What is a code page in Informatica

Answer Posted / shankar_dwh

The code page is used to specify the character encoding. It is selected based on the source data. You can set this in both source and target FF. For Flat file source you have to go to edit table-advance button- code page. Here you can see list of code pages. The purpose of each code page is specific to the type of of source data. It means you have to select corresponding code page for the source data type. Say for example if Thai, Turkey, Japanese source data you have select corresponding code page in order to make sure Informatica understands the data set correctly.

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