Mapping Scenarios

Scenario:1 : How to achieve the cumulative sum?

Source:
col1 col2
7369 800
7499 1600
7521 1250
Target:
col1 col2 col3
7369 800 800
7900 950 1750
7876 1100 2850
7521 1250 4100
Expression Transformation

Create one variableport :

v_cum_sal=v_cum_sal+COL2
Create one ouputport:
o_cum_sal=v_cum_sql
Scenario 2:
member family contr
1 A
10000
2 A
20000
3 A
10000
4 B
20
5 B
20
member family contr%
1 A 25%
2 A 50%
3 A 25%
4 B 50%
5 B 50%
Solution 1: Aggregator Transformation; Source Qualifier;Expression Transformation;

1) Drag same source twice.

2) Select Aggregator Transform
a) Link second source ports "FAMILY" , "CONTR" to Aggregator Tranf
b)Add one output port O_SUM = SUM(contr)
b) Select group by "FAMILY"
3) Select Joiner Transform:
a) Link second pipeline ports "FAMILY" , "O_SUM" to Joiner Tranf and select as Master port
b) Renames to port as FAMILY-> FAMILY_M
O_SUM -> IN_SUM
c) Link first pipeline ports "MEMBER","FAMILY" and "CONTR" to Joiner Tranf
4) Select Expression Tranf:
a) Link Ports "MEMBER","FAMILY","IN_SUM","CONTR" to Expression Tranf
b) Add output port PCNTR:
CONTR* 100 ||IN_SUM ||'%'
5) Link Ports "MEMBER","FAMILY","PCNTR" to Target.

Solution 2: Using Source Qualifier; Expression Transformation;

1) Select source qualifier:

Write sqloverride:
select a.member as "MEMBER",
a.family as "FAMILY",
(a.contr*100/b.s_contr ) as CONTR
from tbl_3 a,
(select family, sum(contr) s_contr from TBL_3
group by family) b
where a.family = b.family
2) Select Expression:
a) Link ports "MEMBER" ,"FAMILY" and "CONTR" to Expression Tranf
b) Add output port PCNTR : CONTR||'%'
3) Link ports to Target.
Scenario 3 : Achieve the the pivoting of records:
Source:
col2 col1
a 1
b 1
c 1
d 1
p 2
q 2
r 2
x 3
Target:
col1 col2
1 a,b,c,d
2 p,q,r
3 x

Source Qualifier; Expression Transformation,Sorter Transformation,Aggregator Transformation;

1) Sorter Transform:
Sort by COL1
2) Expression Transform:
Add 2 new variable:
v_col_string=decode(v_prev_col,COL1,v_col_string||','||COL2,COL2)
v_prev_col =COL1
Add 1 ouputport:
o_fin_string=v_col_string
Port sequence:
COL1
COL2
v_col_string
o_fin_string
v_prev_col
3)Aggregator Transformation
When you group values, the Integration Service produces last row for each group.
so it will return :
1 a,b,c,d
2 p,q,r
3x
Scenario 4:
I have a scenario in which the source consists of 2 cols
col1 col2
10 A
10 A
20 C
30 D
40 E
20 C
and there are 2 targets one to load distinct values and another one to load duplicate values.
T1
col1 col2
10 A
20 C

30 D
40 E
T2
col1 col2
10 A
20 C
Solution:
Source Qualifier; Expression Transformation,Sorter Transformation ,Router Transformation
1)Link ports from Source qualifier to sorter transform for key col1, col2
sorted data:
10 A
10 A
20 C
20 C
30 D
40 E
2)Link ports to Expression Transform:
New ports :
v_count =decode(COL1,v_pre_col1 ,decode(COL2,v_pre_col2,v_count+1,1),1)
o_count=v_count
v_pre_col1=COL1
v_pre_col2=COL2
3)Link to Router Transform:
Group:
4) link all Output ports to target
Scenario 5:
Unpivorting the records
Source:
col1 qt1 qt2 qt3 qt4
1
2
3
Target:

100
100
100

200
200
200

300
300
300

400
400
400

col1 col2 col3

1
qt1 100
1
qt2 200
1
qt3 300
1
qt4 400
2
qt1 100
2
qt2 200
2
qt3 300
2
qt4 400
3
qt1 100
3
qt2 200
3
qt3 300
3
qt4 400
Source Qualifier; Normalizer Transformation ;Expression Transformation

