When you create a mapping, you
must add one or more source definitions to it. When you drag a source into the
Mapping Designer workspace, you add an instance of the source definition to the
mapping. The Mapping Designer displays source instances in read-only mode.
Every mapping requires at least one transformation object that determines how
the Informatica Server reads the source data:
- Source Qualifier transformation. Represents data read from relational and flat file sources.
- Normalizer transformation. Represents data read from COBOL sources.
- ERP Source Qualifier transformation. Represents data read from ERP sources.
- XML Source Qualifier transformation. Represents data read from XML sources.
You can let the Designer create
the Source Qualifier by default, so each time you drag a source into a mapping,
the Designer adds a Source Qualifier and connects it to the source. Use the
automatic Source Qualifier creation when you want to create one Source
Qualifier or Normalizer for each source in your mapping. You can disable the
automatic creation when you want to join data from different relational
sources. You can then manually create and connect it to the source. When you
edit the source in the Source Analyzer, all instances of the source in mappings
inherit the changes. Some changes might invalidate the mappings using the
source. When you add a source definition with the slash character (/) in the
table name to mapping, the Designer replaces the slash character with an
underscore character in the source instance name for the mapping.
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