PCSF_46008 Cannot connect to domain to lookup service – Informatica power center

You may experience this error while trying to connect to PowerCenter developer tools like Repository Manager, Designer, workflow Manager or workflow monitor. This error might be due to below two possible scenarios. 

  1. Your informatica service is not running
  2. your database connection password might have expired 

 

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Cannot connect to domain to lookup services

Here is the steps to follow to make sure all services are up & running.
— Go to Run >> Services.msc

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Go to Run > Services.msc

— Locate informatica service and check the status. If its not running, restart the service.

informatica-service-status
Informatica service is not in running status.
informatica-service-started
Start informatica service

— Locate the database service and check the status, here its oracle. If its not running, restart the service.

OracleServiceXE
OracleXETNSListener

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Check the oracle database status, if not running start the service

— Please wait 2/3 minutes before accessing the powerCenter, there are number of other associated services tied to the above core service and it will take some time to complete the process.

— Go to powerCenter repository and connect now to your repository.

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Successfully connected to domain-now login to repository

If you still have the Issue, watch the video and check your informatica domain & repository database connections. If password expired, reset the password and try again.

Have any questions? or need help with this topic, please do reach out to me at kvtinformatica@gmail.com. Don’t forget to follow my Youtube channel and FB page, Lets stay connected and learn together.

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