A relationship between assets depicts how the assets relate to each another. In Data Governance and Catalog, you can use different types of relationships to connect business assets to each other and to relevant technical assets.
In Metadata Command Center, you can add new relationship types or modify or remove existing relationship types for assets that can be related to each other. You can't create a new relationship between assets that have no predefined relationship with one another. For more information about how assets relate to each other, see the Working With Assets help for Data Governance and Catalog.
Modifying relationship types
You can add, modify or remove the possible relationships between assets when the relationship is in a Draft state.
Define appropriate roles and select the Manage Custom Attributes feature for that role when you configure privileges for Metadata Command Center in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Administrator. For more information about feature privileges that the organization administrator can configure for user roles, see the Introduction and Getting Started help.
1On the Customize page, go to the Asset Customization tab, select an asset type, and go to the Relationships tab.
2On the Relationships tab, click the Action menu next to a relationship and select Edit.
3To add a new relationship type, click the Add icon in the Relationships field and enter a new value.
4To modify an existing relationship type, click the value that you want to modify in the Relationships field .
5To remove an existing relationship type, click the Delete icon next to the value that you want to remove from the Relationships field .
Note: When you remove existing relationship types, consider the following:
- If a relationship type is already being used in Data Governance and Catalog to describe the relationship between assets, you can't delete the relationship type until you remove the relationships.
- If only 1 relationship exists between assets, you can't delete the relationship.
6Click Save.
The draft version appears in the Published with draft available state.
Note: If you do not want to proceed with your changes, you can use the Discard icon to discard the draft version of the relationship. You can also perform this action from the Action menu on the Asset Customization > Relationships tab of the Customize page. On the Asset Customization > Relationships tab, you can also discard the draft version of multiple relationships. To do this, select the relationships for which you want to discard the draft state and click Discard button from the Action menu.
7Click Publish to publish your changes.
The system initiates the Association Publish job to publish your changes. If another job to create, modify or delete an attribute or relationship is active, the system displays an error. To publish your changes, you must wait for the active job to be completed. You can click View Status to monitor the status of the job on the Job Monitoring Overview page.
Note: The system displays an error even if the previous job had failed. At this stage, you must resolve the errors and reinitiate the previous job and await its completion before you can start your own job.
After the publishing is successful, the lifecycle state of the relationship changes from Draft to Published.
8After the publish job is completed, ensure that you refresh the web page on your browser to view your changes to the relationship type.
After your changes are published, all the relationship types are automatically arranged in an alphabetical order.