PC 851 AdministratorGuide

Administrator Guide

Informatica PowerCenter (Version 8.5.1)

Informatica PowerCenter Administrator Guide

Version 8.5.1 December 2007

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Table of Contents

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi v

List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxixInformatica Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Informatica Customer Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Informatica Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Informatica Knowledge Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Informatica Global Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Chapter 1: Understanding Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Gateway Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Worker Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Service Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Application Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Reporting Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Metadata Manager Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

SAP BW Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Web Services Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 2: Using the Administration Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Logging In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Managing Your Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Configuring HTTPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Creating a Keystore File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Configuring HTTPS Using infasetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Domain Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Domain Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24able of Contents

Logs Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Permissions Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Reports Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Upgrade Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Manage Account Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using the Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Application Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Security Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Search Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using the Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 3: Managing the Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Managing Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring SMTP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Subscribing to Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Viewing Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Managing Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Creating a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Moving Objects to a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Removing a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Managing Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Inherited and Object Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Steps to Assign Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Managing Application Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Enabling and Disabling Services and Service Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Configuring Restart for Service Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Removing Application Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Table of Contents vii

Managing Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Defining and Adding Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Configuring Node Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Viewing Processes on the Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Shutting Down and Restarting the Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Removing a Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Managing the Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Shutting Down a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Managing the Domain Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Domain Configuration Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Backing Up the Domain Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Restoring the Domain Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Migrating the Domain Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Updating the Domain Configuration Database Connection . . . . . . . . . . 81

Custom Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Domain Properties Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

General Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Database Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Log and Gateway Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Service Level Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

SMTP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Chapter 4: Managing Users and Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Understanding User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Default Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Domain Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Application Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Understanding Authentication and Security Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Native Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

LDAP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Setting Up LDAP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Step 1. Set Up the Connection to the LDAP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Step 2. Configure Security Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Step 3. Schedule the Synchronization Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Deleting an LDAP Security Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103able of Contents

Using a Self-Signed SSL Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using Nested Groups in the LDAP Directory Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Managing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Adding Native Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Editing General Properties of Native Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Assigning Users to Native Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Enabling and Disabling User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Deleting Native Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Managing Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Adding a Native Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Editing Properties of a Native Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Moving a Native Group to Another Native Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Deleting a Native Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Managing Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Steps to Configure an Operating System Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Create Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Properties of Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Permissions on Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 5: Managing Privileges and Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Domain Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Tools Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Security Administration Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Domain Administration Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Repository Service Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Tools Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Folders Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Design Objects Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Sources and Targets Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Run-time Objects Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Global Objects Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Metadata Manager Service Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Browse Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Table of Contents ix

Load Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Reporting Service Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Administration Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Alerts Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Communication Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Content Directory Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Dashboards Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Indicators Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Manage Account Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Reports Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Managing Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

System-Defined Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Managing Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Assigning Privileges and Roles to Users and Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Inherited Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Steps to Assign Privileges and Roles to Users and Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Viewing Users with Privileges for a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Chapter 6: Managing High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Restart and Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

High Availability in the Base Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Internal PowerCenter Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Repository Service Resilience to Repository Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Restart Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Manual Workflow and Session Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Multiple Gateway Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

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Achieving High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Configuring PowerCenter Internal Components for High Availability . . 174

Using Highly Available External Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Rules and Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Managing Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178able of Contents

Configuring Service Resilience for the Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Configuring Application Service Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Understanding PowerCenter Client Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Configuring Command Line Program Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Managing High Availability for the Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Restart and Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Managing High Availability for the Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Restart and Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Chapter 7: Creating and Configuring the Repository Service . . . . . 191Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Creating a Database for the Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Creating the Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Creating a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Database Connect Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Configuring Repository Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Node Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

General Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Database Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Advanced Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Custom Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Configuring Repository Service Process Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Custom Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Environment Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Chapter 8: Managing the Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Enabling and Disabling the Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Enabling and Disabling a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Enabling and Disabling Service Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Table of Contents xi

