Implementing FOR loop in Informatica PowerCenter

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Summary
This article briefs about implementing FOR loop in Informatica using Java Transformation.

Author Bio
Author(s): Sukumar Balasubramanian Company: CIBC Created on: November 17, 2009 Sukumar Balasubramanian is an experienced Informatica ETL Consultant working with CIBC, Canada. He has good exposure to Data Integration/Data Warehousing Projects. He is also a key contributor in informatica-l group of ittoolbox .This is his first technical article in TechNet.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 3 REQUIREMENT ................................................................................................................................................. 3 SOURCE ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 TARGET .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 SOLUTION OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................... 4 SOLUTION STEPS ............................................................................................................................................. 4 SOURCE ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION .............................................................................................................. 4 JAVA TRANSFORMATION ............................................................................................................................ 5 TARGET .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 OUTPUT ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 ADVANTAGES ................................................................................................................................................... 7 DISCLAIMER AND LIABILITY NOTICE ............................................................................................................. 8

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INTRODUCTION
This article briefs about implementing FOR loop in Informatica using Java Transformation.

REQUIREMENT
Consider that we are receiving a | delimited flat file that contains the sales persons tour information.

SOURCE

Salesperson Name Sukumar Ram Sukumar Ram

| | | | |

Tour from Date | 20091117 20091117 20091120 20091120 | | | |

Tour to Date 20091119 20091119 20091122 20091122

| | | | |

Place Chennai Bangalore Bangalore Chennai

Our requirement is to generate Tour Table TARGET that contains the following

TARGET Salesperson Name Sukumar Sukumar Sukumar Sukumar Sukumar Sukumar Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Date 20091117 20091118 20091119 20091120 20091121 20091122 20091117 20091118 20091119 20091120 20091121 20091122 Place Chennai Chennai Chennai Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Chennai Chennai Chennai

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SOLUTION OVERVIEW
To achieve the above requirement we will be using the Java Transformation available in Informatica PowerCenter.

SOLUTION STEPS

SOURCE Delimited Flat File TourInfo.txt Salesperson Name Sukumar Ram Sukumar Ram | | | | | Tour from Date | 20091117 20091117 20091120 20091120 | | | | Tour to Date 20091119 20091119 20091122 20091122 | | | | | Place Chennai Bangalore Bangalore Chennai

EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION

Port Name Description Salesperson Name

Data Type String(255) String(50)

Type I O

Expression

Use the substring, instr function to retrieve the sales person name using the | delimiter. Use the substring, instr function to retrieve the From Date using the | delimiter. Use the substring, instr function to retrieve the To Date name using the | delimiter. Use the substring, instr function to retrieve the Place using the | delimiter. To_date(FromDate,YYYYMMDD) To_date(ToDate,YYYYMMDD)

FromDate

String(20)

ToDate

String(20)

Place

String(20)

FromDate_out ToDate_out

Date time Date time

O O

Expression transformation is used for retrieving the values from the flat file source and assigns values to individual ports.

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JAVA TRANSFORMATION

Drag the java transformation into the Mapping. Create the following ports. Port Name Salesperson Name FromDate ToDate Place FromDate_out ToDate_out TourDate Data Type String(50) String(20) String(20) String(20) Date time Date time DateTime Type I/O I I I/O O O O

Link the FromDate_out, toDate_out from the Expression Transformation to the From Date and To Date ports of the Java transformation. Under the Java code tab; Import Package tab place the below code: Import java.util.*; Import java.text.*; This is to import relevant java packages. Under "On InputRow " tab place the following code

DateFormat formatter ; formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy"); FromDate_out =formatter.format(FromDate); ToDate_out =formatter.format(ToDate);

Calendar startCal = Calendar.getInstance ( ) ; Calendar endCal = Calendar.getInstance ( ) ;

Date date_start=new Date(FromDate.longValue()); startCal.setTime ( date_start) ;

Date date_end=new Date(ToDate.longValue()); endCal.setTime ( date_end) ;

for ( Calendar c = startCal; c.compareTo ( endCal ) <= 0; c.add (Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1 ) ) {

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TourDate= formatter.format(c.getTime ()); generateRow();

The above code snippet uses the java calendar function. You can see for loop construction based on the from date and the to date, We need to link the salesperson name, Tour Date and Place ports from this java transformation to the target.

TARGET

Relational Table TOUR DataType

Description Sales Person name Tour Date Place

String Date time String

OUTPUT

Source: Sukumar | 20091117 | 20091119 | Chennai

Target:

Salesperson Name Sukumar Sukumar Sukumar

Date 20091117 20091118 20091119

Place Chennai Chennai Chennai

Java transformation takes the from date and to date as input and a FOR loop is constructed. For each input row based on the from date and to date java transformation will generate multiple rows. In our case for a single row in source we will be generating 3 rows in target.

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ADVANTAGES

Java transformation can be used to generate multiple rows based on a condition. Normalizer can generate rows based on the Occurs clause where we will specify a static number but if you want to generate multiple rows based on a dynamic value then go for java transformation.

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