1) Drag Source and Normalizer Transform:

a) Click on Normalizer: Add two PORTS and add LEVEL EXPREC top of the port exp
Ports: COL1, EXP
Level : EXPREC
b) Port EXP -> Occurs =4 And Level =2

c)Click on Ports tab:

d) Link the source columns to Normalizer :
2) Drag Expression Transform
a) Drag the normalizer columns COL1, exp, GCID_exp to Expression Transf:
b) Add new output port :

OUT_EXP=DECODE(GCID_exp,1,'QT1',2,'QT2',3,'QT3','QT4')
3) Link ports Col1, exp and OUT_exp to Target.
Scenario 6 : Get the highest salaried and lowest Salaried employee for each department.?
Union Transformation,Rank Transformation
1) Drag 2 rank Transform :
RNKTRANS : Get Highest salary
Set Properties : Number of Ranks =1 , Top/Bottom = Top
RNKTRANS1: Get Lowest salary
Set Properties : Number of Ranks =1 , Top/Bottom = Bottom
2)Drag Union Transform :
a) Link all ports to Default Group
b) Create two groups : TOP_SAL and BOTTOM_SAL:
3) Link all Ports to target.

Suppose we have customer data coming in below format and we want to have last 3 rows in
target

Step1)
Create expression transformation (exp_Build_Logic) drag all three input ports and create three
extra ports as below
v_dummy (Output Port) Assign Value 1 to it
v_Total_Count (Variable Port) := v_Total_Count+1
o_Total_Count := v_Total_Count

Step2) Create Aggregator transformation with all ports and do not choose any port as group by
port

Step 3)
Create Joiner transformation jnr_Agg_Expression as Sorted Input (You need to choose this
option as you are trying to use two sources originating from same source)
Take two ports from aggregator and rest from expression transformation and join on field
v_dummy

Output from joiner

Step 4) Create filter transformation after joiner with following conditions

o_Total_Count_Agg-o_Total_Count1<=2

This will past last three records

Step5)
Output will be

Mapping

Informatica Scenario based interview questions (Convert columns into

rows)
This is the one of most frequently asked informatica scenario based interview
question.

We have source data like below in table

A

Output required is
A
B
C

I have seen rarely a candidate answer this question correctly. Their answer is mostly
a crammed (by reading on various website) without understanding core concept of
informatica transformations.
I will explain three methods to achieve this then we will find out which one is best
method
1.
2.
3.

Router Transformation
Normalizer Transformation
Java Transformation

Router Transformation : This method take advantage of the fact that router is an
active transformation and one row can fall into multiple groups i.e. if a row satisfies
condition of three groups then it will fall into three groups and will produce three
rows for one input row.

Step1)
Suppose we have a source with three input columns

Step2) Create an expression Transformation with field name FLD_OUTPUT to

concatenate three fields separated by # sign

Step3) Create a router transformation with three output groups with condition
GROUP1 : substr(FLD_OUTPUT,1,instr(FLD_OUTPUT,'#')-1)=FLD1
GROUP2 : substr(FLD_OUTPUT,instr(FLD_OUTPUT,'#')+1,instr(FLD_OUTPUT,'#',2)1)=FLD2
GROUP3: substr(FLD_OUTPUT,instr(FLD_OUTPUT,'#',3)+1)=FLD3

Purpose of this is that row will fall into three groups ..we are extracting string from
concatenated string are comparing to respective field.i.e value A will be in first
group and B in second group and so on

Step4) Create union transformation to combine output from three output group from
router..Take FLD1 from first group, FLD2 from second group ,FLD3 from third group

Output from union will be

A
B
C

Core Concept: if a row satisfies condition of three groups then it will fall into three
groups and will produce three rows for one input row.

Easy isnt it No need to cram. We will now move to other methods

Normalizer : Normalizer transformation has a property Occurs : The number of

instances of a column or group of columns in the source row.

You can define number of occurrence of source field, Once you define number of
occurrence then informatica automatically creates that number of input ports. In
this case 3

Connect FLD1, FLD2 and FLD3 from source or expression in step2 of first method
and FLD as output connected to target.

Output from normalizer will be

A
B
C

Core Concept : Normalizer transformation has a property Occurs: The number of

instances of a column or group of columns in the source row.

