Friday, September 7, 2012

“UTF-8 encoding of Unicode” PowerCenter Integration Service is unavailable – Informatica 9.0.1

I had a tough time while resolving Informatica repository & Integration services issues. I installed Informatica on Linux platform with no issues but after creating repository, integration service was not getting up. After scrutinizing the issue I found that basically its environmet and language settings at OS and repository services level that was causing the issue so these settings must be properly defined. During repository creation and integration services configuration I faced a problem “UTF-8 encoding of Unicode”, below is the steps how I coped with this issue and made my day happy J

Hope this will be helpful for the visitors of this page.

Environment:
Informatica 9.0.1
Platform: Linux 5.3 64 bit
Database: Oracle 11.2.0.3 64 bit client
Informatica Power User: Oracle
Oracle Client User: Oracle

Step 1: Repository Services is Up but Integration service is down.

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Step 2: Click on Repository Service “pow_rep” at left pane, “UTF-8 encoding of Unicode” error is appearing. It shows that its related to some language setting issue because in repository code page “MS Window Latin 1 (ANSI)” is set and somewhere in the system UTF-8 is set that is not compatible to repository code page language.

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Step 3: Click on Integration service “pow_int” at left pane, it shows Powercenter Integration Service is unavailable.

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Step 4: Check environment settings, we found that LANG=en US.UTF-8 is set in our environment settings.

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Step 5: Unset the LANG setting.
[oracle@sun2 bin]$ unset LANG

Step 6: Restart informatica services:

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Step 7: Restart repository & integration services, both went up with no issue.

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Yours,

Saurabh

“Knowledge brings the power, attitude respect.”





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