Running in Exclusive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Creating and Deleting Repository Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Creating Repository Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Deleting Repository Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Enabling Version Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Managing a Repository Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Prerequisites for a Repository Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Steps for Building a Repository Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Promoting a Local Repository to a Global Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Registering a Local Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Viewing Registered Local and Global Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Moving Local and Global Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Managing User Connections and Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Viewing Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Viewing User Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Closing User Connections and Releasing Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Sending Repository Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Backing Up and Restoring the Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Backing Up a Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Viewing a List of Backup Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Restoring a Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Copying Content from Another Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Registering and Unregistering Repository Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Registering a Repository Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Unregistering a Repository Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Creating an Audit Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Tuning Repository Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Updating Repository Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Increasing Repository Copy, Backup, and Restore Performance . . . . . . 237

Configuring Data Lineage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

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Chapter 9: Creating and Configuring the Integration Service . . . . . 239Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Creating an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Enabling and Disabling the Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Enabling and Disabling an Integration Service Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244able of Contents

Enabling and Disabling the Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Running in Normal and Safe Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Changing the Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Running the Integration Service in Safe Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Steps to Configure the Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Configuring the Integration Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Grid and Node Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252



Compatibility and Database Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Configuration Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

HTTP Proxy Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Using Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Operating System Profile Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Configuring Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Troubleshooting Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Configuring the Associated Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Configuring the Integration Service Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Directories for Integration Service Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Directories for Java Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Configuring Properties for a Service Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Chapter 10: Integration Service Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Integration Service Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Integration Service Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Managing Workflow Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Locking and Reading the Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Reading the Parameter File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Creating the Workflow Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Running Workflow Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Running Workflows Across the Nodes in a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Starting the DTM Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Writing Historical Information to the Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Sending Post-Session Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Load Balancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Table of Contents xiii

Dispatch Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Resource Provision Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Dispatch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Service Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Data Transformation Manager (DTM) Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Reading the Session Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Performing Pushdown Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Creating Dynamic Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Forming Partition Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Expanding Variables and Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Creating the Session Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Validating Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Verifying Connection Object Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Starting Worker DTM Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Running Pre-Session Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Running the Processing Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Running Post-Session Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Sending Post-Session Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Processing Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Thread Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Pipeline Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

DTM Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Reading Source Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Blocking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Block Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Running a Workflow on a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Running a Session on a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

System Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

CPU Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

DTM Buffer Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Cache Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

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Code Pages and Data Movement Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

ASCII Data Movement Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Unicode Data Movement Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Output Files and Caches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Workflow Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302able of Contents

Session Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Session Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Performance Detail File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Reject Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Row Error Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Recovery Tables Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Control File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Indicator File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Output File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Cache Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Chapter 11: Creating and Configuring the Metadata Manager Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Steps to Configure a Metadata Manager Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Creating a Metadata Manager Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Database Connect Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Creating and Deleting Repository Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Creating the Metadata Manager Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Restoring the PowerCenter Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Deleting the Metadata Manager Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Enabling and Disabling the Metadata Manager Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Configuring the Metadata Manager Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318



Database Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Configuration Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Connection Pool Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322


Configuring the Associated Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Privileges for the Associated Integration Service User . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Chapter 12: Creating the Reporting Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

PowerCenter Repository Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328Table of Contents xv

Metadata Manager Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Data Profiling Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Other Reporting Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Creating the Reporting Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Managing the Reporting Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Enabling and Disabling a Reporting Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Creating Contents in the Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Backing Up Contents of the Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Restoring Contents to the Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Deleting Contents from the Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Upgrading Contents of the Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Upgrading Users and Groups in the Data Analyzer Repository . . . . . . . 339

Viewing Last Activity Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Configuring the Reporting Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340



Data Source Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Repository Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Lineage Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343


Granting Users Access to Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Chapter 13: Managing the Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Configuring the Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Configuring the Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Configuring the Integration Service to Run on a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Configuring the Service Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Configuring Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Viewing Resources in a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Assigning Connection Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

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Defining Custom and File/Directory Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Chapter 14: Configuring the Load Balancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Configuring the Dispatch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359able of Contents