Let us move to final and best method

Java Transformation : We will take advantage of property, Java transformation is

most underutilized transformation of informatica, If used properly it can do magic

Generate Transaction

Create a java transformation with one input and one output field

Now connect concatenated field (A#B#C) from expression in step2 of first method
to FLD_INPUT of java transformation

Now go to java code and copy below

String[] str_fld_nm=FLD_INPUT.split("#");
for(int i=0; i
FLD_OUTPUT =str_fld_nm[i];
generateRow();
}

It is using java functionality of array to break input field and multiple fld and then
taking advantage of generateRow() to produce multiple rows.

Now connect FLD_OUTPUT to target and it will be

A
B
C

Core concept : Java functionality to break concatenated string into multiple fields
and generateRow() to produce multiple rows.

Now we have covered all three features. Let us see which one is best

Feature

Router

Normaliser

Java

Flexiblity

Low (As you have

to hardcode
number of fields)

Low (As you have to

hardcode number of
occurrence )

High (No Hard

coding as it can
handle any
number of fields)

Ease

High as developer
are comfortable
with using router
transformation

Medium as
developer dont use
it frequently

Low. As most
developer are not
from java
background. It is
difficult for them to
understand it

If you need xml of mapping then please send a mail to support@itnirvanas.com or

lalits77@gmail.com

I request again dont cram answers..Instead understand the concepts..

Posted by Lalit Sharma at 14:34 1 Comment

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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Generating Dynamic Multiple Target files in Informatica
Recently we came across a scenario to generate multiple dynamic Multiple Target files in
Informatica. We receive vendor data through Legacy database in below table

1. Invoice_ID
2. Invoice_No
3. Invoice_Amount
4. Vendor_Id

We need to separate all details related to one vendor in separate file so that we can pass data
to third part vendors in separate file.

INVOICE_DETAILS

INVOICE
_ID

INVOICE_
NO

INVOICE_AMO
UNT

VENDOR
_ID

1 A01

100.00

10

2 A02

125.00

10

3 A03

150.00

10

4 B01

200.00

20

5 B02

500.00

20

6 D01

345.00

40

7 C01

230.00

30

8 D02

450.00

40

9 E01

40.00

50

In order to achieve this we need to follow below steps in mapping

Step1 ) Import INVOICE_DETAILS and drag into mapping and connect all port from Source
qualifier to expression and do below sql override

SELECT INVOICE_DETAILS.INVOICE_ID, INVOICE_DETAILS.INVOICE_NO,

INVOICE_DETAILS.INVOIC_AMOUNT, INVOICE_DETAILS.VENDOR_ID
FROM
INVOICE_DETAILS
order by VENDOR_ID

Step2) Create expression transformation with as below with 4 input port plus

1.

'Vendor_'||VENDOR_ID||'Details.csv'FILE_NAME (Output Port)

2.

iif (VENDOR_IDCHECK_VENDOR_ID(Variable Port) <> PREV_VENDOR_ID,1,0)

3.

CHECK_VENDOR_IDOUTPUT_VENDOR_ID (Output)

3. PREV_VENDOR_ID (Variable) VENDOR_ID

Step 3 ) Create Transaction Control Transformation (TC_GENERATE_FILES) with below logic

iif(OUTPUT_VENDOR_ID=1,TC_COMMIT_BEFORE,TC_CONTINUE_TRANSACTION)

Step 4 ) Create a File Target with same structure as source table and new field in target using
option Add FileName to this Table

Connect FileName column from transaction control to FileName Port.

Step5) Run the workflow and below files will be created

Posted by Lalit Sharma at 15:45 0 Comments

Labels: Informatica, Informatica interview questions, Informatica scenario based
questions

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Informatica Scenario Based Interview Questions (Part1)

Interviewer asked How will you get first 3 records from flat file source? ...You will
say in your mind thats simple

You reply We can use variable in expression and increment it and the use filter
transformation to pass just first two records

Interviewer will come up with a new trick in his sleeve How will you get last 3
records from flat file source?

Dj vu J

You will think and try to build some logic on the fly and try to explain may we can
use this transformation or some another transformation and will get bit confused.

