Data Type Reference Overview
Informatica Cloud uses the following data types in mappings, Data Synchronization tasks, and Mapping Configuration tasks with SAP SuccessFactors:
- SAP SuccessFactors Data Types
- SAP SuccessFactors native data types appear in the Fields tab for Source and Target transformations when you choose to edit metadata for the fields.
- Transformation Data Types
- Set of data types that appear in the transformations. They are internal data types based on ANSI SQL-92 generic data types, 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 data types.