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerCenter.

Data Masking Transformation

You can configure advanced email address masking in the Data Masking transformation to create a realistic
email address. You can generate an email address from a dictionary file or from the transformation output
ports in the mapping. You can apply expressions to create an email address. You can also specify a domain
dictionary to apply different domain names in the email address.

For more information, see the Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Transformation Guide.

PowerCenter Big Data Edition

PowerCenter Big Data Edition consists of a set of components to process large and complex data sets that
cannot be processed through standard database management tools.

PowerCenter Big Data Edition includes functionality from the following Informatica products: PowerCenter,
Data Quality, Data Explorer, Data Transformation, Data Replication, PowerExchange for Hive,
PowerExchange for HDFS, and social media adapters.

In addition to basic functionality associated with the Informatica products, you can perform the following
functionality associated with big data:
Access big data sources
Access unstructured and semi-structured data, social media data, cloud applications data, and HDFS
and Hive data. You can process data in a Informatica domain environment or a Hive environment.

Replicate data
Replicate big transactional data between heterogeneous databases and platforms.

High-performance processing within the Informatica domain

Distribute mapping, session, and workflow processing across nodes on a grid, enable partitioning to
process partitions of data in parallel, and process data through highly available services. In a Informatica
Domain or the native environment, the Integration Service runs a mapping, a profile, or a workflow. The
Integration Service performs the data processing. The PowerCenter Integration Service runs the
PowerCenter mappings, sessions, and workflows. The Data integration Service runs the Model
repository mappings, profiles, and workflows.

High-performance processing in a Hive environment

Distribute mapping and profile processing across Hadoop cluster nodes in a Hive environment. In a Hive
environment, you can configure a mapping, mappings in a workflow, or a profile to run on a Hadoop
cluster from the Developer tool. You can import mappings from PowerCenter or you can develop
mappings in the Developer tool. The Data Integration Service pushes the data processing to Hadoop.
The Data Integration Service creates a Hive execution plan for the mapping or profile that consists of
Hive queries. At run time, Hive generates MapReduce jobs for the Hive queries. You can monitor the
MapReduce jobs in the Administrator tool and the Hadoop JobTracker

For more information, see PowerCenter Big Data Edition 9.5.1 User Guide.

Metadata Manager
This section describes new features and enhancements to Metadata Manager.

Data Lineage Performance Improvements

Metadata Manager generates data lineage diagrams much faster than it did in version 9.5.0.

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Informatica Platform Resources
You can create and configure an Informatica Platform resource to extract metadata from an application
deployed from Informatica Data Services or Informatica Data Quality. You can extract metadata from
mappings and SQL data services.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

Custom XConnect Created with a Load Template

• When you create a custom model, you can upload and update the load template through the Model tab.
• When you create the resource for the custom metadata, you can upload the source CSV files and map
them to mapping rules in the new resource wizard.
• When you create the resource for the custom metadata, you can specify an additional input file that
contains pairs of objects that you want to link. The enumerated links file links elements in the custom
resource with elements in another custom, packaged, or business glossary resource so that you can run
data lineage analysis across the metadata sources.
For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Metadata Manager Custom Metadata Integration
Guide.

Rule-Based Links
• You can use rule-based links to link objects in a custom resource or a business glossary resource to non-
endpoint elements in a PowerCenter resource.
• You can upload linking rule set files through the Load tab.
For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Metadata Manager Custom Metadata Integration
Guide.

Informatica Business Glossary

Informatica Business Glossary Desktop

The Business Glossary Desktop is a desktop application that you can use to look up business terms and
business term details in a business glossary. You can highlight a word in any application, such as an
email application, and use hotkeys to look up the word in Business Glossary Desktop. The Business
Glossary Desktop runs in the background and is accessible from the Windows system menu.

You can install the Business Glossary Desktop on a machine with the graphical installer. Or, an
administrator can run the silent installer to install the Business Glossary Desktop on multiple machines.

For more information, see Informatica Business Glossary 9.5.1 Desktop Guide and Informatica Business
Glossary Desktop 9.5.1 Installation and Configuration Guide.

Revise Published Business Terms

Revise a draft version of a published business term to change the term. When you revise a published
term, Metadata Manager creates a revision copy of the term. After you make changes in the revision,
you can follow the approval process to publish the term. Metadata Manager updates the original term,
deletes the revision, and tracks changes in an audit trail.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Metadata Manager Business Glossary Guide.

Informatica Business Glossary API

You can use the Business Glossary API with any client that uses the HTTP protocol to request and
retrieve business glossary data. The Business Glossary API allows developers to integrate lookups to
the business glossary in other applications. The Business Glossary API is a REST API. The Business
Glossary API uses the HTTP GET method to retrieve data from a business glossary.

For more information, see Informatica Business Glossary 1.0 API Guide.

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The following table describes new Metadata Manager application properties in the imm.properties file:

Property Description

Catalog_Import_Batch_Size The number of elements that Metadata

Manager processes in one batch when you
import metadata for a custom resource or a
business glossary from an XML file. Increase
this value if errors occur during XML import.

Glossary_Import_Export_Requires_Manage_Glossary_Privilege Determines whether a user must have the

Manage Glossary privilege to export or import
a business glossary.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

Performance Metrics
Metadata Manager writes lineage metrics such as number of links, number of resources, and graph build time
to the following file:

<Informatica installation directory>\tomcat\temp\<service name>\logs\lineage_perf.csv

Resource Configuration Files

Resource configuration files contain new elements that provide information about the schedule that is
attached to the resource and the enumerated links files that are associated with the resource.