I have tried to explain this with a simple example

Suppose we have customer data coming in below format and we want to have last 3
rows in target

Step1)

Create expression transformation (exp_Build_Logic) drag all three input ports and
create three extra ports as below

v_dummy (Output Port) Assign Value 1 to it

v_Total_Count (Variable Port) := v_Total_Count+1
o_Total_Count := v_Total_Count

Step2) Create Aggregator transformation with all ports and do not choose any port
as group by port

Step 3)

Create Joiner transformation jnr_Agg_Expression as Sorted Input (You need to

choose this option as you are trying to use two sources originating from same
source)

Take two ports from aggregator and rest from expression transformation and join on
field v_dummy

Output from joiner

Step 4) Create filter transformation after joiner with following conditions

o_Total_Count_Agg-o_Total_Count1<=2

This will past last three records

Step5)

Output will be

Mapping

Informatica Common Errors :The Target Definition has more than one
Transaction Control point connected to it
Error : The Target Definition has more than one Transaction Control point
connected to it

Scenario :

Create a mapping with two streams( one with Transaction control and Second
without Transaction control)..You will get above error

Src1 - SQ1- EXP1- TGT1

Src2 - SQ2- Exp2-TC-TGT2

Reason :

Informatica processes transactional data row wise, hence,while using Transaction

control for one of the targets to define the transaction point, Informatica fails to
identify the transaction point for the other targets,This results in "The Target
Definition has more than one Transaction Control point connected to it".

Solution :

You need to define Transaction Control transformation in other pipeline with

property TC_CONTINUE_TRANSATION.
Posted by Lalit Sharma at 10:59 0 Comments
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Friday, 14 February 2014

Issue with informatica client in Dual Monitor
Problem

Recently i started with informatica in dual monitor and found few issues (Like
Expression editor size and sq editor getting greyed out)

Solution

At commend prompt type regedit and go to below path (Please take backup of
registry before making any changes)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Informatica\PowerMart Client
Tools\9.1.0\Designer\Options\Global\Editor\SQL

Change the values of the following to 0

Expression Editor Position

Expression Editor Splitter Position
SQL Editor Position
SQL Editor Splitter Position

Please restart your pc after changing the registry values.

Informatica Scenario based Questions and Solutions (Part-1)

Scenario1:
We have a target source table containing 3 columns : Col1, Col2 and Col3.
There is only 1 row in the table as follows:
Col1 Col2 Col3
----------------a
b
c
There is target table containg only 1 column Col. Design a mapping so that
the target table contains 3 rows as follows:
Col
----a
b
c
Solution: Not using a Normalizer transformation:
Create 3 expression transformations exp_1,exp_2 and exp_3 with 1 port
each. Connect col1 from Source Qualifier to port in exp_1.Connect col2 from Source
Qualifier to port in exp_2.Connect col3 from source qualifier to port in exp_3. Make 3
instances of the target. Connect port from exp_1 to target_1. Connect port from
exp_2 to target_2 and connect port from exp_3 to target_3.
Scenario 2:
There is a source table that contains duplicate rows.Design a mapping to
load all the unique rows in 1 target while all the duplicate rows (only 1
occurence) in another target.
Solution :
Bring all the columns from source qualifier to an Aggregator transformation. Check
group by on the key column. Create a new output port count_col in aggregator
transformation and write an expression count(key_column). Make a router
transformation with 2 groups:Dup and Non-Dup. Check the router conditions
count_col>1 in Dup group while count_col=1 in Non-dup group. Load these 2 groups
in different targets.
Scenario 3:

There is a source table containing 2 columns Col1 and Col2 with data as
follows:
Col1
a
b
a
a
b
x

Col2
l
p
m
n
q
y

Design a mapping to load a target table with following values from the
above mentioned source:
Col1
a
b
x

Col2
l,m,n
p,q
y

Solution:
Use a sorter transformation after the source qualifier to sort the values with col1 as
key. Build an expression transformation with following ports(order of ports should
also be the same):
1. Col1_prev : It will be a variable type port. Expression should contain a variable e.g
val
2. Col1 : It will be Input/Output port from Sorter transformation
3. Col2 : It will be input port from sorter transformation
4. val : It will be a variable type port. Expression should contain Col1
5. Concatenated_value: It will be a variable type port. Expression should be
decode(Col1,Col1_prev,Concatenated_value||','||Col2,Col1)
6. Concatenated_Final : It will be an outpur port conating the value of
Concatenated_value
After expression, build a Aggregator Transformation. Bring ports Col1 and
Concatenated_Final into aggregator. Group by Col1. Don't give any expression. This
effectively will return the last row from each group.
Connect the ports Col1 and Concatenated_Final from aggregator to the target table.
Scenario 4:

