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Datatype Reference Overview

Informatica Cloud uses the following datatypes in mappings, Data Synchronization tasks, and Mapping Configuration tasks with Qlik:
Qlik native datatypes
Qlik data types appear in the Target transformations when you choose to edit metadata for the fields.
Transformation datatypes
Set of datatypes that appear in the transformations. They are internal datatypes based on ANSI SQL-92 generic datatypes, which the agent uses to move data across platforms. Transformation data types appear in all transformations in a mapping.
When Informatica Cloud reads source data, it converts the native data types to the comparable transformation data types before transforming the data. When Informatica Cloud writes to a target, it converts the transformation data types to the comparable native datatypes.