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Monitor
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services web site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Communities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Marketplace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Data Integration connector documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Informatica Knowledge Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 1: Monitoring jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Monitoring all jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Monitoring running jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Monitoring your jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Monitoring subtasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Job properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Customizing the jobs pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Viewing details for a specific job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 2: Monitoring Data Integration jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Monitoring mappings and mapping tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Job properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Job results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Individual source and target results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Parameter details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sequence generator details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Pushdown optimization details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Monitoring data loader tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Job properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Job results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Individual job results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Monitoring data transfer tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Job properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Job results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Individual source and target results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Monitoring taskflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Start step properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Data Task properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Notification Task properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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 Command Task step properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Subtaskflow step properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Throw step properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
End step properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Stopping and restarting mapping and task instances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Stopping, suspending, resuming, and restarting taskflow instances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Running a taskflow instance from a step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Updating variables to run a taskflow instance from a step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 3: Data Integration job log files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Downloading a session log file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Preface
Use Monitor to learn how to view and monitor jobs, imports, and exports that are running or have run in your
organization. Monitor also contains information about downloading log files to troubleshoot errors.

Informatica Resources
Informatica provides you with a range of product resources through the Informatica Network and other online
portals. Use the resources to get the most from your Informatica products and solutions and to learn from
other Informatica users and subject matter experts.

Informatica Documentation
Use the Informatica Documentation Portal to explore an extensive library of documentation for current and
recent product releases. To explore the Documentation Portal, visit https://docs.informatica.com.

If you have questions, comments, or ideas about the product documentation, contact the Informatica
Documentation team at [email protected].

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services web site

You can access the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services web site at http://www.informatica.com/cloud.
This site contains information about Informatica Cloud integration services.

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Communities

Use the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Community to discuss and resolve technical issues. You can
also find technical tips, documentation updates, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Access the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Community at:

https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration

Developers can learn more and share tips at the Cloud Developer community:

https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/cloud-
developers

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Marketplace

Visit the Informatica Marketplace to try and buy Data Integration Connectors, templates, and mapplets:

https://marketplace.informatica.com/

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 Data Integration connector documentation
You can access documentation for Data Integration Connectors at the Documentation Portal. To explore the
Documentation Portal, visit https://docs.informatica.com.

Informatica Knowledge Base

Use the Informatica Knowledge Base to find product resources such as how-to articles, best practices, video
tutorials, and answers to frequently asked questions.

To search the Knowledge Base, visit https://search.informatica.com. If you have questions, comments, or
ideas about the Knowledge Base, contact the Informatica Knowledge Base team at
[email protected].

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center

The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center provides information about Informatica security
policies and real-time system availability.

You can access the trust center at https://www.informatica.com/trust-center.html.

Subscribe to the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center to receive upgrade, maintenance, and
incident notifications. The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Status page displays the production status
of all the Informatica cloud products. All maintenance updates are posted to this page, and during an outage,
it will have the most current information. To ensure you are notified of updates and outages, you can
subscribe to receive updates for a single component or all Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
components. Subscribing to all components is the best way to be certain you never miss an update.

To subscribe, go to https://status.informatica.com/ and click SUBSCRIBE TO UPDATES. You can then

choose to receive notifications sent as emails, SMS text messages, webhooks, RSS feeds, or any
combination of the four.

Informatica Global Customer Support

You can contact a Customer Support Center by telephone or online.

For online support, click Submit Support Request in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. You can also use
Online Support to log a case. Online Support requires a login. You can request a login at
https://network.informatica.com/welcome.

The telephone numbers for Informatica Global Customer Support are available from the Informatica web site
at https://www.informatica.com/services-and-training/support-services/contact-us.html.

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Chapter 1

Monitoring jobs
You can monitor the jobs that are running or have run in your organization. A job is an instance of an asset
such as a Data Integration mapping, task, or taskflow. Each time that you start the mapping, task, or taskflow,
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services creates a job to run it.

You can monitor jobs on the following pages:

All Jobs page

Lists all jobs that are running or that have run in your organization. For most job types, you can stop and
restart the job on this page. You can also download log files for some job types.

To open the All Jobs page, in Monitor, select All Jobs.

