If your organization has the Organization Hierarchy license, you can create one or more sub-organizations within your organization. Create sub-organizations to represent different business environments within your company. For example, you might create separate sub-organizations to represent your development, testing, and production environments.
When you create a sub-organization, the organization that you use to create a sub-organization becomes the parent organization. Each sub-organization can have only one parent, and it cannot contain another sub-organization.
The Organization Hierarchy license controls the number of sub-organizations that you can create. To increase this number, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
Creating sub-organizations provides the following advantages:
You can manage sub-organization licenses individually or you can automatically synchronize them with the parent organization licenses.
Each sub-organization inherits all feature, connector, and custom licenses from the parent organization except for the Organization Hierarchy license and bundle licenses.
When you manage licenses individually, administrators for the parent organization can disable, enable, and modify the expiration dates for the licenses that the sub-organizations inherit. They configure the licenses separately for each sub-organization. Therefore, disabling a license in one sub-organization does not disable the license in other sub-organizations.
Alternatively, if you have the appropriate license, you can automatically synchronize sub-organization licenses with the parent organization. When this license is enabled, each time a license is changed in the parent organization, all sub-organizations inherit the license change.
You can manage users and assets separately.
Each sub-organization has its own set of users and assets.
Users whom you create in a sub-organization are unique to the sub-organization. They cannot log in to the parent organization or to other sub-organizations. Only administrators in the parent organization and users in the parent organization that have sub-organization access privileges can access the parent organization and all sub-organizations.
Assets such as mappings and tasks are also unique within an organization. Assets are not shared among sub-organizations or between the parent organization and any sub-organization. If you want to migrate an asset between organizations, export the asset from one organization and import it into a different organization.
You can share runtime environments.
Administrators in the parent organization can share Secure Agent groups with the sub-organizations. When you share Secure Agent groups, users in the sub-organizations can run tasks on the Secure Agents within the group.
However, Mass Ingestion Databases does not support Secure Agent groups. Users of a parent organization or sub-organization can use only a Secure Agent that belongs to that organization or sub-organization. Users of a sub-organization cannot use a Secure Agent that belongs to the parent organization.
You can switch between organizations without logging in to each one.
Users in the parent organization that have privileges to view sub-organizations can switch between organizations without logging out and logging back in to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
Sub-organizations example
You need separate environments for synchronization task development, testing, and production to ensure that the tasks are tested before they are run in the production environment.
Log in to the parent organization as an administrator and create a sub-organization for task development, a sub-organization for testing, and a sub-organization for production. Add users to the sub-organizations, and ensure that the Data Synchronization license is enabled for each organization.
When task development is complete, export the tasks from the development sub-organization, and then log in to the testing sub-organization and import the tasks. When testing is complete, export the tasks from the testing sub-organization, and then log in to the production sub-organization and import the tasks.
Adding a sub-organization
To add a sub-organization, you can either create a new sub-organization or link existing organizations.
You can add a sub-organization in either of the following ways:
Create a sub-organization.
Log in to the organization that you want to be the parent organization and create a sub-organization. The new sub-organization is automatically linked to the parent organization.
Link existing organizations.
The organization that you link from becomes the parent organization and the organization that you link to becomes a sub-organization.
Creating a sub-organization
The administrator of a parent organization can create a sub-organization.
1Log in to the organization that you want to be the parent organization.
2Open Administrator and select Organization.
3Open the Sub-Organizations page and click New Sub-Organization.
4Enter the properties for the sub-organization and click Save.
After you create a sub-organization, verify the licenses, and configure runtime environments, user accounts, and connections so that other people can use it.
Linking organizations
You can create a sub-organization by linking existing organizations. The organization that you link from becomes the parent organization and the organization that you link to becomes a sub-organization.
Before you link an organization, you need the organization ID for the organization that you want to link. You can find this information on the Organization page.
Note: If you link a sub-organization that has a license that the parent organization does not have, then the sub-organization loses the license.
You can link an organization if all of the following conditions apply:
•You have a user account with the organization.
•The organization is not the parent of another organization or a sub-organization of another organization.
•You are the administrator of the parent organization with the Organization Hierarchy license.
•The organization that you want to link as a sub-organization does not have the Organization Hierarchy license.
You can later unlink the organizations.
To link organizations:
1Log in to the organization that you want to be the parent organization.
2Open Administrator and select Organization.
3Open the Sub-Organizations page and click Link Sub-Organization.
4In the Link Sub-Organization dialog box, enter the following information:
- The organization ID for the organization you want to link.
- The user name and password of an administrator in the organization that you want to set up as a sub-organization.
5Click Link Sub-Organization to link the organization.
