Services Integration Framework (SIF) Flashcards
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Which SIF API call is used to retrieve the history of changes made to a record in Informatica MDM Hub?
Answer: GetRecordHistory
GetRecordHistory retrieves the audit trail and change history for a specific record in the MDM Hub.
In SIF, what is the purpose of the 'SiperianClient' class?
Answer: It acts as the main entry point for making SIF API calls from Java clients
SiperianClient is the primary Java class used to create and send SIF requests to the MDM Hub server.
Which protocol does the SIF Web Services API use for message transport?
Answer: SOAP over HTTP/HTTPS
SIF Web Services use SOAP over HTTP or HTTPS as the underlying transport protocol.
What does the 'SiperianObjectUID' represent in a SIF request?
Answer: A unique identifier combining the object type and rowid to reference an MDM object
SiperianObjectUID is a compound identifier that specifies both the type and the unique row ID of an MDM Hub object.
Which SIF operation allows external systems to add a new record to a landing table without triggering the match-and-merge process immediately?
Answer: Put (to landing table)
Putting data into a landing table loads records for staging without immediately invoking the match-and-merge batch process.
In Informatica MDM SIF, what is an 'Interaction' object?
Answer: A wrapper object that encapsulates a SIF request and its associated metadata
An Interaction is the SIF container object that wraps request parameters, authentication context, and operation details.
Which SIF API is used to search for records in the MDM Hub using user-defined query parameters?
Answer: ExecuteCustomQuery
ExecuteCustomQuery allows callers to run named queries with runtime parameters against MDM Hub base objects.