Chapter 4. Finishing the Development – Using the Workflow Manager Screen Basics

In the previous chapters, we discussed the Informatica PowerCenter Designer screen in detail. This chapter marks the beginning of another client tool called Workflow Manager. Informatica PowerCenter Workflow Manager lets you execute the Informatica code. By now, you must be clear that we create a skeleton of the data flow in the mapping that contains the source for the target flow. Workflow Manager allows us to execute the mapping; in other words, we actually make the data flow from the source to the target when we execute the process called workflow in Workflow Manager.

Basically, Workflow Manager contains a set of instructions, which we define as a workflow. The basic building block of workflow is tasks. As we have multiple transformations in designer screen, we have multiple tasks in Workflow Manager screen. When you create a workflow, you add tasks to it as per your requirement and execute the workflow to see the status in the monitor.