When a user creates a folder, corresponding entries are made into table OPB_SUBJECT; attributes like folder name,

owner id, type of the folder like shared or not are all stored.

select * from

OPB_SUBJECT

When we create\import sources and define field names, datatypes etc in source analyzer entries are made into OPB_SRC and OPB_SRC_FLD.

select * from METADATA.OPB_SRC

where

SOURCE_NAME ='EMPLOYEE_SRC'

select * from metadata.OPB_SRC_FLD where SRC_ID =15

When target and related fields are created/imported from any database entries are made into tables like OPB_TARG and OPB_TARG_FLD.

select * from METADATA.OPB_TARG

where

TARGET_NAME ='EMP_PKS_TRG'

select * from METADATA.OPB_TARG_FLD where TARGET_ID =7

Table OPB_MAPPING stores mapping attributes like Mapping Name, Folder Id, Valid status and mapping comments.

select * from

METADATA.OPB_MAPPING

Table OPB_WIDGET stores attributes like widget type, widget name, comments etc. Widgets are nothing but the Transformations which Informatica internally calls them as Widgets. Table OPB_SESSION stores configurations related to a session task and table OPB_CNX_ATTR stores information related to connection objects. Table OPB_WFLOW_RUN stores process details like workflow name, workflow started time, workflow completed time, server node it ran etc. REP_ALL_SOURCES, REP_ALL_TARGETS and REP_ALL_MAPPINGS are few of the many views created over these tables. PowerCenter applications access the PowerCenter repository through the Repository Service. The Repository Service protects metadata in the repository by managing repository connections and using object-locking to ensure object consistency. We can create a repository as global or local. We can go for global to store common objects that multiple developers can use through shortcuts and go for local repository to perform of development mappings and workflows. From a local repository, we can create shortcuts to objects in shared folders in the global repository. PowerCenter supports versioning. A versioned repository can store multiple versions of an object.

Administration Console The Administration Console is a web application that we use to administer the PowerCenter domain and PowerCenter security. There are two pages in the console, Domain Page & Security Page. We can do the following In Domain Page: o Create & manage application services like Integration Service and Repository Service o Create and manage nodes, licenses and folders o Restart and shutdown nodes o View log events o Other domain management tasks like applying licenses and managing grids and resources We can do the following in Security Page: o Create, edit and delete native users and groups o Configure a connection to an LDAP directory service. Import users and groups from the LDAP directory service o Create, edit and delete Roles (Roles are collections of privileges) o Assign roles and privileges to users and groups o Create, edit, and delete operating system profiles. An operating system profile is a level of security that the Integration Services uses to run workflows.