How To Rename Mapping Job In Informatica Cloud

Mappings are where all the magic happens in Informatica Cloud. When I started using it, it took me a while to work out how to rename a mapping job. Since then, a few people asked me the same question. So, I decided to write about it. This is probably the shortest entry in my blog. But, I think it is worthwhile to document it.

When you click the existing mapping job, you will first see the Properties with Name. Once you retype the name in the field, you need to press ENTER before you save it.

Yeah, that’s it. You just need to press ENTER. Otherwise, the name won’t change.

Short and easy, but important.

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Running Jobs with Informatica Cloud REST API

Informatica Cloud offers REST API for us to interact with the platform programmatically. At this point in time, the latest official reference is found here. In this post, we are going to use Python to trigger jobs through API. Triggering a job is a 2-step process. We need to authenticate …

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Tips and Troubleshooting For Uploading CSV to Database In Talend

There will be time when you want to upload a big csv file (with many rows and hundreds of columns) to a relational database table. Talend Open Studio is an open source ETL tool that I use regularly to do odd jobs like that. I like using it because it …

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Informatica Cloud: How To Optimise Joiner Performance In Mapping Designer

Joiner is the stage to join tables in Informatica Cloud (see a quick introduction for Joiner Transformation here). If you have a large volume of data, the joiner transformation becomes very slow without performance optimisation. In this post, we will show you a few tricks that you can use to …