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Informatica PowerConnect for Webservices I started working with Informatica powerconnect for webservices with Informatica version 8. I was mighty disappointed to see that the infromatica manual said very little about how to use the transformations. The web wasn’t of much help either. Lots of trial and error, figuring around and hours of calls with Informatica support finally got our mappings working the way it had to. More because the webservice we were calling were rather complex, but even with a far simpler webservice it still is a herculian task getting the thing to work without help. This article is written with the assumption that the reader has gone through the Informatica manual related to power connect for web services. We can use powerconnect as a source, target or consumer transformation. The chance that you use as a consumer transformation being the highest I will talk mostly about that. You start with using a WSDL file that the webservice provider has given you. Most probab...