Informatica How to Series (Useful Tips)

In this post we will give you few useful how to tips

How to merge two target files in same structure  session/mapping 
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1. Make sure that at the session level both the targets are having the same name.
2. Choose Merge Type as sequential merge for both targets
3. For second target (as per  Target load plan at the designer ), select button "Append if Exists".

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How to Validate validate all mappings in a particular folder  
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Please refer to below link for details
How to validate all-mappings in folder

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How to create target file name with time stamp
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There are there option to achieve this

1. Rename the file in post session command using unix script
2. Create a workflow variable with timestamp 
3. Using Output type as command in session properties

I will explain three methods in detail soon
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