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Informatica Cloud Service

Informatica Cloud is an on-demand subscription service that provides access to applications, databases, platforms, and flat files hosted on premise or on a cloud. Informatica Cloud runs at a hosting facility.

Permissions to Configure the Resource

To access synchronization task, mapping task, and PowerCenter task objects in the Informatica Cloud Services, the cloud user must have Cloud REST API license and read permission on the tasks.

Prerequisites

Before you add an Informatica Cloud Service resource, perform the following steps:
  1. 1. Create an organization for your company on the Informatica Cloud website, define the organization hierarchy, and configure the organization properties. You must perform this step before you can use Informatica Cloud.
    2. Note: To create an organization, you must have a REST API license. If you do not have a REST API license, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
  2. 2. Create a subscription account on Informatica Cloud.
  3. 3. Verify that the machine where you install the Informatica Cloud Secure Agent meets the minimum system requirements. The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent is a lightweight program that runs all tasks and enables secure communication across the firewall between your organization and Informatica Cloud.
  4. 4. Download, install, and register the Informatica Cloud Secure Agent using the Informatica Cloud user name and password.
  5. 5. Create the following tasks on Informatica Cloud:
    1. a. Mapping tasks
      2. A mapping defines reusable data flow logic that you can use in Mapping Configuration tasks. Use a mapping to define data flow logic that is not available in Data Synchronization tasks, such as specific ordering of logic or joining sources from different systems. When you configure a mapping, you describe the flow of data from source and target. You can add transformations to transform data, such as an Expression transformation for row-level calculations or a Filter transformation to remove data from the data flow.
    2. b. PowerCenter tasks
      3. The PowerCenter task allows you to import PowerCenter workflows in to Informatica Cloud and run them as Informatica Cloud tasks.
    3. c. Data synchronization tasks
      4. The Data Synchronization task allows you to synchronize data between a source and target.
Note: An Informatica Cloud Service resource imports all the tasks to Enterprise Data Catalog the first time metadata is extracted from the resource. During the subsequent extract operations, the resource imports only the updated tasks to Enterprise Data Catalog.
For more information about the prerequisites, see the Informatica Cloud User Guide and the Informatica Cloud Administrator Guide.

Resource Connection Properties

The General tab includes the following properties:
Property
Description
Cloud URL
The URL to access the Informatica Cloud Service.
Username
The user name to connect to the Informatica Cloud Service.
Password
The password associated with the user name.
Auto Assign Connections
Select this option to specify that the connection must be assigned automatically.
The Metadata Load Settings tab includes the following properties:
Property
Description
Enable Source Metadata
Select to extract metadata from the data source.
Detailed Lineage
Select to extract and ingest metadata related to transformation logic for assets that include transformations. A transformation indicates generation, modification, or passage of data between source and target connections. A transformation logic displays the mappings or data flow relation types between source assets and target assets related to the asset you select in Enterprise Data Catalog.
Memory
Specifies the memory required to run the scanner job. Select one of the following values based on the data set size imported:
  • - Low
  • - Medium
  • - High
Note: For more information about the memory values, see the Tuning Enterprise Data Catalog Performance article on How To-Library Articles tab in the Informatica Doc Portal
JVM Options
JVM parameters that you can set to configure scanner container. Use the following arguments to configure the parameters:
  • - -Dscannerloglevel=<DEBUG/INFO/ERROR>. Changes the log level of scanner to values, such as DEBUG, ERROR, or INFO. Default value is INFO.
  • - -Dscanner.container.core=<No. of core>. Increases the core for the scanner container. The value should be a number.
  • - -Dscanner.yarn.app.environment=<key=value>. Key pair value that you need to set in the Yarn environment. Use a comma to separate the key pair value.
  • - -Dscanner.pmem.enabled.container.memory.jvm.memory.ratio=<1.0/2.0>. Increases the scanner container memory when pmem is enabled. Default value is 1.