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Connect to Google Cloud Storage V2

Let's configure the Google Cloud Storage V2 connection properties to connect to Google Cloud Storage.

Before you begin

Before you configure the Google Cloud Storage V2 Connector, complete the following prerequisite tasks:
  1. 1Ensure that you have a Google service account to access Google Cloud Storage.
  2. 2Ensure that you have the client_email, project_id, and private_key values for the service account. You will need to enter these details when you create a Google Cloud Storage V2 connection.
  3. 3Ensure that you have enabled the Google Cloud Storage JSON API for your service account. Google Cloud Storage V2 Connector uses the Google API to integrate with Google Cloud Storage.
  4. 4Verify that you have read and write access to the Google Cloud Storage bucket that contains the source file and target file.
  5. 5When you read data from or write data to a Google Cloud Storage file in a mapping, you must have the required permissions to run the mapping successfully.
  6. 6To use the Informatica Encryption method, perform the following tasks:

Connection details

The following table describes the Google Cloud Storage V2 connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Google Cloud Storage V2
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
Service Account ID
The client_email value from the Google service account key JSON file.
Service Account Key
The private_key value from the Google service account key JSON file.
Project ID
The project_id value from the Google service account key JSON file.
If you have created multiple projects with the same service account, enter the ID of the project that contains the dataset that you want to connect to.
Optimize Object Metadata Import
Optimizes the import of metadata for the selected object without parsing other objects, folders, or sub-folders available in the bucket.
Directly importing metadata for the selected object can improve performance by reducing the overhead and time taken to parse each object available in the bucket.
Default is not selected.

Advanced settings

The following table describes the advanced connection properties:
Property
Description
Private Key ID
The private_key_id value from the Google service account key JSON file.
Client ID
The client_id value from the Google service account key JSON file.
Is Encrypted File
Specifies whether a file is encrypted. Select this option when you import an encrypted file from Google Cloud Storage.
Default is not selected.
This property applies only to mappings in advanced mode.
Bucket Name
The Google Cloud Storage bucket name that you want to connect to.
When you select a source object or target object in a mapping, the Package Explorer lists files and folders available in the specified Google Cloud Storage bucket.
If you do not specify a bucket name, you can select a bucket from the Package Explorer to select a source or target object.