Recent Pmrep Posts from Tech Monger

Run Parallel Scripts with PMREP in Informatica

2018-07-18T19:00:43.565132Z

If you want to run simultaneous scripts which make use of pmrep connect then you would find that default connect command would fail or will not behave correctly. Learn how to avoid pmrep connection collision using environment variable INFA_REPCNX_INFO.

Send Informatica Repository Notifications to Logged in Users

2018-07-18T18:57:53.785931Z

Often as an Informatica Administrator you want to send message to all informatica users to convey information such as addition of new feature or plugin, scheduled service downtime etc. You can send mails to all users but if you dont have email addresses of all users or want to target only currently logged in users then you can use pmrep notify command.

How to Kill User Session in Informatica

2018-06-12T18:17:54.622554Z

When user login informatica power center clients or login via server using command line it creates active user session. However as an informatica administrator you might find yourself in a position to kill all or specific user session which are currently connected to informatica repository service. It is especially useful when when user has created write intent lock on an object and other users are not able to modify or execute that object. Also prior to taking informatica services down you might want to kill all active user sessions. You can achieve this using pmrep's KillUserConnection command.

Secure Informatica Scripts with PMCMD and PMREP

2018-04-18T09:40:13.778165Z

Often you require details about informatica objects from repository database. Informatica setup provides an API to fetch required details without querying actual repository database. This API comes under two wrapper scripts known as PMCMD and PMREP. To use this API in script you would need to provide repository password which makes code insecure; Especially connecting with Administrator User. However to hide passwords in scripts this API also facilitates an option to provide password in encrypted format. Below we will discuss how you can use encrypted password with PMCMD and PMREP to make your programs more secure.