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how to call DB2 functions in Informatica ETL?

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How to call DB2 functions in Informatica ETL?

Only used views in ETL before, have no idea how to do so for the functions, anyone got any idea?

posted Oct 17, 2014 by Sachin

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Did you check if the Stored Procedure transformation can be used to invoke functions? It is the same as envoke stored procedures.

answer Oct 20, 2014 by Shweta Singh
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