The organization displays on the Sub-Organizations page.
Removing a sub-organization
To remove a sub-organization, you can unlink organizations or delete the sub-organization.
You can remove a sub-organization in either of the following ways:
Unlink an existing sub-organization from its parent organization.
An unlinked sub-organization becomes a stand-alone organization. You can link it to a different parent organization or re-link it to the original parent organization. If you obtain the Organization Hierarchy license for the unlinked organization, you can make it the parent organization for a different sub-organization.
Delete the sub-organization.
When you delete an organization, you delete all of the assets and data associated with the organization.
Unlinking a sub-organization
You can unlink a sub-organization from your parent organization. After you unlink an organization, update the unlinked organization with the required licenses unless you plan to link it to a different parent organization.
You can unlink a sub-organization if all of the following conditions apply:
•You have an administrator account with the sub-organization you want to unlink.
•You are an administrator of the parent organization with the Organization Hierarchy license.
•No asset in the sub-organization that you want to unlink uses a shared Secure Agent group as the runtime environment. If any asset in the sub-organization uses a shared Secure Agent group as the runtime environment, update the asset to use a different runtime environment before you unlink the sub-organization.
Note: This condition does not apply to Mass Ingestion Databases because Mass Ingestion Databases does not support shared runtime environments.
To unlink a sub-organization:
1Log in to the parent organization.
2Open Administrator and select Organization.
3Open the Sub-Organizations page.
4Expand the Actions menu for the sub-organization that you want to unlink and select Unlink.
5In the Unlink dialog box, enter the user name and password of a user in the sub-organization with the Admin role.
6Click Unlink.
The sub-organization is no longer linked to the parent organization.
Deleting a sub-organization
You can delete a sub-organization. When you delete a sub-organization, you delete all of the associated data.
You can delete a sub-organization if you are the administrator of the parent organization.
1Log in to the parent organization.
2Open Administrator and select Organization.
3Open the Sub-organizations page.
4Expand the Actions menu for the sub-organization that you want to unlink and select Delete.
Disabling or enabling a sub-organization
If you are the administrator for a parent organization, you can disable or enable a sub-organization.
When you create a sub-organization, the sub-organization is enabled by default. You might want to disable a sub-organization if you have a separate license agreement with the sub-organization and the license agreement expires. You can re-enable the sub-organization after you disable it.
You can disable or enable a sub-organization even if the sub-organization administrator blocks parent organization access to the sub-organization.
You can perform the following actions:
Disable a sub-organization
When you disable a sub-organization, the organization exists, but sub-organization users cannot log in to the sub-organization or access it through the REST API. Scheduled jobs in the sub-organization do not run.
Enable a sub-organization
When you enable a sub-organization, sub-organization users can log in to the sub-organization and access assets and perform tasks based on their user roles. Users with the appropriate privileges can access the sub-organization through the REST API. Scheduled jobs resume according to their schedules.
Disable or enable a sub-organization on the Sub-Organizations tab of the Organizations page. In the Actions menu for the sub-organization, select Disable or Enable.
Switching to a different organization
If you are an administrator in a parent organization or a user in a parent organization that has privileges to view sub-organizations, you can switch among organizations. You do not have to log out and log back in to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
To switch to a different organization:
From the Organization menu in the upper right corner, select the organization that you want to view.
Denying parent organization access to a sub-organization
If you are the administrator for a sub-organization, you can deny parent organization access to the sub-organization.
When you deny access to the sub-organization, users in the parent organization cannot switch from the parent organization to the sub-organization. Users in the parent organization with the appropriate privileges can make only the following changes to the sub-organization:
•Enable and disable the sub-organization
•Update the sub-organization licenses
•Edit the sub-organization properties such as the organization description and CLAIRE recommendation preferences
To deny parent organization access to the sub-organization, log in to the sub-organization as an administrator. On the Organization page, enable the Deny parent organization access to this sub-organization option.
Add-on connectors in sub-organizations
To use an add-on connector in a sub-organizations, you must install the connector in the parent organization. You cannot install add-on connectors in a sub-organization.
Sub-organizations inherit all connector licenses from the parent organization. If a sub-organization should not use a specific connector, disable the connector license for the sub-organization. For more information about editing and disabling licenses for a sub-organization, see Editing sub-organization licenses.
Exporting and importing assets in sub-organizations
Export and import assets in a sub-organization in the following ways:
•Log in to the sub-organization and export or import assets from within the sub-organization.
•Parent organization administrators can log in to the parent organization, switch to the sub-organization, and import or export Data Integration assets.
From the Organization menu in the upper right corner, select the organization that you want to view.