Running Jobs page

Lists all jobs that are running or have completed within the last five minutes. For most job types, you can
stop and restart the job on this page. You can also download log files for some job types.

To open the Running Jobs page, in Monitor, select Running Jobs.

My Jobs page

Lists all jobs that were started by the currently logged in user. For most job types, you can stop and
restart the job on this page. You can also download log files for some job types.

To open the My Jobs page, in Data Integration, select My Jobs.

Job details page

Displays detailed information about a specific job. You can view details for jobs that have completed or
failed. For most job types, you can restart the job from this page. You can also download log files for
some job types.

To view the details for a job, click the job name on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page.

Monitoring all jobs

You can monitor all jobs in your organization on the All Jobs page in Monitor. The All Jobs page lists the jobs
that are currently running and the jobs that have completed.

Use the All Jobs page for failure analysis and debugging of the jobs in your organization.

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 The following image shows the All Jobs page:

1. Status message that indicates whether information on the page is up-to-date or needs to be refreshed
2. Refresh icon

The All Jobs page lists the jobs that were run within the last three days, plus the 1000 most recent jobs that
are more than three days old.

To ensure that the information on this page is current, Monitor polls the Informatica Intelligent Cloud
Services repository every five seconds. Information can become out-of-date when a job status changes or
when a user starts a job.

The status message at the top of the page indicates whether the information on the page is up-to-date. If the
information is out-of-date, the status message displays "Updates Available." To refresh the page, click the
"Updates Available" message or the Refresh icon.

When a job completes, you can drill down on the job to view the job details. To drill down on a job, click the
instance name.

Monitoring running jobs

You can monitor all running jobs on the Running Jobs page in Monitor. The Running Jobs page lists the jobs
that are starting, queued, running, and suspended. The page also lists the jobs that have completed within the
last five minutes.

Use the Running Jobs page for live monitoring of the jobs that are running in your organization. When you
view running jobs, job properties such as end time, rows processed, and status are continuously updated.

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The following image shows the Running Jobs page:

If your organization is running more than 200 jobs, the jobs are listed on multiple pages.

When a job completes, you can drill down on the job to view the job details. To drill down on a job, click the
instance name.

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Monitoring your jobs
You can monitor the jobs that you started on the My Jobs page in Data Integration. The My Jobs page lists
your jobs that are currently running and your jobs that have completed.

The following image shows the My Jobs page in Data Integration:

1. Status message that indicates whether information on the page is up-to-date or needs to be refreshed.
2. Refresh icon

The My Jobs page lists the jobs that you ran within the last three days, plus your 1000 most recent jobs that
are more than three days old.

To ensure that the information on this page is current, Monitor polls the Informatica Intelligent Cloud
Services repository every five seconds. Information can become out-of-date when a job status changes or
when a user starts a job.

The status message at the top of the page indicates whether the information on the page is up-to-date. If the
information is out-of-date, the status message displays "Updates Available." To refresh the page, click the
"Updates Available" message or the Refresh icon.

When a job completes, you can drill down on the job to view the job details. To drill down on a job, click the
instance name.

Monitoring subtasks
When you monitor a task instance that contains subtasks, you can also monitor the subtasks. When you
monitor a taskflow instance that contains subtasks or subtaskflows, you can also monitor the subtasks and

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subtaskflows. You can monitor a subtask or subtaskflow from the All Jobs or Running Jobs page in Monitor
or from the My Jobs page in Data Integration.

To monitor subtasks or subtaskflows, open the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page, and then click the
number of subtasks in the Subtasks column. For taskflows, you can also click View Subtasks in the Rows
Processed column.

The following types of assets have subtasks:

• Data loader tasks

• Taskflows
The following image shows the My Jobs page in Data Integration when you view subtasks for a data loader
task:

1. Click the service name to close the subtasks view.

To close the subtasks view and return to the My Jobs page, click the service name in the menu at the top of
the page. For example, to close the subtasks view for a data loader task, click Data Integration in the menu at
the top of the page to the left of the parent task or taskflow instance name.

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Job properties
The All Jobs, Running Jobs, and My Jobs pages display the job properties such as the name, start time, and
status. You can right-click the column heading area to display or hide specific properties.

