Customizing OOTB mappings

Hi,
We are using the bulit-in OOTB mappings in BI Apps and the source is from Peoplesoft.....
We have been unable to combine sources from Peoplesoft and Oracle while customizing the OOTB mappings. We tried importing the tables from Peoplesoft but it was throwing a license not available error. We tried creating the tables manually too but it didn't allow us to modify the newly created Peoplesoft table. Moreover the database subtype of the new table was Peoplesoft Tree rather than Peoplesoft Record as is the value for OOTB Peoplesoft tables....
and the PowerConnect is also setup...
can anyone help us to resolve this problem?
Thanks,

Do you have an OEM Informatica license thats part of OBIA or do you own a standalone Informatica license? If later is the answer, then you should be able to do that. If former, then you got to pay extra $ for connecting to other data sources.
kris

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