Create Informatica Mappings From/To a JDBC Data Source for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Informatica provides a powerful, elegant means of transporting and transforming your data. By utilizing the CData JDBC Driver for Dynamics 365 Business Central, you are gaining access to a driver based on industry-proven standards that integrates seamlessly with Informatica's powerful data transportation and manipulation features. This tutorial shows how to transfer and browse Dynamics 365 Business Central data in Informatica PowerCenter.

Deploy the Driver

To deploy the driver to the Informatica PowerCenter server, copy the CData JAR and .lic file, located in the lib subfolder in the installation directory, to the following folder: Informatica-installation-directory\services\shared\jars\thirdparty.

To work with Dynamics 365 Business Central data in the Developer tool, you will need to copy the CData JAR and .lic file, located in the lib subfolder in the installation directory, into the following folders:

• Informatica-installation-directory\client\externaljdbcjars
• Informatica-installation-directory\externaljdbcjars

Create the JDBC Connection

Follow the steps below to connect from Informatica Developer:

1. In the Connection Explorer pane, right-click your domain and click Create a Connection.
2. In the New Database Connection wizard that is displayed, enter a name and Id for the connection and in the Type menu select JDBC.
3. In the JDBC Driver Class Name property, enter: cdata.jdbc.d365businesscentral.D365BusinessCentralDriver
4. In the Connection String property, enter the JDBC URL, using the connection properties for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

   To authenticate to Dynamics 365 Business Central, you must provide the User and AccessKey properties.

   To obtain the User and AccessKey values, navigate to the Users page in Dynamics 365 Business Central and then click on Edit. The User Name and Web Service Access Key values are what you will enter as the User and AccessKey connection string properties. Note that the User Name is not your email address. It is a shortened user name.

   To connect to data, specify OrganizationUrl. If you have multiple companies in your organization, you must also specify the Company to indicate which company you would like to connect to. Company does not need to be specified if you have only one company.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Dynamics 365 Business Central JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.d365businesscentral.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical connection string is below:

   jdbc:d365businesscentral:OrganizationUrl=https://myaccount.financials.dynamics.com/;

Browse Dynamics 365 Business Central Tables

After you have added the driver JAR to the classpath and created a JDBC connection, you can now access Dynamics 365 Business Central entities in Informatica. Follow the steps below to connect to Dynamics 365 Business Central and browse Dynamics 365 Business Central tables:

1. Connect to your repository.
2. In the Connection Explorer, right-click the connection and click Connect.
3. Clear the Show Default Schema Only option.

You can now browse Dynamics 365 Business Central tables in the Data Viewer: Right-click the node for the table and then click Open. On the Data Viewer view, click Run.

Create Dynamics 365 Business Central Data Objects

Follow the steps below to add Dynamics 365 Business Central tables to your project:

1. Select tables in Dynamics 365 Business Central, then right-click a table in Dynamics 365 Business Central, and click Add to Project.
2. In the resulting dialog, select the option to create a data object for each resource.
3. In the Select Location dialog, select your project.

   Create a Mapping

   Follow the steps below to add the Dynamics 365 Business Central source to a mapping:

   1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Mapping.
   2. Expand the node for the Dynamics 365 Business Central connection and then drag the data object for the table onto the editor.
   3. In the dialog that appears, select the Read option.

   Follow the steps below to map Dynamics 365 Business Central columns to a flat file:

   1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Data Object.
   2. Select Flat File Data Object -> Create as Empty -> Fixed Width.
   3. In the properties for the Dynamics 365 Business Central object, select the rows you want, right-click, and then click copy. Paste the rows into the flat file properties.
   4. Drag the flat file data object onto the mapping. In the dialog that appears, select the Write option.
   5. Click and drag to connect columns.

   To transfer Dynamics 365 Business Central data, right-click in the workspace and then click Run Mapping.