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Informatica Installer

Read this section to learn what's new for the Informatica installer in version 10.5.

Upgrade Paths

The upgrade paths that you take depend on the products that you upgrade. If you are on a version that does not support a direct upgrade, you must first upgrade to a supported version.
The following table lists the upgrade paths for each product that the installer supports.
Product
Versions
PowerCenter
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any hotfix and service pack:
  • - 10.1.1
  • - 10.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Informatica Data Quality
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any hotfix and service pack:
  • - 10.1.1
  • - 10.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Data Engineering Integration
Data Engineering Quality
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any hotfix and service pack:
  • - 10.1.1
  • - 10.2
  • - 10.2.1
  • - 10.2.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Important: If Data Engineering is in the same domain as any other product supported by the Informatica installer, verify that all products are upgraded to the same supported upgrade version before you upgrade to 10.5.
Data Engineering Streaming
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any hotfix and service pack:
  • - 10.2.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Data Privacy Management
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any service packs:
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Important: If Data Engineering, Enterprise Data Catalog, and Data Privacy Management are in the same domain of a version earlier than 10.4, upgrade them all to version 10.4 before you upgrade to 10.5.
Enterprise Data Catalog
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any service packs:
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Important: If Enterprise Data Catalog and Data Engineering are in the same domain of a version earlier than 10.4, upgrade them both to version 10.4 or 10.4.1 before you upgrade to 10.5.
Enterprise Data Preparation
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions including any service packs:
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Important: If Data Engineering, Enterprise Data Catalog, and Enterprise Data Preparation are in the same domain of a version earlier than 10.4, upgrade them all to version 10.4 or 10.4.1 before you upgrade to 10.5.
Test Data Management
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions:
  • - 10.2.0 Hotfix 2
  • - 10.4 and all service packs
  • - 10.4.1 and all service packs

Data Engineering

Effective in version 10.5, the Data Engineering installer options include the following update and additional features:
Metadata Access Service
Effective in version 10.5, you can create the Metadata Access Service when you run the installer.
Google DataProc
You can create Google DataProc for cluster configuration when you run the installer.
For more information, see the Informatica 10.5 Installation for Data Engineering Guide.

Data Privacy Management

Effective in version 10.5, the Data Privacy Management installer options include the following update and additional features:
Non-Hadoop installation
Effective in version 10.5, you install Data Privacy Management on a non-Hadoop cluster. The installer includes a bundled MongoDB database that is used for the Subject Registry data.
PostgreSQL database as repository
You can create the Data Privacy Management repository on a PostgreSQL database.
User activity monitoring
You can enable user activity monitoring and specify an event file storage directory during installation.
Elasticsearch with X-Pack features
You can use a version of Elasticsearch with X-Pack features if you want to include TLS and authentication for Elasticsearch. You must have the required Elasticsearch version .tar file.
Advanced configuration
You can enable advanced configuration for Data Privacy Management. If you enable advanced configuration, you can specify values for Elasticsearch and Spark properties. If not, the installer uses the default values. Data Privacy Management uses Elasticsearch and Spark for tasks related to user activity monitoring.
For more information, see the Informatica Data Privacy Management Installation and Configuration Guide.

Domain

Effective in version 10.5, the Informatica domain installer options include the following update and additional features:
SAML
You can enable the request signing, signed response, and encrypted assertion SAML authentication features during domain creation.
Site Key
Informatica increased the site key size from 128 bit to 256 bit.

Enterprise Data Catalog

Effective in version 10.5, installation and upgrade of Enterprise Data Catalog includes the following changes:
Common Installation File
You can install Enterprise Data Catalog and Enterprise Data Catalog Advanced Scanners using a single installer. During Enterprise Data Catalog installation, you can choose if you want to install Enterprise Data Catalog Advanced Scanners.
Common License
Enterprise Data Catalog and Enterprise Data Catalog Advanced share a common license file. Enterprise Data Catalog Advanced Scanners reads license details from the Enterprise Data Catalog service.
For more information, see the Enterprise Data Catalog Advanced Scanners Administrator Guide.
High Availability
You can deploy Enterprise Data Catalog on one, three, or six nodes included in a cluster.
For more information, see Informatica 10.5 Installation for Enterprise Data Catalog.
Application Service Changes
The configuration parameters of Catalog Service and Informatica Cluster Service are updated. The Catalog Service does not include options to specify the size of catalog data as low, medium, and high.
The updates are due to the changes in the deployment, associated services, and authentication protocol.
For more information, see Informatica 10.5 Installation for Enterprise Data Catalog.
Installation and Deployment Changes
The options to deploy Enterprise Data Catalog in an embedded or existing cluster no longer exist.
Enterprise Data Catalog uses the following applications and associated services:
PostgreSQL Database
Database to store information related to similarity profiling in place of HBase
Nomad
Service orchestration application in place of Apache Hadoop YARN.
MongoDB
Database used as the metadata store in place of HBase.
For more information, see Informatica 10.5 Installation for Enterprise Data Catalog.
Export Utility
You must use the utility to back up the catalog data in addition to using the LDM BackupContents command to back up the catalog data.
For more information, see Upgrading from Versions 10.4.0 and Later.
Command to Restore Data Post Upgrade
You must use the LDM migrateContents command to restore data after you upgrade Enterprise Data Catalog to version 10.5.
For more information, see Upgrading from Versions 10.4.0 and Later and Informatica Command Reference.

Informatica Deployment Manager

Effective in version 10.5, the Container Utility is renamed to Informatica Deployment Manager. Informatica Deployment Manager uses a secure REST-based installer, and you can use it to deploy and manage the complete lifecycle of the Informatica domain and its services. Additionally, you can apply Emergency Bug Fixes (EBFs) to the deployed entities using the installer.
For more information, see Install PowerCenter (10.4.x - 10.5.0) on Docker With Informatica Deployment Manager and Install Data Engineering Integration (10.4.x - 10.5.0) on Kubernetes With Informatica Deployment Manager How-to Library (H2L) articles.

PowerCenter

Effective in version 10.5, when you join a domain, you can create and configure the PowerCenter Integration Service and the PowerCenter Repository Service.