Creating an HDFS Connection
Configure the HDFS connection in Informatica Developer to create a column profile on an Avro, JSON, Parquet, and XML data sources in HDFS. You can create a complex file data object after you create an HDFS connection.
1. Click Window > Preferences.
2. Select Informatica > Connections.
3. Expand the domain.
4. Select the connection type File Systems > Hadoop File System, and click Add.
5. Enter a connection name.
6. Optionally, enter a connection description.
7. Click Next.
8. Configure the connection properties.
9. Click Test Connection to verify the connection to HDFS.
10. Click Finish.