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About the DAC Process Life Cycle

The DAC is used by different user groups to design, execute, monitor, and diagnose execution plans. These phases together make up the DAC process life cycle, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. DAC Process Life Cycle

The phases of the process and the actions associated with them are as follows:

• Setup
  • Set up database connections
  • Set up ETL processes (Informatica)
  • Set up email recipients
• Design
  • Define application objects
  • Design execution plans
• Execute
  • Define scheduling parameters to run execution plans
  • Access runtime controls to restart or stop currently running schedules
• Monitor
  • Monitor runtime execution of data warehouse applications
  • Monitor users, DAC repository, and application maintenance jobs