Round-Robin Dispatch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Metric-Based Dispatch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Adaptive Dispatch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Creating Service Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Configuring Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Calculating the CPU Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Defining Resource Provision Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Chapter 15: Creating and Configuring the SAP BW Service . . . . . . 367Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Load Balancing for the BW System and the SAP BW Service . . . . . . . . 368

Creating the SAP BW Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Enabling and Disabling the SAP BW Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Configuring the SAP BW Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Configuring the Associated Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Configuring the SAP BW Service Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Viewing Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Chapter 16: Creating and Configuring the Web Services Hub . . . . 377Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Creating a Web Services Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Enabling and Disabling the Web Services Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Configuring the Web Services Hub Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383




Configuring the Associated Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Adding an Associated Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Editing an Associated Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Setting Permissions for the Web Services Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Chapter 17: Managing Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

License Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Licensing Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

License Management Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Table of Contents xvii

Types of License Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Original Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Incremental Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Creating a License Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Assigning a License to a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Rules and Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Unassigning a License from a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Updating a License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Removing a License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Viewing License Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403


Supported Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

PowerCenter Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Metadata Exchange Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Chapter 18: Managing Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Log Manager Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Log Manager Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Troubleshooting the Log Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Configuring the Log Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Configuring Log Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Purging Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Exporting Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Configuring the Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Steps to Configure Log Management Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Using the Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Viewing Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Searching Log Event Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Configuring Log Viewer Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

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Saving Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Viewing Administration Console Log Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Understanding Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Log Event Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Domain Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427able of Contents

Repository Service Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Reporting Service Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Metadata Manager Service Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Integration Service Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

SAP BW Service Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Web Services Hub Log Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Chapter 19: Running Domain Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Monitoring Domain User Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Monitoring License Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

CPU Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Repository Service Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Source/Target Connectivity Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Running the License Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Monitoring Web Service Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Understanding the Web Services Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Contents of the Web Services Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Running the Web Services Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Chapter 20: Understanding Globalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Working with a Unicode PowerCenter Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

System Locale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

User Locale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Input Locale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Data Movement Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Character Data Movement Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Changing Data Movement Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Code Page Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

UNIX Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Windows Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Choosing a Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Code Page Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

PowerCenter Domain Configuration Database Code Page . . . . . . . . . . 465Table of Contents xix

Administration Console Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

PowerCenter Client Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Integration Service Process Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

PowerCenter Repository Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Metadata Manager Repository Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Source Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Target Code Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Command Line Program Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Code Page Compatibility Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

PowerCenter Code Page Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Relaxed Code Page Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Configuring the Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Selecting Compatible Source and Target Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Troubleshooting for Code Page Relaxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

PowerCenter Code Page Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Choosing Characters for Repository Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Case Study: Processing ISO 8859-1 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

The ISO 8859-1 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Configuring the ISO 8859-1 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Case Study: Processing Unicode UTF-8 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

The UTF-8 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Configuring the UTF-8 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

UTF-8 Case Study: Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Appendix A: Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Supported Code Pages for Application Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Supported Code Pages for Sources and Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Code Page Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Appendix B: Command Line Privileges and Permissions . . . . . . . . 503infacmd Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

pmcmd Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

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pmrep Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Appendix C: Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519Repository Service Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Metadata Manager Service Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521able of Contents

Reporting Service Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

List of Figures

Figure 1-1. Domain Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Figure 1-2. Application Services Configured to Run on Nodes Without High Availability . . . . . 8

Figure 1-3. Application Services Configured to Run on Nodes with High Availability . . . . . . . . 8List of Figures xxi

