Infor Data Lake Connector

The Infor Data Lake connector is suitable for all Infor applications with access to the Infor Data Lake. The Infor Data Lake unifies all your data into a centralized location within the Infor environment. ION API provides a single gateway to access the data in the Infor Data Lake through an API.

To connect to your Infor Data Lake data, you need an ION API file. This file contains the authorization credentials used by Precog to access the API.

1. Log in to your Infor ION API application through ION Desk. You will need to have the role of IONAPI-Administrator.
   
   
2. Select Authorized Apps. Click on the plus icon to add a new app (non-Infor authorized application). Name the app “Precog” and use “Precog ION API File” for the description. Select the Backend Service type and then save the new app.
   
   
3. From the Authorized Apps menu, open the new Precog application. Click on the Download Credentials button to open a dialog box. Select Create Service Account. In the User Name field, select your user name from the type-ahead list. Click on “Download Credentials”. Save this file to a safe and secure location. You will upload this file in the Precog connector configuration form.

In the Infor Data Lake connector, there are some options available for “Variation Handling”.



Generally, customers will select the first and default option of “Latest excluding deleted and archived records”. This will return the latest version of records that have been updated or edited while excluding records that have been deleted or archived. Selecting options with “All variations” can lead to multiple versions of the same record, which can be confused for duplicate records in your destination database. For more information, reference the Variation handling documentation from Infor.