Design an Informatica mapping to load first half records to 1 target while

other half records to a separate target.
Solution:
You will have to assign a row number with each record. To achieve this, either use
Oracle's psudo column rownum in Source Qualifier query or use NEXTVAL port of a
Sequence generator. Lets name this column as rownumber.
From Source Qualifier, create 2 pipelines:
First Pipeline:
Carry first port Col1 from SQ transformation into an aggregator transformation.
Create a new output port "tot_rec" and give the expression as COUNT(Col1). Do not
group by any port. This will give us the total number of records in Source Table.
Carry this port tot_rec to an Expression Transformation. Add another port DUMMY in
expression transformation with default value 1.
Second Pipeline:
from SQ transformation, carry all the ports(including an additional port rownumber
generated by rownum or sequence generator) to an Expression Transformation. Add
another port DUMMY in expression transformation with default value 1.
Join these 2 pipelines with a Joiner Transformation on common port DUMMY. carry all
the source table ports and 2 additional ports tot_rec and rownumber to a router
transformation. Add 2 groups in Router : FIRST_HALF and SECOND_HALF. Give
condition rownumber<=tot_rec/2 in FIRST_HALF. Give condition
rownumber>tot_rec/2 in SECOND_HALF. Connect the 2 groups to 2 different targets.

Normalizer Transformation
Normalizer transformation is an Active and Connected transformation.

The Normalizer transformation receives a row that contains multiple-occurring

columns and returns a row for each instance of the multiple-occurring data. The
transformation processes multiple-occurring columns or multiple-occurring groups
of columns in each source row.

The Normalizer transformation parses multiple-occurring columns from COBOL

sources, relational tables, or other sources. It can process multiple record types
from a COBOL source that contains a REDEFINES clause.

For example, you might have a relational table that stores four quarters of sales by
store. You need to create a row for each sales occurrence. You can configure a
Normalizer transformation to return a separate row for each quarter.

You can create a VSAM Normalizer transformation or a pipeline Normalizer

transformation:

VSAM Normalizer transformation. A non-reusable transformation that is a

Source Qualifier transformation for a COBOL source. The Mapping Designer
creates VSAM Normalizer columns from a COBOL source in a mapping. The
column attributes are read-only. The VSAM Normalizer receives a multipleoccurring source column through one input port.

Pipeline Normalizer transformation. A transformation that processes

multiple-occurring data from relational tables or flat files. You create the
columns manually and edit them in the Transformation Developer or Mapping
Designer. The pipeline Normalizer transformation represents multipleoccurring columns with one input port for each source column occurrence.

Source Data:
EmpId

Ename

Salary1

Salary2

Salary3

1001

Raju

5000

8000

10000

1002

Ravi

6000

7000

11000

1003

Anil

4000

3000

5000

EmpId

Ename

Salary

1001

Raju

5000

1001

Raju

8000

1001

Raju

10000

1002

Ravi

6000

1002

Ravi

7000

1002

Ravi

11000

1003

Anil

4000

1003

Anil

3000

1003

Anil

5000

Target Data:

Sample mapping:
1. Connect and Open the folder if not already opened.
2. Select Tools --> Mapping Designer

3. Select Mappings --> Create

It will pop-up "Mapping Name". Enter the mapping name of your choice" and Click
on 'OK'. Example: m_emp_salaries

4. Drag the Source and Target definitions into workspace if they are already exist. If
not click here to know how to create or import Table definitions.

5. Select 'Transformation' from Menu --> Create

a) That will appear you 'Select the transformation type to create:'

b) Select 'Normalizer' from drop down and 'Enter a new name for this
transformation:' as "nrm_salaries"

c) Click 'Create' and 'Done'

OR

a) Click on Normalizer Transformation icon marked below in below snapshot.

b) Click in the workspace in Mapping Designer.

c) Select NRMTRANS in workspace and Right Click --> Edit.

d) In Transformation tab --> Click on 'Rename' highlighted above which will pop-up
'Rename Transformation'. Enter the Transformation Name: "nrm_salaries"
e) Click on 'OK'
f) Click on 'Apply' and 'OK'.

Note: We cannot drag any port into Normalizer transformation. We have to create
port and defined datatypes, length.

6). Select 'nrm_salaries' Normalizer transformation in workspace and Right Click -->
Edit.
a) Go to 'Normalizer' tab, to create ports

b) Now, defined the 'SALARY' occurrence as 3. Which tells Informatica who many
sequence columns need to loop for the other columns.

c) Now, go to the tab Port and see, we got 3 ports for salary.

d) Go to the Properties tab

Reset: At the end of a session, resets the value sequence for each generated key
value to the value it was before the session
Restart: Starts the generated key sequence at 1. Each time you run a session, the
key sequence value starts at 1 and overrides the sequence value on the Ports tab.
e) Click 'Apply' and Click 'OK.