The following image shows the default properties that are displayed for mapping, task, and taskflow
instances on the All Jobs page in Data Integration:

Each Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services job is named <asset name>-<instance number>. For example,
the first time you run mapping m_LoadCustOrders, the job is named m_LoadCustOrders-1. The second time
you run the mapping, the job is named m_LoadCustOrders-2.

By default, the following properties are displayed for each job:

Property Description

Instance Name of the job in the following format:

Name <asset name>-<instance number>
For completed and failed jobs, you can click the instance name to view detailed information about
the job.

Location Project and folder path where the asset exists.

Subtasks Displays the number of subtasks, when applicable. To view job properties for the subtasks, click the
entry in this column.

Start Time Date and time that the job was started.

End Time Date and time that the job completed or stopped. Does not apply to running jobs.

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 Property Description

Rows Total number of rows that the job has currently processed. This value includes the number of rows
Processed successfully written to the target as well as the number of error rows for each source, target, and
transformation in the task.
If the job you are viewing is a taskflow instance, this field displays View Subtasks. Click View
Subtasks to monitor the subtasks and subtaskflows for the taskflow. If the taskflow contains nested
subtasks and subtaskflows, this field displays View Subtasks to view the nested subtasks and
subtaskflows.

Status Job status. A job can have one of the following statuses:
- Queued. The job is queued on a Secure Agent, but it has not started yet. Applies to taskflow
instances.
- Starting. The job is starting.
- Running. The job is still running.
- Success. The job completed successfully.
- Stopping. The job is stopping. Applies to tasks that are stopped cleanly.
- Suspended. The job is paused. Applies to taskflow instances.
- Warning. The job completed with errors. Applies to mapping and task instances.
- Failed. The job did not complete because it encountered errors or the user has stopped the
execution.
Tip: If the job status is Failed, you can hover the cursor over the job status to view and copy the error
message.

You can also display the following additional properties by right-clicking in the column heading area:

Property Description

Asset Name Name of the asset that is associated with the job. For example, if the job is a mapping
instance, this column displays the name of the associated mapping.

Asset Type Type of asset that is associated with the job.

Runtime Environment Runtime environment in which the job ran.

Duration Amount of time the job ran before it completed or was stopped.

Success Rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Failure Rows Number of rows that were not written to the target.

Started By Name of the user or schedule that started the job.

Error Message Error message, if any, that is associated with the job.

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Customizing the jobs pages
You can decide which properties to display on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, and My Jobs pages. You can also
sort and filter jobs, drill down on a job to view detailed information about the job, and view properties for
subtasks.

The following image shows the properties that are displayed by default on the All Jobs page:

1. Column heading area. Right-click this area to add and remove columns.
2. Sort icon
3. Filter icon
4. Find field

You can customize the jobs pages in the following ways:

Display, hide, or rearrange job properties.

To display or hide specific properties, right-click the column heading area and check or uncheck the
properties.

To rearrange the columns, click a column heading and drag it to a different location.

Sort jobs.

To sort the displayed jobs, click the column heading for the property that you want to sort by. For
example, to list the most recently completed jobs first, click the End Time column. The arrow in the
column heading indicates the sort order, either ascending or descending. To reverse the sort order, click
the column heading again.

You can also sort jobs by clicking the Sort icon and selecting the column name.

Find jobs.

To find specific jobs on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, and My Jobs pages, use the find field. You can
search for jobs by entering a full or partial job name or error message in the find field.

Filter jobs.

To filter the jobs that appear on the All Jobs and My Jobs pages, click the Filter icon. Use filters to find
specific jobs. You can specify keywords and partial strings in your filters.

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 To specify a filter, click Add Field, select the property to filter by, and then enter the property value. For
example, to find jobs with names that contain the string "Sales," select "Asset Name" as the filter field,
and enter "Sales" as the value. Or, to find jobs with errors that contain the string "Hosted Agent," select
"Error Message" as the filter field, and enter "Hosted Agent" as the value.

You can specify multiple filters. For example, to find failed mappings, select the following filter fields
and values:

• Asset Type: Mapping

• Status: Failed

The following image shows the All Jobs page with the filters applied:

1. Applied filters
2. Remove Filter icon

To remove all applied filters, click the Remove Filter icon.

Viewing details for a specific job

You can drill down on any job on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page to display detailed information
about the job.

To drill down and view details about a specific job, click the job name.

