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Informatica Installer

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

Upgrade Paths

You can directly upgrade to version 10.5 from 10.4 and 10.4.1. The upgrade paths that you take depend on the products that you upgrade.
Product
Versions
PowerCenter
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions that include service packs and hot fixes:
  • - 10.1.1
  • - 10.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Informatica Data Quality
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions that include service packs and hot fixes:
  • - 10.1.1
  • - 10.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Data Engineering products
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions that include service packs and hot fixes:
  • - 10.1.1
  • - 10.2
  • - 10.2.1
  • - 10.2.2
  • - 10.4
  • - 10.4.1
Data Privacy Management
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions:
  • - 10.4 and all service packs
  • - 10.4.1 and all service packs
Enterprise Data Catalog
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions:
  • - 10.4 and all service packs
  • - 10.4.1 and all service packs
Enterprise Data Preparation
You can upgrade to version 10.5 from the following versions:
  • - 10.4 and all service packs
  • - 10.4.1 and all service packs
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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enterprise Data Catalog

Effective in version 10.5, installation and upgrade of Enterprise Data Catalog includes the following changes.

Advanced Scanners Installation and License Files

Effective in version 10.5, you can use Enterprise Data Catalog installer and license files to install and use Advanced Scanners.
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

Effective in version 10.5, high availability is enabled by default when you deploy Enterprise Data Catalog on multiple nodes.
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

Effective in version 10.5, the configuration parameters of Catalog Service and Informatica Cluster Service are updated.
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

Effective in version 10.5, you cannot deploy Enterprise Data Catalog on a Hadoop cluster.
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

Effective in version 10.5, Enterprise Data Catalog provides the 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

Effective in version 10.5, 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.

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.