Difference between Stopping and Aborting a Task in Informatica

You can either stop or abort a task within a workflow from the Workflow Monitor.

Stopping a Task

• When you stop a task the Integration service stops processing the task

• The Integration Service does not process other tasks in the path of the stopped or aborted task.

• When we stop a task the Integration Service continues processing concurrent tasks in the workflow.

• If the Integration Service cannot stop the task, you can abort the task.

Aborting a Task

• Abort task is similar to stopping but the difference is that except it has a timeout period of 60 seconds. If the Integration Service cannot finish processing and committing data within the timeout period, it kills the DTM process and terminates the session

• When you abort a task, the Integration Service kills the process on the task(Just like the unix kill command)

• When you abort a task the Integration Service continues processing concurrent tasks.