To view details for jobs with subtasks, open the subtasks view, and click the subtask name.

The details displayed for the job vary based on the job type.

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Chapter 2

Monitoring Data Integration jobs

You can monitor the Data Integration jobs that are running or have run. A job is an instance of a mapping,
task, or taskflow. Each time that you start a mapping, task, or taskflow, Data Integration creates a job to run
it.

You can monitor the following types of Data Integration jobs:

• Mappings
• Mapping data preview jobs
• Mapping tasks
• Data loader tasks
• Data transfer tasks
• Taskflows

Monitoring mappings and mapping tasks

To view detailed information about a specific mapping instance, task instance, or mapping data preview job,
click the job name on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page.

The following image shows the job details for a mapping task:

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 You view different details in each panel, and the details change based on the type of task that you run.

Job properties
The job properties for each mapping instance, task instance, or mapping data preview job display general
properties about the instance.

The job properties include the following properties:

Property Description

Task name Name of the task.

Instance ID Instance number for the task. For example, if you are looking at the third run of the task, this
field displays "3."

Task type Task type, for example mapping task.

Started by Name of the user or schedule that started the job.

Start time Date and time that the job was started.

End time Date and time that the job completed or stopped.

Duration Amount of time the job ran before it completed or was stopped.

Runtime environment Runtime environment in which the job ran.

Secure Agent Secure Agent that ran the job.

Job results
The job results for each mapping instance, task instance, or mapping data preview job display the status of
the job and success and error statistics.

The job results include the following properties:

Property Description

Status Job status. A job can have one of the following statuses:
- Starting. The job is starting.
- Running. The job is still running.
- Success. The job completed successfully.
- Warning. The job completed with errors.
- Failed. The job did not complete because it encountered errors.

Success Rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Errors Total number of source error rows, target error rows, and transformation errors.

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 Property Description

Session Log Allows you to download the session log file. By default, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
stores session logs for 10 runs before it overwrites the logs with the latest runs. If you want to
retain session logs for more than 10 runs, you can configure the Maximum Number of Log Files
property in the task wizard.
Session log files are written to the following directory:
<Secure Agent installation directory>/apps/Data_Integration_Server/logs

Requested Number of serverless compute units per hour that the task requested.
Compute Units You can view the number of requested compute units if the task runs in a serverless runtime
Per Hour environment.

Total Consumed Total number of serverless compute units that the task consumed.
Compute Units You can view the number of consumed compute units if the task runs in a serverless runtime
environment.

Error Message Error message, if any, that is associated with the job.

Individual source and target results

Individual source and target results are displayed for mapping task instances and mapping data preview jobs.
Individual source and target results display details for individual sources and targets.

The individual source and target details include the following properties for each source and target:

Property Description

Name Name of the source transformation or name of the target transformation and the target object.

Success rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Errors Total number of source error rows, target error rows, and transformation errors.

Error message Error message, if any, that is associated with the job.

Actions Actions that you can take regarding the job.

Parameter details
Parameter details are displayed for job instances that contain in-out parameters or connection or object
parameters that were overridden at runtime.

If the job instance includes in-out parameters, the job details display the value for each parameter after the
task has completed.

For mapping task instances that include connection or object parameters that were overridden at runtime, the
job details also display the location of the parameter file and the value of each parameter after the task has
completed.

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 Sequence generator details
Sequence generator details are shown for mapping task and mapping data preview job instances that contain
a Sequence Generator transformation that does not use a shared sequence.

The following table describes the properties shown for each sequence generator:

Property Description

Transformation Name Name of the Sequence Generator transformation.

Next Value Value of the NEXTVAL output field in the Sequence Generator transformation.

Pushdown optimization details

Pushdown optimization details are shown for mapping task instances where the task is configured for
pushdown optimization.

Expand the Pushdown Optimization area to view pushdown details.

The Pushdown Optimization area displays the pushdown type configured in the task and the type of
pushdown the task executed. The area also displays the SQL queries pushed to the source or target, along
with any errors.

Monitoring data loader tasks

To view detailed information about a specific data loader task, click the instance name on the My Jobs, All
Jobs, or Running Jobs pages.

Job properties
The job properties for each data loader task include general properties about the task.

The job properties include the following properties:

Properties Description

Task Name Name of the task.

