Control-M for Informatica CS

Informatica Cloud Services (CS) enables you to integrate and synchronize data, applications, and processes that reside on-premises or in the cloud.

Control-M for Informatica CS enables you to do the following:

  • Execute any of the following Informatica CS job tasks:

    • Mapping

    • Masking

    • PowerCenter

    • Replication

    • Synchronization

    • Linear Taskflow

    • Taskflow

    • Process

  • Manage Informatica CS credentials in a secure connection profile.

  • Connect to any Informatica CS endpoint.

  • Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Informatica CS, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, resource pools, lock resources, and variables.

  • Integrate Informatica CS jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.

  • Monitor the status, results, and output of Informatica CS jobs.

  • Attach an SLA job to the Informatica CS jobs.

  • Run 100 Informatica CS jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Control-M for Informatica CS Compatibility

The following table lists the prerequisites that are required to use the Informatica CS plug-in, each with its minimum required version.

Component

Version

Control-M/EM

9.0.22.000

Control-M/Agent

9.0.22.000

Control-M Application Integrator

9.0.22.000

Control-M Automation API

9.0.22.000

Control-M for Informatica CS is supported on Control-M Web and Control-M Automation API, but not on the Control-M client. You cannot use Promotion with the plug-in.

To download the installation files for each prerequisite, see Obtaining Control-M Installation Files.

Setting up Control-M for Informatica CS

This procedure describes how to deploy the Informatica CS plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Informatica CS job in Control-M Web and Automation API.

Integration plug-ins released by BMC require an Application Integrator installation. However, these plug-ins are not editable and you cannot import them into Application Integrator. To deploy these integrations to your Control-M environment, import them directly into Control-M with Control-M Automation API.

Before You Begin

Begin

  1. Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.

  2. Download the Informatica CS plug-in from the Control-M for Informatica CS download page in the EPD site.

  3. Do the following to install the Informatica CS plug-in:

    • (9.0.21 or higher) Do the following to run the Control-M Automation API provision service:

      1. Log in as an administrator to the Control-M/EM server host and save the downloaded ZIP file to the following location:

        • Linux: $HOME/ctm_em/AUTO_DEPLOY

        • Windows: <EM_HOME>\AUTO_DEPLOY

      2. Log in to the account where Control-M/Agent is installed and run the following provision image command:

        • Linux: ctm provision image ICS_plugin.Linux

        • Windows: ctm provision image ICS_plugin.Windows

    • (9.0.20.200 or lower) Run the Control-M Automation API deploy service, as described in deploy jobtype.

  4. Create an Informatica CS connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:

  5. Define an Informatica CS job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:

To remove this plug-in from an Agent, see Removing a Plug-in from the Agent. The plug-in ID is ICS032022.

Change Log

The following table provides details about changes that were introduced in new versions of this plug-in:

Plug-in Version

Details

1.0.11

Added capability that automatically selects Rerun Suspended Taskflow and copies the Run ID from the failed job to the Rerun Run ID field when a job enters Suspended status.

1.0.10

Added resolve on rerun capabilities to the Input Field parameter.

Control-M variables can be utilized as values in the relevant job properties.

1.0.09

Added Process to the Task Type job parameter

1.0.08

  • Added new Restart on Rerun parameter to the job definition to rerun a job (pipeline) from the point of failure

  • Added HTTP Codes, Rerun Interval, and Attempt Reruns parameters to the connection profile to rerun an execution step with an HTTP code

  • Changed Input Fields to resolved

1.0.07

Fixed kill a mapping task from a Control-M job

1.0.06

  • Added an option to kill a taskflow and mapping task from a Control-M job

  • If a job is in Suspend, Control-M will fail on run and re-run executions

1.0.05

Added Taskflow Job Namefield to job details

1.0.04

Added Connection timeout to centralized connection profile

1.0.00

Initial version