Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

The decision task

You can control the execution of the workflow by defining the condition in the decision task. The decision task allows you to specify the condition using which you can control the execution of branches in a workflow. In other words, you can check the condition of multiple tasks, and based on that, you can decide whether you wish to trigger the next task or not.

Consider the workflow shown in the next screenshot. As you can see, the session task should be triggered only if the two tasks before the decision task are successful. We can define the condition in the two link tasks, but the problem in that case will be that the session task will be triggered even if one task is successful. This issue can be resolved using the decision ...