Instance ID Instance number for the task. For example, if you are looking at the third run of the task, this field
displays "3."

Task Type Task type, for example, data loader task.

Started By Name of the user or schedule that started the job.

Start Time Date and time that the job was started.

End Time Date and time that the job completed or stopped.

Duration Amount of time the job ran before it completed or was stopped.

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 Job results
The job results for each data loader task display the status of the job and success and error statistics.

The job results include the following properties:

Property Description

Status Job status. A job can have one of the following statuses:
- Starting. The job is starting.
- Running. The job is still running.
- Success. The job completed successfully.
- Warning. The job completed with errors.
- Failed. The job did not complete because it encountered errors.

Success Rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Error Rows Total number of source and target error rows.

Individual job results

Individual job results display details for individual sources.

The individual source details include the following properties for each source:

Property Description

Object Name Name of the source object.

End time Date and time that the individual job completed or stopped.

Status Individual job status. A job can have one of the following statuses:
- Starting. The job is starting.
- Running. The job is still running.
- Success. The job completed successfully.
- Warning. The job completed with errors.
- Failed. The job did not complete because it encountered errors.

Success Rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Error Rows Total number of source error rows or target error rows.

Error Message Error message, if any, that is associated with the job.

Monitoring data transfer tasks

To view detailed information about a specific data transfer task, click the instance name on the My Jobs, All
Jobs, or Running Jobs pages.

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Job properties
The job properties for each data transfer task include general properties about the task.

The job properties include the following properties:

Properties Description

Task Name Name of the task.

Instance ID Instance number for the task. For example, if you are looking at the third run of the task, this
field displays "3."

Task Type Task type, for example, data transfer task.

Started By Name of the user or schedule that started the job.

Start Time Date and time that the job was started.

End Time Date and time that the job completed or stopped.

Duration Amount of time the job ran before it completed or was stopped.

Runtime Environment Runtime environment in which the job ran.

Secure Agent Secure Agent that ran the job.

Context Name Name of the task that is associated with the job.

Job results
The job results for each data transfer task display the status of the job and success and error statistics.

The job results include the following properties:

Property Description

Status Job status. A job can have one of the following statuses:
- Starting. The job is starting.
- Running. The job is still running.
- Success. The job completed successfully.
- Warning. The job completed with errors.
- Failed. The job did not complete because it encountered errors.

Success Rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Errors Total number of source error rows, target error rows, and transformation errors.

Session Log Allows you to download the session log file. By default, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services stores
session logs for 10 runs before it overwrites the logs with the latest runs. If you want to retain
session logs for more than 10 runs, you can configure the Maximum Number of Log Files property in
the task wizard.

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 Individual source and target results
Individual source and target results display details for individual sources and targets.

The individual source and target details include the following properties for each source and target:

Property Description

Name Name of the source or target object.

Success rows Number of rows successfully written to the target.

Errors Total number of source error rows or target error rows.

Error Message Error message, if any, that is associated with the job.

Monitoring taskflows
To view detailed information about a taskflow instance, click the job name on the My Jobs page.

The following image shows the job details for a taskflow instance:

1. Log panel. A chronological list of the activities that the taskflow has run.
2. Design panel. A canvas view of the taskflow.
3. Properties panel. The properties of the taskflow element that you select on the canvas. Click the Start step to view
properties specific to the current taskflow instance. Click a Data Task step to see properties specific to the task.
4. Variable. The input and temp variables used to run the taskflow instance. To update the variables and their
associated values, click the Edit icon next to the Input or Temp variable in the Variable panel.

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Start step properties
The Start step properties display information about the current run of a taskflow.

When you click the Start step, the properties panel displays the following information:

Property Description

Current Run You see the following properties:

- Instance ID. A unique number that identifies the current taskflow instance.
- Status. The state that the taskflow instance is in. Taskflows can be in the Running, Failed, Success or
Suspended states.
- Last Fault Name. The cause for the fault occurrence. This field appears only when the taskflow fails.
- Error. Exception or error message.
- Start Date. The date and time at which the taskflow instance was started.
- End Date. The date and time at which the taskflow instance ended. You see an End Time value if a
taskflow is in the Success or Failed states.
- Duration. The amount of time the taskflow instance ran before it completed. You see a Duration value
if a taskflow is in the Success or Failed states.
- Username. The name of the user who ran this instance of the taskflow.
- Runtime Environment. The runtime environment in which the taskflow ran. You can run taskflows only
in the Cloud environment.

