Can we have a Mapping without a Source Qualifier?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Answer / varun dikshit
What If we connect a sequence generator directly to target? No SQ required in such a case :)
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Answer / sj
sorry guys i wrote the answer wrong.It's not possible with out sq.
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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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