PMCMD Command Usage in Informatica

Informatica provides four built-in command line programs or utilities to interact with the
informatica features. They are:
0 infacmd
1 infasetup
2 pmcmd
3 pmrep
This article covers only about the pmcmd command. The pmcmd is a command line
utility provided by the informatica to perform the following tasks.
4 Start workflows.
5 Start workflow from a specific task.
6 Stop, Abort workflows and Sessions.
7 Schedule the workflows.
How to use PMCMD Command in Informatica:

1. Scheduling the workflow

The pmcmd command syntax for scheduling the workflow is shown below:
pmcmd scheduleworkflow -service informatica-integration-Service -d
domain-name -u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name

You cannot specify the scheduling options here. This command just schedules the
workflow for the next run.

2. Start workflow

The following pmcmd command starts the specified workflow:

pmcmd startworkflow -service informatica-integration-Service -d domain-
name -u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name

3. Stop workflow

Pmcmd command to stop the infromatica workflow is shown below:

pmcmd stopworkflow -service informatica-integration-Service -d domain-

name -u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name

4. Start workflow from a task

You can start the workflow from a specified task. This is shown below:
pmcmd startask -service informatica-integration-Service -d domain-name
-u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name -startfrom
task-name

5. Stopping a task.

The following pmcmd command stops the specified task instance:

pmcmd stoptask -service informatica-integration-Service -d domain-name
-u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name task-name

6. Aborting workflow and task.

The following pmcmd commands are used to abort workflow and task in a workflow:
pmcmd abortworkflow -service informatica-integration-Service -d domain-
name -u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name

pmcmd aborttask -service informatica-integration-Service -d domain-name

-u user-name -p password -f folder-name -w workflow-name task-name