A program that runs tasks in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. An agent can be a Secure Agent that runs locally within your environment or within a cloud computing services environment, or it can be the Hosted Agent that runs at an Informatica Cloud hosting facility.
asset
Any object that can be created, read, updated, and deleted within Data Integration. Examples include mappings, tasks, and taskflows. Assets are organized in project folders.
component
An asset that is used within other assets such as mappings and tasks. For example, a shared sequence is a component that is used in Sequence Generator transformations.
connection
An object that you configure to provide access to data in cloud and on-premises applications, platforms, databases, and flat files.
Data Integration Server
A Secure Agent service that performs data integration jobs for Data Integration. Data integration jobs include previewing data and running mappings, tasks, and taskflows.
full load
A type of load where an entity processes data for all rows of the source objects.
A runtime environment that runs Data Integration tasks that use certain connectors. The Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent (Hosted Agent) is hosted at an Informatica Cloud hosting facility.
Informatica Cloud hosting facility
A facility where Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services runs. The Informatica Cloud hosting facility stores task and organization information but it does not store source or target data.
Informatica Cloud Secure Agent
A lightweight program that runs tasks and collects metadata for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. A Secure Agent enables secure communication across the firewall between Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and your organization or a cloud computing services environment. A Secure Agent runs within a Secure Agent group.
Informatica Cloud Secure Agent Manager
A program used to manage the Informatica Cloud Secure Agent on Windows.
job
An instance of a mapping, task, or taskflow.
mapping
An asset that defines data flow logic that you can use in mapping tasks.
mapping task
A Data Integration task that allows you to process data based on the data flow logic defined in a mapping.
mapplet
Transformation logic that you can create and use to transform source data before it is loaded into the target. Previously known as a plug-in.
organization
A secure area within the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services repository that stores your user accounts, data integration assets such as mappings and tasks, and information about jobs and security.
organization administrator
A Data Integration user configured with the Administrator role who has full access to the organization. The organization administrator is responsible for managing the organization and performing administrative tasks, such as managing users and payment information. The organization administrator can also view organization, usage, and security information.
parameter file
A text file that contains user-defined parameters and their associated values.
privilege
Access rights to product features or types of assets.
related objects
Multiple source objects joined by a relationship defined in the source system or a custom relationship defined in the Source transformation.
role
The set of privileges that determines a user's level of access to Data Integration features. For example, users with the Administrator role have full access to all features. You assign a role to a user when you create or edit the user.
runtime environment
The execution platform that run tasks. A runtime environment is either the Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent or a Secure Agent group. You must have at least one runtime environment in each organization so that users in the organization can run tasks.
Secure Agent group
A type of runtime environment that consists of one or more Secure Agents.
tag
Asset property that you can use to group assets. Create tags to filter for assets that share a common attribute on the Explore page.
task
A process that you configure to analyze, extract, transform, and load data. You can configure and run different types of tasks. For example, you can create a mapping task to execute the data transformation logic in a mapping.
taskflow
A data integration workflow that consists of multiple tasks linked together. You can use a taskflow to run multiple tasks in sequential order or run multiple parallel sets of tasks, either on demand or according to a schedule.
transformation
An object in a mapping that generates, modifies, or passes data. Each transformation performs a different function.
transformation data type
Set of data types that appear in the transformations. They are internal data types based on ANSI SQL-92 generic data types, which the Secure Agent uses to move data across platforms. Transformation data types appear in all transformations in a mapping.
user
An Informatica Data Integration user account that allows secure access to an organization. A user can perform tasks in the organization based on the role assigned to the user.
user-defined function
A reusable function that you can use in expressions. Create a user-defined function to build a complex expression using the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services transformation language. User-defined functions use the same syntax and can use the same transformation language components as transformation and field expressions.