Utilities to Migrate Resources and Resource Configuration Files

The following table describes new command line programs that allow you to migrate resources and resource
configuration files:

Program Description

rmu.bat Migrates version 9.1.0 resources to version 9.5.1 resources. Also migrates deprecated resources.

rcfmu.bat Migrates a version 9.1.0 resource configuration file to a version 9.5.1 resource configuration file.

For more information, see Informatica PowerCenter 9.5.1 Metadata Manager Administrator Guide.

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PowerExchange Adapters
This section describes new features and enhancements to PowerExchange adapters.

Adapters for PowerCenter

PowerExchange for Greenplum

• The following table describes the new session properties you can configure for a PowerExchange for
Greenplum session:

Property Description

Reuse Table Determines if the gpload utility drops the external table objects and
staging table objects it creates. The gpload utility reuses the objects for
future load operations that use the same load specifications.

Delete Control File Determines if the PowerCenter Integration Service must delete the gpload
control file after the session is complete.

Gpload Log File Location The file system location where the gpload utility generates the gpload log
file.

Gpload Control File The file system location where the PowerCenter Integration Service
Location generates the gpload control file.

Encoding Character set encoding of the source data.

Pipe Location The file system location where the pipes used for data transfer are
created.

• You can configure pass-through partitioning for Greenplum sessions. PowerExchange for Greenplum
supports pass-through partitioning.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Greenplum 9.5.1 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

• You can run the PowerExchange for Microsoft Dynamics CRM server component on AIX and HP-UX.
• PowerExchange for Microsoft Dynamics CRM uses Office 365 for passport authentication.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 9.5.1 User Guide
for PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BI

• PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver BI supports SAP BI version 7.3.

• You can import a 7.x DataSource from an SAP BI version 7.3 system as a target in the PowerCenter
Designer and include it in a mapping. You can create a workflow for the mapping and configure an
InfoPackage in the SAP system to load data to the Persistent Storage Area (PSA). You can then
create a data transfer process to load the data from the PSA to an SAP target.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for SAP NetWeaver 9.5.1 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API

You can authenticate a user using either Native or LDAP authentication.

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Guide for PowerCenter.

PowerExchange for Ultra Messaging

• You can filter the messages that you want to read from an Ultra Messaging source.
• You can configure message fields in an Ultra Messaging target definition to be not null to ensure that
the target has valid values.
• PowerExchange for Ultra Messaging supports the datetime datatype. The datetime datatype has a
precision of 23 and a scale of 3.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Ultra Messaging 9.5.1 User Guide for
PowerCenter.

Adapters for Informatica

PowerExchange for DataSift

• You can extract social media data from DataSift streams.

• You can use Informatica Developer to create a DataSift data object, specify resources, and create a
data object operation. You can use the data object operation as a source in the mappings.
• You can specify a single hash value, a list of hash values, or CSDL code to extract data from DataSift
streams.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for DataSift 9.5.1 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Facebook

• You can access Facebook through an HTTP proxy server.

• You can specify a list of access tokens that the Data Integration Service can use at run time to
authenticate access to Facebook.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Facebook 9.5.1 User Guide.

PowerExchange for HDFS

• You can access data in a Hadoop Distributed file System (HDFS) cluster.
• You can read and write fixed-width and delimited file formats with a flat file data object. You can read
or write compressed files.
• You can read text files and binary file formats such as a sequence file from HDFS with a complex file
data object. You can specify the compression format of the files. You can use the binary stream
output of the complex file data object as input to a Data Processor transformation, which can parse
the file.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for HDFS 9.5.1 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Hive

• You can access data in a Hive data warehouse.

• You can read data from Hive in native or Hive run-time environments. You can write to Hive only if
the run-time environment is Hive.
• You can create a Hive connection to run Informatica mappings in the Hadoop cluster. You can specify
the Hive validation and run-time environment for Informatica mappings.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Hive 9.5.1 User Guide.

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 PowerExchange for LinkedIn

• You can access LinkedIn through an HTTP proxy server.

• You can specify a list of access tokens that the Data Integration Service can use at run time to
authenticate access to LinkedIn.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for LinkedIn 9.5.1 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API

• You can use PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API to load large volumes of data into
Teradata tables by using Load or Stream system operators.
• You can use the Developer tool to create a Teradata data object and create a data object write
operation. You can use the data object write operation as a target in the mappings.
• You can run mappings developed in the Developer tool. You can run the mappings in the native
environment or in a Hive environment.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Teradata Parallel Transporter API 9.5.1 User
Guide.

PowerExchange for Twitter

• You can access Twitter through an HTTP proxy server.

• You can specify a list of access tokens that the Data Integration Service can use at run time to
authenticate access to Twitter.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Twitter 9.5.1 User Guide.

PowerExchange for Web Content-Kapow Katalyst

You can use Kapow Katalyst through an HTTP proxy server to access web content.

For more information, see Informatica PowerExchange for Web Content-Kapow Katalyst 9.5.1 User
Guide.

Documentation
This section describes new features and enhancements to the documentation.

Business Glossary Desktop

Business Glossary Desktop includes the following new guides:
Informatica Business Glossary Desktop Guide
Contains information about using Business Glossary Desktop to look up business terms and business
term details in a business glossary.

Informatica Business Glossary Desktop Installation and Configuration Guide

Contains information about installing and configuring Business Glossary Desktop.

Informatica Business Glossary API Guide

Contains information about the Business Glossary API, which developers can use to integrate lookups to
the business glossary in other applications.

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