Figure 2-1. Manage Account Tab of the Administration Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 2-2. Domain Page of the Administration Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Figure 2-3. Domain Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 2-4. Logs Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Figure 2-5. Permissions Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Figure 2-6. Reports Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Figure 2-7. Manage Account Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Figure 2-8. Objects in the Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Figure 2-9. Domain Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Figure 2-10. Legend for Overview Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 2-11. Folder Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 2-12. Integration Service Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 2-13. Repository Service Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 2-14. Metadata Manager Service Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 2-15. SAP BW Service Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 2-16. Web Services Hub Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 2-17. Node Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 2-18. Grid Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 2-19. License Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Figure 2-20. Security Page of the Administration Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Figure 2-21. Search Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Figure 2-22. Sections of the Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 2-23. Group Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 2-24. User Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 2-25. Role Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 3-1. Folder Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 3-2. Inherited and Object Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Figure 3-3. Properties Tab for a Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Figure 3-4. General Properties for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Figure 3-5. Database Properties for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 3-6. Log and Gateway Configuration for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Figure 3-7. Service Level Management for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 3-8. SMTP Configuration for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 4-1. Configure Operating System Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Figure 4-2. Create Operating System Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Figure 4-3. Properties of Operating System Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Figure 4-4. Permissions Tab of Operating System Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Figure 5-1. Privilege Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Figure 5-2. Privileges that Include Other Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Figure 5-3. Role Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Figure 5-4. Inherited Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Figure 6-1. High Availability Configuration with Two Gateway Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Figure 6-2. High Availability Configuration with Multiple Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176ist of Figures

Figure 6-3. Domain Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

Figure 6-4. Resilience Timeout in a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Figure 7-1. Repository Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198

Figure 7-2. Advanced Properties for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

Figure 7-3. Process Properties for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Figure 8-1. List of Plug-ins for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234

Figure 8-2. Lineage Tab for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238

Figure 9-1. Node Assignments for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253

Figure 9-2. Grid Assignments for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Figure 9-3. General Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Figure 9-4. Advanced Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256

Figure 9-5. Compatibility and Database Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . .259

Figure 9-6. Configuration Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262

Figure 9-7. HTTP Proxy Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Figure 9-8. Associated Repository for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267

Figure 9-9. General Properties for an Integration Service Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

Figure 10-1. Integration Service and Data Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276

Figure 10-2. Thread Creation for a Simple Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289

Figure 10-3. Thread Creation for a Pass-through Pipeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290

Figure 10-4. Partitioned Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

Figure 10-5. Target Load Order Groups and Source Pipelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293

Figure 10-6. Service Process Distribution for a Workflow Running on a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . .295

Figure 10-7. Service Process and DTM Distribution for a Session Running on a Grid . . . . . . .296

Figure 11-1. Metadata Manager Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308

Figure 11-2. Create New Metadata Manager Service Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311

Figure 11-3. Metadata Manager Service Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319

Figure 11-4. Associated Integration Service Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324

Figure 12-1. Reporting Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340

Figure 12-2. Data Source Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .342

Figure 12-3. Repository Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .342

Figure 12-4. Lineage Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343

Figure 13-1. Configuring an Integration Service to Run on a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .348

Figure 13-2. Node Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353

Figure 14-1. Domain Properties Tab Showing the Dispatch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359

Figure 14-2. Domain Properties Tab Showing Service Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362

Figure 14-3. Node Properties Tab Showing CPU Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365

Figure 18-1. Log Event Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413

Figure 20-1. Code Page Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Figure 20-2. ISO 8859-1 Case Study Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Figure 20-3. UTF-8 Case Study Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Figure 20-4. Summary of UTF-8 Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485List of Figures xxiii

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List of Tables

Table 1-1. Domain Functions Performed by the Service Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Table 2-1. Keyboard Shortcuts for the Administration Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Table 3-1. Alert Types and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50List of Tables xxv