Input Fields Displays the name and value provided as input for the current taskflow instance.

Data Task properties

The Data Task step properties display details about the current run of the data task of a taskflow.

When you click a data task, the properties panel displays the following information:

Property Description

Current Run You see the following properties:

- Status. Indicates the status of the data integration task. A data integration task can be in the 0
(Faulted), 1 (Success), or 2 (Warning) states.
- Error. If the data integration task is in the 0 (Faulted) or 2 (Warning) states, the error message
appears here.
- Start Date. The date and time that the data integration task started.
- End Date. The date and time that the data integration task ended or was suspended.
- Duration. The amount of time the data integration task ran before it completed or was suspended.
- Started By. The name of the taskflow that called the data integration task.
- Username. The name of the user who ran this instance of the taskflow.

General The name and type of the Data Task step.

Data Task You see the following properties:

- Name. The name of the data integration task.
- Type. Specifies the task type.

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 Property Description

Input Fields Properties specific to the data integration task you added to a Data Task step.
You see the following properties:
- Wait for Task to Complete. Indicates if the Data Task step waits for the data integration task to
complete. This value is always Yes.
- Max Wait. The maximum time in seconds that the Data Task step waits for the data integration task
to complete. This value is always 604800 seconds, which is 7 days.
- Task Name. The name of the data integration task.
- GUID. The unique identifying number of the data integration task.
- Task Type. Specifies the task type.
- Has Inout Parameters. Indicates whether the data integration task contains input parameters or
output parameters.

Output You see output field properties if the State of the data integration task is 1 (Success).
Fields Properties specific to the completed data integration task appear here.

Fault If the data integration task faulted, you see the following properties:
- Code. Indicates whether the fault is an error or a warning.
- Reason. Indicates the cause of the error or fault.
- Detail. Provides details about the error or fault.
You see the output field properties when the data integration task status is 3 (Failed) and one of the
following conditions are met:
- The On Error field is set to Ignore or Custom error handling.
- The Fail taskflow on completion option is set to If this task fails.

Notification Task properties

The Notification Task step properties display details about the current run of the Notification Task of a
taskflow.

When you click a Notification Task, the Properties panel displays the following information:

Property Description

General The name of the Notification Task step.

Details Displays the following input fields of the Notification Task:

- Email To. The primary recipients for the email notification.
- Email Cc. The recipients who need to be sent a copy of the email notification.
- Email Bcc. The additional recipients who need to be sent a copy of the email notification. The recipients
in the Email To and Email Cc fields will not be able to see the recipients in the Email Bcc field. If the
field contains more than one recipient, the recipients will not be able to see the other recipients in the
Email Bcc field.
- Email Subject. A short and descriptive subject that introduces the email.
- Email Content Type. The type of formatting that the email content uses.
- Email Body. The content that the email contains.

Command Task step properties

The Command Task step properties display details of the current run of the command task in a taskflow.

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 When you click a command task in the taskflow, the Properties panel displays the following properties:

Property Description

General Displays the name of the command task.

Input Fields Displays the value of the runtime environment, script file name, input arguments, and work directory
that you configure for the command task.

Output Fields Displays the value of the run ID, start and end time, exit code, execution status, and standard error.
The output fields are displayed only if the command task executes successfully.

Fault Displays the error code and reason for the error.

If the Command Task step contains multiple script files, you can view all the scripts in the taskflow instance
as subtasks of the command task from the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page. If a script fails, the
status of the script is set to failed. You can also download the log file to understand the reason for the script
failure.

Subtaskflow step properties

The Subtaskflow step properties display details about the current run of the subtaskflow.

When you click a Subtaskflow step, the Properties panel displays the following information:

Properties Description

Input Fields Displays the input fields that you had configured along with their associated values.

Fault If the subtaskflow step faulted, you see the following properties:
- Code. Indicates whether the fault is an error or a warning.
- Reason. Indicates the cause of the error or fault.
- Detail. Provides details about the error or fault.

Output Fields Displays the output fields of the subtaskflow along with their associated values.

Throw step properties

The Throw step properties display the fault details for the taskflow or the step that is associated with the
Throw step.

