Changes (9.6.1 HotFix 1)
This section describes changes in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Application Services
This section describes changes to application services in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Content Management Service
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the Content Management Service sets default values for the following Address Validation process properties:
- •No Pre-Load Countries
- •No Pre-Load Geocoding Countries
- •No Pre-Load Suggestion List Countries
- •No Pre-Load Address Code Countries
The Content Management Service sets the default value for each property to ALL.
Previously, the Content Management Service did not set default values for the properties.
Note: The default properties do not affect the data output from any address validation mapping that you created in an earlier product version.
Business Glossary
This section describes changes to Business Glossary in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Business Glossary API changes
The URLs and parameters of the Business Glossary REST APIs used to develop a client application have changed.
Informatica Transformations
This section describes changes to Informatica transformations in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Address Validator Transformation
The following changes apply to the Address Validator transformation in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1:
- •Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the Address Validator transformation populates additional fields in a Software Evaluation and Recognition Program (SERP) report. The SERP report includes the following fields:
- - Processing Date
- - Date of CPC Address Data File
Previously, the transformation did not populate the fields.
- •Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the Extended Element Status port name is Extended Element Result Status.
Data Processor Transformation
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, you can export a Data Processor transformation with an XMap object and import it again into the Developer tool as a transformation with an XMap object.
Previously, when you exported a Data Processor transformation with an XMap object, it was re-imported into the Developer tool as a transformation with a Script object.
Metadata Manager
This section describes changes to Metadata Manager in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Microsoft Analysis and Reporting Services Metadata Source Version
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, you can create Microsoft Analysis and Reporting Services resources to extract metadata from Microsoft Analysis and Reporting Services version 10.5 (2008 R2).
Previously, you could extract metadata from Microsoft Analysis and Reporting Services version 9.0 (2005).
Search
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the behavior for customizing the list of words to ignore in searches is changed.
The behavior is changed in the following ways:
The stopwords.txt file created by the installer contains the default list of English words to ignore in searches. To customize the word list, update the stopwords.txt file, enable the UseCustomStopWords property, disable and enable the Metadata Manager Service, and then manually update the search index for all resources.
Previously, to customize the word list, you had to create the stopwords.txt file manually, disable and enable the Metadata Manager Service, and then manually update the search index for all resources.
PowerCenter Transformations
This section describes changes to PowerCenter transformations in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Data Masking Transformation
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, you set the substitution dictionary owner name and the storage owner name in the transaction environment properties.
Previously, you set the substitution dictionary owner name and the storage owner name in the Transformations view on the Mapping tab in the session properties.
PowerExchange
This section describes changes to PowerExchange functionality in the Informatica domain in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
infacmd pwx displayStatsListener Command
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the infacmd pwx displayStatsListener command can produce monitoring statistics for PowerExchange Listener processes on Linux, zLinux, and UNIX. Previously, the command produced statistics only for PowerExchange Listener processes on Windows.
PowerExchange Adapters
This section describes changes to PowerExchange adapters in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
PowerExchange Adapters for Informatica
This section describes changes to Informatica adapters in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
PowerExchange for Salesforce
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the PowerExchange for Salesforce connection listed under the Enterprise connection category is deprecated and Informatica will drop support in the next major release. Informatica recommends that you use the new PowerExchange for Salesforce connection listed under the Cloud connection category to read data from and write data to Salesforce.
PowerExchange for Mongo DB
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the name of the Informatica PowerExchange for Mongo DB ODBC driver file is libinformaticamongodbodbc64.so.
Previously, the name of the Informatica PowerExchange for Mongo DB ODBC driver file was libsimbamongodbodbc64.so.
PowerExchange Adapters for PowerCenter
This section describes changes to PowerCenter adapters in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
PowerExchange for Mongo DB
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the name of the Informatica PowerExchange for Mongo DB ODBC driver file is libinformaticamongodbodbc64.so.
Previously, the name of the Informatica PowerExchange for Mongo DB ODBC driver file was libsimbamongodbodbc64.so.
Reference Data
This section describes changes to reference data functionality in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1.
Probabilistic Models
Effective in version 9.6.1 HotFix 1, the Developer tool uses version 3.4 of the Stanford Named Entity Recognition API to compile a probabilistic model.
Previously, the Developer tool used version 1.2.6 of the API to compile a probabilistic model.