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
• Manage Informatica CS credentials in a secure connection profile.
• Connect to any Informatica CS endpoint.
• Integrate Informatica CS workflows with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Monitor the status, results, and output of Informatica CS jobs in the Monitoring domain.
• Attach an SLA job to your Informatica CS jobs.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Informatica CS including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
• Run 50 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	9.0.21.200
Control-M/Agent	9.0.21.200
Control-M Application Integrator	9.0.21.200
Control-M Automation API	9.0.20.235

Control-M for Informatica CS is supported on Control-M Web and Control-M Automation API, but not on Control-M client.

To download the required 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.

Before You Begin

Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Automation API Installation.

Begin

1. Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.
2. Download the Informatica CS plug-in f rom the Control-M for Informatica CS download page in the EPD site.
3. Install the Informatica CS plug-in via one of the following methods:
   • (9.0.21 or higher) Use the Automation API Provision service:
     1. Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
        • Linux: $HOME/ctm_em/AUTO_DEPLOY
        • Windows: <EM_HOME>\AUTO_DEPLOY
     2. Log in to the Control-M/Agent machine and run the provision image command, as follows:
        • Linux: ctm provision image ICS_plugin.Linux
        • Windows: ctm provision image ICS_plugin.Windows
   • (9.0.20.200 or lower) Use the 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:
   • Web: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Informatica Cloud Services Connection Profile Parameters
   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Informatica CS
5. Define an Informatica CS job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
   • Web: Creating a Job with Informatica CS Job parameters
   • Automation API: Job:Informatica CS

Change Log

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

Plug-in Version	Details
1.0.04	New Connection Timeout field in the connection profile details.
1.0.05	New Taskflow Job Name field in Job details.
1.0.06	New option to kill any of the various types of Informatica CS job tasks from the Control-M job The following issue is fixed: Control-M job runs indefinitely without completing when the Informatica CS job is in Suspend status.  To resolve this issue, the Control-M job now fails, in both an initial run and a rerun execution.