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Informatica PowerCenter Repository tables

Informatica PowerCenter Repository tables I am sure every PowerCenter developer either has an intention or necessity to know about the Informatica metadata tables and where information is stored etc. For the starters, all the objects that we create in Informatica PowerCenter - let them be sources, targets, mappings, workflows, sessions, expressions, be it anything related to PowerCenter, will get stored in a set of database tables (call them as metadata tables or OPB tables or repository tables). * I want to know all the sessions in my folder that are calling some shell script/command in the Post-Session command task. * I want to know how many mappings have transformations that contain "STOCK_CODE" defined as a port. * I want to know all unused ports in my repository of 100 folders. In repositories where you have many number of sessions or workflows or mappings, it gets difficult to achieve this with the help of Informatica PowerCenter client tool...