Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / rj

why not? If you use a xml file or a VSM(cobol) file u will not have a source qualifier

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / arnab

yes it is possible , if you have cobol source files
you will not have a source qualifier but instead
a normalizer

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / ashish

In addition to the Aruna's answer,Integration service require native datatypes and SQ convert the port in to native datatypes to make the data compatible with Integration service.
for Eg. In source table if a column's datatype is "Varchar2" then source qualifier will convert it in "String" type.

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / aruna1105

No. Source qualifier is required to make the data compatible with Informatica. It basically qualifies the data to a language which informatica can understand.

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / babu

Hi All,
It can be possible,whenever u r source is COBAL FILE at
that time NORMALIZER T/R ACTS AS A SQ.

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / amit

Yes it is very much possible to have a mapping without a
source qualfier...If you have COBOL source files you will
NOT have a source qualifier , you will have a Normalizer
instead..

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / kapil

In case of XML files, it's called as XML source qualifier.
So we can't have mapping without SQ.

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / varun dikshit

What If we connect a sequence generator directly to target? No SQ required in such a case :)

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / sj

sorry guys i wrote the answer wrong.It's not possible with out sq.

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Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?..

Answer / ankit

i guess u can just create stored procedure transformation
without any source in mapping or target in mapping...define
connection in session...i haven't tried this...i haven't
lost my nutts yet

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