If the step preceding the Throw step or the step with which the Throw step is associated faulted, the Fault
field in the Properties panel displays the following details:

• Code. Displays the fault code.

• Reason. Displays the cause of the fault.
• Details. Displays the details about the fault.

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 End step properties
The End step properties display details about the current run of the taskflow.

When you click an End step, the Properties panel displays the following information:

Properties Description

Fault If the End step faulted, you see the following properties:
- Code. Displays the fault code. The code is set to faultDueToNotRunOrFaulted if the subtaskflow
associated with the Subtaskflow step failed or did not run.
- Reason. Indicates the cause of the error or fault.
- Source. Displays the path of the step that faulted

Stopping and restarting mapping and task instances

You can stop and restart mapping and task instances on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page.
Restart a mapping or task instance on the All Jobs or My Jobs page or from the job details.

You can perform the following actions:

Stop a mapping or task instance.

You can stop a mapping or task instance that is starting, running, or queued.

Stop the job using one of the following methods:

• Clean Stop. Gracefully shuts down the DTM process.

• Stop. Forcefully stops the DTM process.

To stop a mapping or task instance, open the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page. Then, click the
Clean Stop icon or the Stop icon in the row that contains the job that you want to stop.

When you click Clean Stop, the job status changes to Stopping. If the job takes too long to stop, click
Stop to stop the job.

Restart a mapping or task instance.

You can restart a mapping or task instance that has run successfully or failed.

To restart a mapping or task instance on the All Jobs or My Jobs page, click the Restart icon in the row
that contains the job that you want to restart.

To restart a mapping or task instance from the job details, click Restart at the top of the page.

Stopping, suspending, resuming, and restarting

taskflow instances
You can stop, suspend, resume, and restart taskflow instances on the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs
page.

You can perform the following actions:

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 Stop a taskflow instance.

You can stop a taskflow instance that is in the suspended or running state.

To stop a taskflow instance, open the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page, and then click the Stop
icon in the row that contains the taskflow instance.

When you stop a parent taskflow, all the underlying subtaskflows that are running also stop. The Last
Fault Name field in the Taskflow Properties > Current Run section of the parent taskflow that you stop
displays the value as processManuallyTerminated. However, the Last Fault Name field of the
subtaskflows displays the value as processTerminated.

Suspend a taskflow instance.

To suspend a taskflow instance, open the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page, and then click the
Suspend icon in the row that contains the taskflow instance.

Resume a taskflow instance from a faulted step.

To resume a suspended taskflow instance from a faulted step, open the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My
Jobs page, and then click the taskflow instance. On the taskflow status page, click the Resume from
faulted step icon. The taskflow resumes from the step that faulted.

If you resume a taskflow that was suspended because of a data integration task fault, the task re-runs.
For information about suspending a taskflow on a data task fault, see Taskflows.

Skip a faulted step and resume a taskflow instance from the next step.

To skip a faulted step and resume a suspended taskflow instance from the next step, open the All Jobs,
Running Jobs, or My Jobs page, and then click the taskflow instance. On the taskflow status page, click
the Skip faulted step and resume icon. The taskflow skips the faulted step and resumes from the next
step. If all the other steps run successfully, the taskflow status is set to success.

Restart a taskflow instance.

You can restart a taskflow that meets the following criteria:

• The taskflow was run at least once.

• The taskflow is in one of the following states:
- Success

- Failed

- Suspended

You can also restart a taskflow instance that has the Binding property set to Event.

To restart a taskflow instance, open the All Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page, and then click the
Restart icon in the row that contains the taskflow instance.

Running a taskflow instance from a step

You can run a taskflow instance from a particular step on the All Jobs page in Monitor or the My Jobs page
in Data Integration.

You can run a taskflow that meets the following criteria:

• The taskflow step was run at least once.

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 • The taskflow is in one of the following states:
- Success

- Failed

- Warning

When you run a taskflow instance from a particular step, if any subsequent step uses input from a previously
executed step, it will have null values. To avoid this problem, update the input and temporary variables before
you run a taskflow instance from a step. For more information about updating variables, see “Updating
variables to run a taskflow instance from a step” on page 29.