7) Drag required ports from 'SQ_emp_salaries' Source Qualifier to 'nrm_salaries'

Normalizer Transformation then 'employee_salaries' target.

8) Select 'Mapping' from Menu --> Validate.

9) Select 'Repository' from Menu --> Save

INFORMATICA SCENARIOS
Convert single row from source to three rows in target
Scenario1:
We have a source table containing 3 columns : Col1, Col2 and Col3. There is only 1 row
in the table as follows:

Col1

Col2

Col3

There is target table containg only 1 column Col. Design a mapping so that the target
table contains 3 rows as follows:

Col
a
b
c
Without using normaliser transformation.
Solution:

Create 3 expression transformations exp_1,exp_2 and exp_3 with 1 port

each. Connect col1 from Source Qualifier to port in exp_1.Connect col2 from Source
Qualifier to port in exp_2.Connect col3 from source qualifier to port in exp_3. Make 3
instances of the target. Connect port from exp_1 to target_1. Connect port from exp_2
to target_2 and connect port from exp_3 to target_3.

Split the non-key columns to separate tables with key column in both
Scenario 2:
Split the non-key columns to separate tables with key column in both / How to split the
data of source table column-wise with respect to primary key. See the source and target
tables below.
source table: ID is the key column, Name and Phone No are non-key columns

ID

Name

Phone No

10

AAA

123

20

BBB

234

30

CCC

434

40

DDD

343

50

EEE

442

Target Table 1

ID

Name

10

AAA

20

BBB

30

CCC

40

DDD

50

EEE

Target Table 2

ID

Phone No

10

123

20

234

30

434

40

343

50

442

Solution:
Step 1: Source qualifier: get the source table to the mapping area. See image below.

Step 2: Drag all the port from (from the previous step) to the Aggregator transformation and group
by the key column. Since we have to split the columns to two different tables with the key column in
each, so we are going use two expression transformation, each will take the key column and one nonkey column. Connect aggregator transformation with each of the expression transformation as
follows.

Step 3: We need another set of aggregator to be associated with each of the expression
tranformation from the previous step.
Step 4: In the final step connect the aggregators with the two target tables as follows.

Here is the iconic view of the entire mapping.

Separating duplicate and non-duplicate rows to separate tables

Scenario 3:
How to segregate the duplicate and distinct rows from source table to separate target
tables?
source table:

COL1

COL2

COL3

Target Table 1: Table containing all the unique rows

COL1

COL2

COL3

Target Table 2: Table containing all the duplicate rows

COL1

COL2

COL3

Solution:
Step 1: Drag the source to mapping and connect it to an aggregator transformation.

Step 2: In aggregator transformation, group by the key column and add a new port call it count_rec
to count the key column.
Step 3: connect a router to the aggregator from the previous step.In router make two groups one
named
"original"
and
another
as
"duplicate"
In original write count_rec=1 and in duplicate write count_rec>1.

The picture below depicting group name and the filter conditions

Step 4: Connect two group to corresponding target table.

Retrieving first and last record from a table/file

Scenario 4:
How to get first and last record from a table/file?
Solution:
Step 1: Drag and drop ports from source qualifier to two rank transformations.

Step 2: Create a reusable sequence generator having start value 1 and connect the next
value to both rank transformations.

Step 3: Set rank properties as follows

In Rank1

In Rank2

Step 4: Make two instances of the target.

Step 5: Connect the output port to target.

Sending first half record to target

Scenario 6: How to send first half record to target?

Solution:
Step:1

Drag

and

drop

the

source

to

SRC TO TARGET MAPPING

Step:2 In source-Qualifier , go to property and write the SQL query like

1.select * from emp where rownum <= ( select count(*)/2 fromemp)

mapping.

SRC QUALIFIER SQL QUERY

Step:3 Then connect to target.

Now you are ready to run the mapping to see it in action.

Sending second half record to target

Scenario 8: How to send second half record to target?
Solution
Step 1: Drag and drop the source to mapping.

SRC TO TGT MAPPING

Step 2: In source-Qualifier , go to propery and write the SQL query like

1.select * from emp minus select * from emp where rownum <=
( select count(*)/2 from emp))

SRC QUALIFIER SQL QUERY

Step:3 Then connect to target, and run mapping to see the results.

Sending alternate record to target

Scenario
9:
How
to
send
alternate
record
to
target?
Or
Sending Odd numbered records to one target and even numbered records to another
target.
Solution:
Step 1: Drag the source and connect to an expression transformation.
Step2: Add the next value of a sequence generator to expression transformation.