Table 3-2. Description of Service Process Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Table 3-3. General Properties for a Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Table 3-4. Database Properties for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Table 3-5. Log and Gateway Configuration for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Table 3-6. Service Level Management for a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Table 3-7. SMTP Configuration for a Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Table 4-1. LDAP Server Configuration Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Table 4-2. LDAP Security Domain Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Table 5-1. Domain Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Table 5-2. Tools Privilege Group for the Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Table 5-3. Security Administration Privilege Group and Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Table 5-4. Domain Administration Privilege Group and Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Table 5-5. Repository Service Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Table 5-6. Tools Privilege Group for the Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Table 5-7. Folders Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Table 5-8. Design Objects Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Table 5-9. Sources and Targets Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Table 5-10. Run-time Objects Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Table 5-11. Global Objects Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Table 5-12. Metadata Manager Service Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Table 5-13. Browse Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Table 5-14. Load Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Table 5-15. Model Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Table 5-16. Security Privilege Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Table 5-17. Reporting Service Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Table 5-18. Administration Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Table 5-19. Alerts Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Table 5-20. Communication Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Table 5-21. Content Directory Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Table 5-22. Dashboard Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Table 5-23. Indicators Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Table 5-24. Manage Account Privilege Group and Permission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Table 5-25. Reports Privilege Group and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Table 5-26. Tasks Determined by the Administrator Role for the Domain and Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Table 6-1. Resilience Timeout in a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Table 6-2. Restart and Failover for an Integration Service Running on a Single Node . . . . . . . 186

Table 6-3. Restart and Failover Behavior for Integration Service Running on a Primary Node. 187

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Table 6-4. Restart and Failover for an Integration Service Running on a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

Table 7-1. Create New Repository Service Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Table 7-2. Native Connect String Syntax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Table 7-3. General Properties for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Table 7-4. Database Properties for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

Table 7-5. Advanced Properties for a Repository Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201ist of Tables

Table 9-1. Create New Integration Service Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242

Table 9-2. Safe Mode Tasks for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249

Table 9-3. Grid/Node Assignments for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Table 9-4. General Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Table 9-5. Advanced Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257

Table 9-6. Compatibility and Database Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260

Table 9-7. Configuration Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262

Table 9-8. HTTP Proxy Properties for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Table 9-9. Associated Repository for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267

Table 9-10. General Properties for an Integration Service Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

Table 10-1. Connectivity Requirements for an Integration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278

Table 11-1. Metadata Manager Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312

Table 11-2. Native Connect String Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Table 11-3. Metadata Manager and PowerCenter Repository Creation Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314

Table 11-4. Metadata Manager Service General Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Table 11-5. Metadata Manager Repository Database Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Table 11-6. Metadata Manager Service Configuration Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

Table 11-7. Metadata Manager Service Connection Pool Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

Table 11-8. Metadata Manager Service Advanced Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Table 11-9. Associated Integration Service Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324

Table 11-10. Required Privileges for Associated Integration Service User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325

Table 13-1. Resource Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .352

Table 14-1. Differences Among Load Balancer Dispatch Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360

Table 15-1. Create New SAP BW Service Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .369

Table 16-1. Create New Web Services Hub Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380

Table 16-2. General Properties for a Web Services Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384

Table 16-3. Advanced Properties for a Web Services Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385

Table 17-1. General Properties for a License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .404

Table 17-2. Supported Platform Properties for a License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .405

Table 18-1. Purge Log Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417

Table 18-2. Export Log Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418

Table 18-3. Query Options for Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .422

Table 19-1. Web Services Report Data From Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443

Table 20-1. Session and File Cache Handling After Data Movement Mode Change . . . . . . . . .458

Table 20-2. Code Page Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .470

Table A-1. Supported Code Pages for Application Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .488

Table A-2. Supported Code Pages for Sources and Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .490

Table A-3. Compatible Code Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Table B-1. Required Privileges and Permissions for infacmd Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Table B-2. Required Privileges and Permissions for pmcmd Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Table B-3. Required Privileges and Permissions for pmrep Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Table C-1. Repository Service Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Table C-2. Metadata Manager Service Custom Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521List of Tables xxvii

Table C-3. Reporting Service Custom Roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

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