Installing and Setting Up Informatica PowerCenter
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Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Installation Guide for Informatica PowerCenter Users
For detailed information about creating a Repository Service, refer to the Informatica
documentation.
To create the Informatica Repository Service
1.
Open Informatica Administrator.
For more information about logging into Informatica Administrator, see
Section A.8, "How to Log Into Informatica Administrator."
2.
In the Domain Navigator, select the root Domain, then click Actions, then New,
then PowerCenter Repository Service, to display the New PowerCenter
Repository Service wizard.
3.
Use the 'Specify the properties for this new PowerCenter Repository Service'
dialog to specify a Name (for example, BIA_RS), Location, License, and Node,
then click Next.
4.
Use the 'Specify the database properties for this new PowerCenter Repository
Service' dialog to specify a Database Type, Username, Password, Connection
String, and Code Page.
Notes
:
The Username and Password are for the database account that you created for
the Informatica repository (see Section
Section 4.4.1, "Create Databases for
Oracle BI Applications and Informatica PowerCenter Components."
).
If you specify the wrong code page, you cannot correct this later. If the code
page is incorrect, then you must create a new Repository Service.
5.
In the 'Specify the creation options for the new PowerCenter Repository Service'
area, select the No content exists under specified connection string. Create new
content.
radio button.
For detailed information about creating a Repository Service, refer to the
Informatica documentation.
6.
Click Finish.
In the example screen shot below, Domain_79456 contains a PowerCenter Repository
Service named BIA_RS.
Note:
Before you log into Informatica Administrator, make sure that
the Informatica service is running. To start the Informatica Service, use
the Start Informatica Services program.
On Windows, you can also use the Windows Services dialog to start
the 'Informatica 9.0.1' service. On UNIX, use the infaservice [startup |
shutdown] command.