How to Sign up Microsoft Power Apps without business or work email

Currently, Personal Email address (e.g.  email address ends in outlook.com, hotmail.com, gmail.com, …) is not supported to sign up for PowerApps. PowerApps doesn’t support email addresses provided by consumer email services or telecommunications providers currently. If you sign up for PowerApps using your own personal email address, you would receive the following error message: No Worries!… Continue reading How to Sign up Microsoft Power Apps without business or work email

How to extract middle name in Informatica Power center

You might use REG_EXTRACT in an expression to extract middle names from a regular expression that matches first name, middle name, and last name. For example, I have an input port for full_name and I want to split and assign the full name as First, Middle & last name. Let’s identify the regular expression for… Continue reading How to extract middle name in Informatica Power center

How to extract first & last name in Informatica Power center

How to split first & last name from a full name In informatica Power center? There are few ways to do this but the recommended and the easy way is to use the function REG_EXTRACT. This function Extracts subpatterns of a regular expression within an input value. Let’s see an example now, I have an… Continue reading How to extract first & last name in Informatica Power center

How to remove header and footer records of a flat file using UNIX shell script?

Use the below sed command to delete the Header record. i – Replace the original file1d – delete the first record in the file Use the below sed command to delete the footer record. i – Replace the original file$d – delete the last record in the file Use the below sed command to delete… Continue reading How to remove header and footer records of a flat file using UNIX shell script?

Decode function with Regular expression pattern matching in informatica PowerCenter

This post will help you to understand how to match a regular expression pattern in Decode function in informatica PowerCenter. If the requirement is to search for a pattern and assign the values accordingly, you can configure your DECODE function along with REG_MATCH to match with a pattern. In my case if any plan status… Continue reading Decode function with Regular expression pattern matching in informatica PowerCenter

How to remove the hash symbol from the flat file header in PowerCenter

How to remove the hash symbol from the flat file header in PowerCenter? You need add a customer property RemoveOutputHeaderHash in the session level. If you are using Header Options to create header columns in a flat file, you may end up with a hash symbol in the beginning of the header record. To remove that… Continue reading How to remove the hash symbol from the flat file header in PowerCenter

How to add Header Fields To Flat Files in Informatica Power Center (using header command)

How to add Header Fields To a Flat Files in Informatica Power Center using “Header command”? This option will give you the flexibility to fully customize your header names. In this example I am creating a csv target file with comma delimited. Also read another option solution using “Header options” This solution offers a little… Continue reading How to add Header Fields To Flat Files in Informatica Power Center (using header command)

How to add Header Fields To Flat Files in Informatica Power Center (using Header Options)

How to add Header Fields To a Flat Files in Informatica Power Center using “Header Options”? This is one of the quick & easy way to print the header columns in the target flat file. In this example I am creating a csv target file with Pipe delimited. Also read another option solution using “Header… Continue reading How to add Header Fields To Flat Files in Informatica Power Center (using Header Options)

How to get the last day of the month in informatica

How to get the last day of the month in informatica power center? We can use the transformation function LAST_DAY which Returns the date of the last day of the month for each date in a port. SyntaxLAST_DAY(pass_the_input_date) Example LAST_DAY( PLAN_END_DATE ) Let’s consider a real time scenarios. We have a PLAN effective date and… Continue reading How to get the last day of the month in informatica

Parameterize the Flat File Name & Directory in Informatica PowerCenter

How to Parameterize the Flat File Name & Directory in Informatica PowerCenter. Let’s walk through the steps by parameterizing the target file directory and the file name. Define the workflow variables for Target file directory & file name Assign the variable fields in the session task Give the location of the parameter file in the… Continue reading Parameterize the Flat File Name & Directory in Informatica PowerCenter

How to convert Informatica date format YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS

How to convert the date format YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS in Informatica BDM. Yo may have this scenario in the inbound file where the timestamp will come with a string T along with the actual date & time. This is a valid timestamp in informatica and can be easily converted using to_date function. Let’s see the correct date… Continue reading How to convert Informatica date format YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS

Download Sample XSD and XML file

Looking for a sample XML file and its layout (XSD) for your testing? You can download the same from the link provided below. Sample XML file: Customers and orders (CustomersOrders.xml) This file contains customers and orders. Customers and orders contains an XSD that can be used to validate this document. It uses the xs:key and xs:keyref features of XSD to… Continue reading Download Sample XSD and XML file