SCR TO SEQ MAPPING

Step 3: In expression transformation make two port, one is "odd" and another "even".
And Write the expression like below

EXPRESSION PROPERTY

Step 4: Connect a router transformation to expression.

Make two group in router.
And give condition Like below

RTR PROPERTY

Step 5: Then send the two group to different targets.

The entire mapping is as below

FINAL MAPPING VIEW SCENARIO 9

Separate the original records in target

Scenario 10: How to separate the original records from source table to separate
target table by using rank transformation ?
Source Table
col1

col2

col3

Col1

Col2

Col3

Target Table

Solution:
Step 1: Bring the source to

SRC TO RANK MAPPING

Step 2: Connect the rank to source.

Step 3: In rank, set the property like this.

mapping.

RANK PROPERTY

Step 4: Then send it to target.

Run the session to see the result.

Get top 5 records to target without using rank

Scenario 12: How to get top 5 records to target without using rank ?
Solution:
1.

Drag the source to mapping and connect it to sorter transformation.

2.

Arrange the salary in descending order in sorter as follows and send the record to
expression.

SORTER PROPERTIES

3.

Add the next value of sequence generator to expression.(start the value from 1 in
sequence generator).

SORTER TO EXP MAPPING

4.

Connect the expression transformation to a filter or router. In the property set the
condition as follows-

5.

Finally connect to the target.

FINAL MAPPING SC12

Concatenation of duplicate value by comma separation

Scenario: You have two columns in source table T1, in which the col2 may contain
duplicate values.All the duplicate values in col2 of
separated in the column col2 of target table T2.
Source Table: T1
Col1

Col2

b
col1

n
col2

x,m

y,n

Target Table: T2

will be transformed as comma

col1

col2

Solution:
1.

We

have

to

use

the

following

transformation

as

below.

First connect a sorter transformation to source and make col1 as key and its order is
ascending.

After

that

connect

it

to

an

expression

transformation.

2.

In Expression make four new port and give them name as in picture below.

3.

In concat_val write expression like as describe bellow and send it to an

aggregator

4.

In

aggregator

group

5.

Finally run the session.

it

by

col1

and

send

it

to

target

Target table rows , with each row as sum of all previous rows from
source table.
Scenario: How to produce rows in target table with every row as sum of all previous
rows in source table ? See the source and target table to understand the scenario.

SOURCE TABLE
id

Sal

200

300

500

560

TARGET TABLE
Id

Sal

200

500

1000

1560

1.

Pull

the

source

to

mapping

and

then

connect

it

to

expression.

2.

In expression add one column and make it output(sal1) and sal port as input only.
We will make use of a function named cume() to solve our problem, rather using
any complex mapping. Write the expression in sal1 as cume(sal) and send the

output

rows

to

target.

finally run the session...

Produce files as target with dynamic names

Scenario:How to generate file name dynamically with name of sys date ?

Solution:
1.

Drag your target file to target designer and add a column as show on the picture.
Its not a normal column .click on the add file name to the table property. (I have

given

2.

red

mark

there)

Then drag your source to mapping area and connect it to an expression

transformation.

3.

In expression transformation add a new port as string data type and make it
output

4.

port.

In that output port write the condition like describe as bellow and then map it in
to filename port of target. Also send other ports to target. Finally run the session.
You will find two file one with sys date and other one is .out file which one you can
delete.

5.

Validating all mapping in repository

Scenario:How validate all mapping in repository ?

Solution:
1.

In repository go to menu tool then queries. Query Browser dialog box will
appear.Then

click

on

new

button.

2.

In Query Editor, choose folder name and object type as I have shown in the
picture.

3.

After that, execute it (by clicking the blue arrow button).

4.

Query results window will appear. You select single mapping (by selecting single
one) or whole mapping (by pressing Ctrl + A) and go to "tools" then "validate"

option

to

validate

it.

Using mapping parameter and variable in mapping

Scenario:How to use mapping parameter and variable in mapping ?
Solution:
1.

Go to mapping then parameter and variable tab in the Informatica designer.Give

name as $$v1, type choose parameter (You can also choose variable), data type as

integer

2.

and

give

initial

value

as

20.

Create a mapping as shown in the figure( I have considered a simple scenario

where

particular

department

id

will

be

filtered

to

the

target).

3.

In filter set deptno=$$v1 (that means only dept no 20 record will go to the
target.)

