You can perform a search against the data catalog and discover catalog assets. You can use the assets that you discover as sources, targets, and lookup objects in mappings and as sources in synchronization and file ingestion and replication tasks.
Use data catalog discovery to find objects in the catalog that you can use in the following types of Data Integration assets:
•Mappings. Discover tables, views, and delimited flat files to use as sources, targets, or lookup objects in new mappings or in mappings that you currently have open in Data Integration.
•Synchronization tasks. Discover tables, views, and delimited flat files to use as sources in new synchronization tasks.
•File ingestion and replication tasks. You can discover Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Hadoop Files objects to use as sources in file ingestion and replication tasks.
Note: Before you can use data catalog discovery, your organization administrator must configure the Enterprise Data Catalog integration properties on the Organization page in Administrator. For more information about configuring Enterprise Data Catalog integration properties, see the Administrator help.
You can't use data catalog discovery to find source, target, or lookup objects for mappings in SQL ELT mode.