Procedure for restarting an Informatica PowerCenter workflow from the failed task

You can restart an Informatica PowerCenter workflow from the failed task, by using the Dynamic Workload Console.

About this task

To restart an Informatica PowerCenter workflow from the failed task, run the following steps:

Procedure

  1. From the navigation toolbar, click System Status and Health.
  2. In the Workload Monitoring section, click Monitor Workload.
  3. From the engine drop-down list, select the name of the IBM Workload Scheduler engine connection from where you want to work with Informatica PowerCenter jobs.
  4. From the object type drop-down list, select the object type Job .
  5. From the drop-down list of defined tasks or queries for monitoring jobs, select to display the related list of jobs. If you have a predefined task to display Informatica PowerCenter jobs, click that task. A list of jobs is displayed.
    Distributed environment
    The Job Type column displays PowerCenter Workflow details.
    z/OS environment
    The Advanced Job Type column displays PowerCenter Workflow details. To display the Advanced Job Type column in the table, edit the Task Properties and in Column Definition, add the Advanced Job Type column to the Selected Columns list. Move the column up to define the order of the column in the table and make it more visible.
  6. Click the hyperlink Workflow details.
    The Workflow details panel opens.
  7. Select the action that you want to run either on the workflow or on the single task (worklet task or session task):
    1. Actions on the workflow:
      Refresh
      Refreshes the Workflow Details panel with the latest updates on the remote Informatica PowerCenter system to synchronize the two views.
      Recover
      Restarts the workflow from the failed task.
      Stop
      Stops the workflow.
      Abort
      Aborts the workflow.
      Rerun job
      Restarts the IBM Workload Scheduler job. The Informatica PowerCenter workflow restarts from the beginning. If you select to rerun the job, to display the workflow details you must close the current Workflow details panel and open the one related to the new instance of the job.
    2. Actions on the single task:
      Stop
      Stops the task.
      Abort
      Aborts the task.
      Restart
      Restarts the task.
  8. Confirm the action that you want to run.