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New features and enhancements

The November 2024 release of Data Marketplace includes the following new features and enhancements.
Watch the following What's New video to learn about the new features and enhancements in the November 2024 release:
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Metadata access control

This release of Metadata Command Center introduces metadata access control, which provides options for enhanced control over how users interact with the assets in Data Governance and Catalog and Data Marketplace.
Metadata access control is the practice of managing the level of user access to assets in your organization through a set of rules called access policies. As an Administrator, you can use metadata access control to define and implement access policies in Metadata Command Center that restrict a user's access to metadata if necessary. This ensures that users can only view the data and perform the actions you deem appropriate. You can hide segments of data in Data Marketplace by configuring asset groups for categories. The asset group of a category is inherited down the hierarchy, so data collections within the category will also be hidden from those not associated to the asset group. For these users, the system will obfuscate or hide any mentions of the asset in the Data Marketplace interface.
For example, if you have data collections that contain sensitive information such as a possible but incomplete acquisition your company is planning to make, you may want to allow only your Mergers and Acquisitions team to view them. To accomplish this, you can create a separate category called ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’ and add the relevant data collections to this category. After this, you can apply the relevant metadata access controls to the category to hide it from the view of unauthorized users.
Note: After your Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services POD is upgraded, Data Marketplace will continue to work the same as the previous version.
For information about metadata access control, see Access control.

Stakeholder and user roles

Stakeholder roles are a set of permissions and privileges that you can assign to users and groups on a specific Data Marketplace asset, such as a category or a data collection. Unlike with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services user roles that allow users to perform actions across Data Marketplace, a user with a stakeholder role can only perform actions on the assets on which they are assigned as a stakeholder.
For example, a user that is assigned with the Data Marketplace Administrator user role can perform various actions such as create, modify or delete data assets across Data Marketplace. On the other hand, a user that is assigned as a stakeholder of a category with the Category Owner stakeholder role can only manage their respective category and the subcategories and data collections within it.
To simplify your experience, the following changes have been made:
The following shows the Add Stakeholders dialog box:
Image depicting the Add Stakeholders dialog box.
For more information about stakeholder roles, see Permissions and privileges for Data Marketplace.

Support for custom user roles

You can now assign custom roles that you create in Administrator to Data Marketplace users in your organization. Custom roles allow you to refine user permissions and privileges based on the needs of your organization.
For example, if you want to verify that the orders for data collections comply with the policies defined for your organization, you can create a custom role called Auditor that has only read permission on data collections, orders, consumer accesses and data assets but doesn't have permissions to modify or delete any data.
The following shows the New Role page in the Administrator:
Image depicting the New Role in the Administrator. The Features tab for the custom role Segement Lead is open.
For more information about custom roles, see Custom roles.

Improved user experience

Viewing a category
To improve your category browsing experience, the contents of a category page are now reorganized into the following tabs on a category page:
The following shows a category page:
Image depicting the Summary tab of a category.
For more information about categories, see Categories.
Creating new categories and data collections
When you try to create a category or a data collection, Data Marketplace now opens a page. The new page simplifies the stakeholder assignment experience for the category or the data collection.
The following shows the New Category page:
Image depicting the New Category page.
The following shows the New Data Collection page:
Image depicting the New Data Collection page.
Ordering data collections
On the Request Details page of the order wizard, the Usage Context menu now displays certified uses in a separate section. This allows you to easily identify the certified uses of the data collection.
Furthermore, while ordering a data collection for which no certified uses are configured, the system no longer displays a warning message when you specify a usage context on the Request Details page of the order wizard.
The following shows the Request Details page of the order wizard:
Image depicting the Request Details page of the order wizard. The certified uses in the Usage Context menu are highlighted.
For more information about how you can order a data collection, see Ordering data collections.
Recent data collections on the Home page and Category page
On the Home page and on a category page, the Recent Data Collections carousel now displays the most recently created data collections.
Earlier, the Recent Data Collections carousel displayed the most recently modified data collections.
The following shows the Recent Data Collections carousel on the Data Collection tab of a category:
Image depicting the Data Collections tab of a category page. The most recently created data collections are highlighted.
For more information, see Home page and Categories.

Support for additional Data Governance and Catalog asset types

On the Setup > Integration page, you can now import several new assets from Data Governance and Catalog. The following list shows the assets that you can now import:
For more information, see Enrich data collections with Data Governance and Catalog assets.

REST API enhancements

Delete orders, data collection requests and consumer accesses
You can now use an API call to delete the following objects:
For more information, see Manage requests, orders and consumer accesses.
Invoke an API without using Application Integration
You can now authenticate yourself with JSON Web token authentication to invoke an API that utilizes the GET method.
For more information, see Using JWT Authentication.
Use GET APIs to retrieve more results per page
When you invoke an API that utilizes the GET method, you can now configure the limit parameter to display a maximum of 100 results per page.