Create Informatica Mappings From/To an ODBC Data Source for MYOB AccountRight

Informatica provides a powerful, elegant means of transporting and transforming your data. By utilizing the CData ODBC Driver for MYOB AccountRight, 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 MYOB AccountRight data in Informatica PowerCenter.

Connect to MYOB AccountRight as an ODBC Data Source

Information for connecting to MYOB AccountRight follows, along with different instructions for configuring a DSN in Windows and Linux environments.

These properties are required when connecting to a company file (both for Cloud and On-Premise instances).

• CompanyFileId: You can find this by starting MYOB, opening your data file, and selecting Help -> About MYOB
• User: The username associated with your company file.
• Password: The password associated with your company file.

Connecting to a Cloud Instance

To connect to a cloud instance of MYOB, you can use the embedded OAuth credentials or create an OAuth app with MYOB. This process is detailed in the Help documentation.

Connecting to an On-Premise instance:

When connecting to an on-premise instance, set the following connection property in addition to those above:

• InitiateOauth: Set this to OFF.
• Url: The Url of your MYOB instance.

Windows

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Linux

If you are installing the CData ODBC Driver for MYOB AccountRight in a Linux environment, the driver installation predefines a system DSN. You can modify the DSN by editing the system data sources file (/etc/odbc.ini) and defining the required connection properties.

/etc/odbc.ini

[CData MYOB Source]
Driver = CData ODBC Driver for MYOB AccountRight
Description = My Description
OAuthClientId = YourClientId
 OAuthClientSecret = YourClientSecret
 CompanyFileId = yourCompanyFileId
 CallbackURL = http://localhost:33333
 User = companyFileUser
 Password = companyFilePassword
InitiateOAuth = GETANDREFRESH

For specific information on using these configuration files, please refer to the help documentation (installed and found online).

Create a Linked Table to Accounts Data

Follow the steps below to create a linked table, which enables you to access live Accounts data.

Create the ODBC Connection

Follow the steps below to connect to MYOB AccountRight in Informatica PowerCenter:

1. In the Informatica Developer tool connect to your repository and create a project.
2. In the Connection Explorer pane, right-click and click Create a Connection.
3. In the New Database Connection wizard that is displayed, enter a name and Id for the connection and in the Type menu select ODBC.
4. In the Connection String property, enter the DSN.

NOTE: If you are working in a Linux operating system, set the Driver Manager for Linux property to unixODBC 2.3.x.

Create the MYOB AccountRight Data Object

After you have created an ODBC connection to MYOB AccountRight, you can now access MYOB AccountRight entities in Informatica. Follow the steps below to add Accounts entities to your project.

1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Data Object.
2. In the wizard that is displayed, select the Relational Data Object option.
3. Click the Browse button next to the Connection box and select the ODBC connection you created in the previous step.
4. Select the option to create a data object from an existing resource and click the Browse button next to the Resource box.
5. In the dialog that is displayed, clear the Show Default Schema Only option and expand the node for the ODBC connection. Select the entity that you want. 👁 The driver models MYOB AccountRight entities as relational tables. (Salesforce is shown.)
   

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

👁 Table data and metadata in the Data Viewer. (Salesforce is shown.)

Create the Mapping

Follow the steps below to add the MYOB AccountRight source to a mapping:

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

👁 The source MYOB AccountRight table in the mapping. (Salesforce is shown.)

Follow the steps below to map MYOB AccountRight 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 MYOB AccountRight 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 MYOB AccountRight data, right-click in the workspace and then click Run Mapping.

👁 The completed mapping. (Salesforce is shown.)