Part IV: Version 9.5.0 > Changes to Informatica Data Services (9.5.0) > Cost-Based Optimization
  

Cost-Based Optimization

Effective in version 9.5, the Data Integration Service cost-based optimization method can use profiling statistics or database statistics to estimate the number or rows that pass through a transformation.
Previously, the Data Integration Service could use database statistics to estimate the number of rows that pass through a transformation.