4.

Mapping parameter value cant change throughout the session but variable can
be changed. We can change variable value by using text file. Ill show it in next
scenario.

In the last blog , we learnt about the Aggregator transformation in Informatica , steps to
create it , configuring the port and properties. We also discussed the business scenario of
Aggregator Transformation in Informatica. Now this is the time to apply Aggregator
Transformation in a sample Informatica mapping. Its a very simple but detailed example of
Aggregator Transformation.

Problem Statement :
Create a mapping to populate min , miaximum salary , average and sum of salary for each
department based on the employee data with the help of Aggregator Transformation.
Source Data:
EMP Table Data:
EMPNO
ENAME

JOB

MGR

SAL

COMM

DEPT

1JOHNSON

ADMIN

18000

2HARDING

MANAGE
R

52000

300

3TAFT

SALES I

25000

500

4HOOVER

SALES I

27000

5LINCOLN

TECH

22500

6GARFIELD

MANAGE
R

54000

7POLK

TECH

25000

8GRANT

ENGINEE
R

10

32000

9JACKSON

CEO

75000

3
1400

10FILLMORE

MANAGE
R

56000

11ADAMS

ENGINEE
R

10

34000

18000

10

30000

WASHINGTO

12N

ADMIN

13MONROE

ENGINEE
R

14ROOSEVELT CPA

35000

Target Data:
EMP_RES Data:
EMPNO
ENAME

DEPT

COUNT MIN_SAL MAX_SALAVG_SAL SUM_SAL

13MONROE

30000

56000

38000

152000

4HOOVER

25000

52000 34666.67

104000

12WASHINGTON

18000

75000 35416.67

212500

14ROOSEVELT

35000

35000

35000

35000

Sample Data for above problem can be get from here

Solution:
Below are the steps to create full mapping.

Create a new mapping m_Aggregator_example by Go to toolbar -> click

mapping-> Create

Drag Source (EMP) and Target (EMP_RES) to the mapping.

Add Aggregator Transformation by Go to Toolbar->click Transformation ->

Create. Select the Aggregator transformation

Aggregator Transformation Step 2

You can also select Transformation by clicking function button on Informatica

Designer

Enter the name aggr_emp_Salary and click Done.

Agreegator Transformation Step-2.2

Drag input port from EMPNO,ENAME, SAL, DEPTNO from SQ_EMP (Source
Qualifier ) to aggr_emp_Salary

Also add additional below output port (by Clicking on Create port button)
o

COUNT

MIN_SAL

MAX_SAL

AVG_SAL

SUM_SAL

Check the Group By option for the DEPTNO port.

Aggregator Transformation Step 4

Edit the expression for AVG_SAL ( by clicking on expression editor ) and add
below expression

AVG(SAL)

Aggregator Transformation Step 5

Similarly add below expression for other port as well

o

COUNT

= COUNT(SAL)

MIN_SAL = MIN(SAL)

MAX_SAL = COUNT(SAL)

SUM_SAL = SUM(SAL)

Click the Transformation tab and configure transformation properties.

( change Tracing Level as per your need)

Aggregator Transformation Step 6

To enhance the performance of Aggregator , it is recommended to provide

Sorted Data to it (Via SQ query or by adding Sorter Transformation before
it)

In case Sorted Input data is coming to Aggregator, check the Sorted Input
option under the properties Tab.

Now link all required port from aggr_emp_Salary to EMP_RES Target

Definition,

Note: Some extra additional fields like EMPNO , ENAME, (which are not port of aggregation
transformation functionally ) are added just to show that during the execution , final output data
will contain only the last record per group . Such data is not required allthough.

Click on Mapping ( from tool bar) -> then Validate ( to validate the mapping)

Now save the mapping ( by clicking on Repository-> Save or you can also
press Ctrl+S)

Generate the workflow and run it

Over all Mapping:

Full Mapping of Aggregator Transformation (Without Sorter)

Full Mapping of Aggregator Transformation example in Informatica

Full Mapping of Aggregator Transformation (With Sorter Transformation)

Full Mapping of Aggregator Transformation example in Informatica (With Sorted Data)

So, in this article we have gone through step by step example of Aggregator Transformation
in Informatica mapping, learnt the step to add it , configure the port , properties , creating
aggregation ports .
- See more at: http://www.tutorial.tecktricks.com/example-of-aggregatortransformation-in-informatica-example-1/#sthash.fZfDnHoQ.dpuf