You must have a functional on-premises PowerExchange for Adabas environment that can replicate data from Adabas source tables. Also, you must have a license that allows your organization to use the Adabas Connector and PowerExchange Client packages.
On each system from which you plan to use Adabas Connector, you must install the Secure Agent. After you start the Secure Agent the first time, the Adabas Connector and PowerExchange Client components are installed locally. You then can use Cloud Data Integration, Administrator, and Monitor interfaces to configure Adabas connections, mappings, and mapping tasks and to run and monitor mapping tasks.
The following image shows the general architecture of the Adabas Connector components with Cloud Data Integration and a remote PowerExchange source system:
This configuration spans the following on-premises systems:
•The z/OS system where the Adabas database and PowerExchange Listener run.
•The system where the Adabas Connector components and Secure Agent run.
Based on this configuration, the following processing occurs:
1PowerExchange reads from and writes to Adabas tables where the PowerExchange Listener for z/OS resides.
2When you design a mapping in Data Integration, you associate the Source transformation with a Adabas connection. You can define the connection in either Data Integration or Administrator. The PWX Bulk Metadata Adapter then uses the connection to connect to the PowerExchange Listener on z/OS and and read from and write to Adabas tables.
In the mapping, you must also define a Target transformation and connection and map the source fields to target fields.
3The Secure Agent in conjunction with Data Integration sends the Adabas metadata to the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services repository in the cloud.
4When you run the mapping or mapping task, all of the metadata, connection properties, mapping information, advanced source properties, runtime properties, and advanced session properties are pushed down to the on-premises Secure Agent in the form of a session .xml file.
5The PWX Bulk Reader and Writer on the Secure Agent machine communicates with the PowerExchange Listener on the z/OS machine to move bulk data from the source tables.
6Data Integration transmits the records to the mapped target.