The following image shows the Run from here icon to run the taskflow instance from the selected Data Task
step:

To run a taskflow instance from a step, open the All Jobs page in Monitor or My Jobs page in Data
Integration, and then click the taskflow instance. On the taskflow status page, select the step from which you
want to run the taskflow and click the Run from here icon.

The following image shows the taskflow instance after it runs from the Data Task 1:

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 Note: If you run a taskflow from a particular step, and the taskflow has a parent taskflow, the parent taskflow
will not be notified of the status of the taskflow. You can run a taskflow from the steps that ran successfully.
You can also run a taskflow from a failed task such as a Data Task step or Command Task step provided the
error handling for that task is set to ignore on error. You cannot run a taskflow from the Start, End, and Jump
steps.

Updating variables to run a taskflow instance from a step

Use the variables tab to update the input and temporary variables or fields and their associated values to run
a complex taskflow instance from a particular step.

The Variables tab contains all the input variables and fields that are configured in the Start step for the
taskflow. It also contains the temporary variables and fields that also include tasks such as Data Task step
and Command Task step that were used to run the taskflow.

To update the input and temporary variables or fields and their associated values, open the All Jobs and
Running Jobs page in Monitor or the My Jobs page in Data Integration, and then click the taskflow instance.
On the taskflow status page, click the Edit icon next to the Input or Temp variable. Based on the values
passed in the taskflow, the variables are displayed in the JSON or XML format in the Variable Input and
Variable Temp dialog boxes respectively. Update the variables and click Update.

You cannot run a task that never ran. For example, you cannot run a taskflow instance from the Data Task 1
as shown in the following image:

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 In this case, you must update the variable value that is used in the Decision 1 step, and then run from the
Decision 1 step again.

The following image shows the taskflow instance after it runs from the Decision 1 step:

For more information about the input and temporary fields, see the Taskflows documentation.

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Chapter 3

Data Integration job log files

Data Integration generates log files to help you monitor running, failed, and completed jobs. You can access
some of the log files from the All Jobs, Running Jobs, and My Jobs pages, and from the job details.

Data Integration generates the following types of log files:

Session log file

Data Integration generates a session log file for each job. If a job fails, download the log file to help you
troubleshoot the job.

Reject file

Data Integration creates a reject file for each flat file and Oracle target in a mapping or mapping task
that contains error rows. The reject file contains information about each rejected target row and the
reason that the row was rejected. Data Integration saves the reject file to the following default folder:
$PMBadFileDir/<task federated ID>

Downloading a session log file

You can download the log file for a job that is running, completed, or failed. Download the log file from the All
Jobs, Running Jobs, or My Jobs page or from the job details.

1. In Monitor, select All Jobs or Running Jobs, or in Data Integration, select My Jobs.
2. Perform either of the following steps:
• Click the Download Log icon in the row that contains the job.
• Click the job name to open the job details, and then click Download Session Log in the Results area.

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C L
Cloud Application Integration community log files
URL 5 downloading 31
Cloud Developer community failed jobs 31
URL 5

M
D maintenance outages 6
Data Integration community mappings
URL 5 viewing job details 16
viewing job properties 17
viewing job results 17

E viewing mapping task details 18

monitoring
error rows files all jobs 7
synchronization tasks 31 jobs 7
running jobs 8
your jobs 10

I
Informatica Global Customer Support
contact information 6
S
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services status
web site 5 Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services 6
system status 6

J
jobs
T
customizing properties 14 taskflows
downloading log files 31 monitoring 7
error rows files 31 monitoring all taskflows 7
filtering 14 monitoring running taskflows 8
log files 31 monitoring your taskflows 10
monitoring 7 resuming 26
monitoring all jobs 7 suspending 26
monitoring running jobs 8 viewing job details 22
monitoring your jobs 10 tasks
properties 12 monitoring 7
restarting 26 monitoring all tasks 7
sorting 14 monitoring running tasks 8
stopping 26 monitoring your tasks 10
viewing detailed information 15 viewing job details 16
viewing details for mappings 16 viewing job properties 17
viewing details for taskflows 22 viewing job results 17
viewing details for tasks 16 viewing mapping task details 18
viewing job properties 17 trust site
viewing job results 17 description 6
viewing mapping task details 18
viewing properties 12
viewing subtasks 11
U
upgrade notifications 6

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W
web site 5

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