The PowerExchange Navigator is the graphical user interface from which you define and manage capture registrations, extraction maps, and data maps.
You must define a capture registration for each source table. The corresponding extraction map is automatically generated. For DB2 sources, you can also define data maps if you need to perform column‑level processing, such as adding user-defined columns and building expressions to populate them. You can import the extraction maps into PowerCenter so that they can be used for moving change data to the target.
If the PowerExchange Navigator is not installed on the same machine as a Microsoft SQL Server data source, you must install the SQL Server client software on the PowerExchange Navigator machine. The client software is required because PowerExchange uses SQL Server services when creating capture registrations. For the same situation with DB2 and Oracle data sources, you do not need the RDBMS client software. Instead, from the PowerExchange Navigator, you can point to the PowerExchange Listener on the machine that contains the source DB2 database or Oracle instance.
For more information about the PowerExchange Navigator, see the