Cloud Mapping Designer

Ajay Bhosal

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 Agenda
• Discuss Cloud Mapping Designer
• Define mappings
• Explain field rules
• Describe Mapping Tasks
• Discuss Schema Handling

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 Mapping Lifecycle
A mapping lifecycle has the following stages:
1. Design a Mapping
•Must contain at least one source and one target.
•Optionally create parameters for connections, objects and transformations.

2. Run and Test the mapping

• Verify that the mapping works.

• Enter values for parameters.

3. Create Mapping Tasks

• Run on schedule or as part of task flow.
• Enter values for parameters.
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 IICS Mappings

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 Mapping
Prerequisites
A mapping is an asset that defines the flow of data from the source to the target.
In IICS, you can create the following types of mappings:
 Data Integration Mapping or Mapping
• Used to deploy small to medium data integration solutions that are processed directly by a
Secure Agent group using the infrastructure that you provide, or by the Hosted Agent.

 Elastic Mapping
• Used to deploy large data integration solutions.
• When you run an elastic mapping, the mapping is pushed to an elastic cluster to achieve
faster processing for broad data sets.
• The infrastructure of the elastic cluster is automatically optimized based on the number and
size of elastic jobs.
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 Mapping Features
Prerequisites
When you create a mapping, you can perform the following actions on the mapping:
1. Copying Transformations
• You can use the Cloud Mapping Designer to copy transformations between mappings or
mapplets.
• To copy one or more transformations, you must select the transformation(s) and click the
Copy icon.

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 Mapping Features
Prerequisites
2. Mapping Data Preview
• Mapping Data Preview allows users to preview the data for individual transformations to test
the mapping logic.
• You can preview data for a transformation on the Preview panel of that transformation.
• The preview results are stored on the Secure Agent machine in the following location:
<Secure Agent installation directory>/apps/Data_Integration_Server/data/cache/preview

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 Mapping Features
Prerequisites
Data preview is not supported for the following transformations:
 Web Services transformation
 Sequence Generator transformation
 Target transformation
 Data Masking transformation
 Hierarchy Builder transformation
 Velocity transformation

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 Mapping Features
Prerequisites
3. Customizing Preview Results
• When you run the data preview for a mapping transformation, you can select which columns to
display or reorder the columns in the Preview panel of the mapping designer.
• You can customize the mapping preview from the Settings option in the Preview panel.

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 Mapping Features
Prerequisites
4. Data Flow Run Order
• When you create a mapping with multiple data flows, you can specify the data flow run order
• You can specify the data flow run order when you want Data Integration to load the targets in
the mapping in a particular order.

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 Demo:
Create a Simple Mapping

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 Field Rules

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 Field Rules Overview
Prerequisites
• Field rules define how data enters a transformation from the upstream
transformation.
• When there are no field rules defined in the mapping, then by default, all fields
are included.
• You can define field rules for all the transformations, except the Source
transformation.
• If you define multiple field rules, then the rules are evaluated in the specified
order.

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 Renaming Fields
Prerequisites
When renaming fields in IICS, consider the following points:
• Renaming fields avoids naming conflicts
• Rename fields individually or in bulk
• Field naming conflicts propagate throughout the data flow
• Rename fields before the transformation where the error occurred
• Can use a prefix, suffix, or pattern to rename fields in bulk

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 Field Rules – Selection Criteria
Prerequisites
When you configure a field rule, you must specify the following field selection criteria to
determine which incoming fields apply to the field rule.

Criteria Definition
All Fields • Includes or excludes all fields
• Can rename all fields in bulk

Named Fields • Includes or excludes specific fields

• Can create parameters to represent fields
• Can rename fields individually or in bulk
Fields by Data Types • Includes or excludes fields of a selected
data type
• Can rename fields in bulk
Fields by Text or Pattern • Includes or excludes fields based on a
prefix, suffix, or pattern
• Can rename fields in bulk

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 Mapping Task

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 Mapping Task Overview
Prerequisites
• A mapping task allows you to process data based on the data flow logic
defined in a mapping.
• When you create a Mapping Task, you must select a mapping to use in the
task. Optionally, you can also define the following:
1. Parameters that associate with the mapping
2. Schedule to run the task
3. Pre and post-processing commands for the task.

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 Schema Change Handling
Prerequisites
• Schema Change Handling defines how Data Integration handles changes made
to data object schemas.
• A schema change includes one or more of the following changes to the data
object:
 Fields are added.
 Fields are deleted.
 Fields are renamed.
 Field data type, precision, or scale is updated.

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 Schema Change Handling Options
Prerequisites
 Asynchronous
• This is the default option.
• Data Integration refreshes the schema when you edit the mapping or mapping task, and
when IICS version is upgraded.

 Dynamic
• Data Integration refreshes the schema every time the task runs.
• Applicable for source, target, and lookup objects of certain connector types.

Points to Remember:
• You can see if a connector supports dynamic schema change handling using the help section for that connector.
• You cannot enable dynamic schema change handling for hierarchical data.

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 Demo:
Creating a Mapping Task

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