Before you create a catalog source, ensure that you have the information required to connect to the source system.
Complete the following prerequisite tasks:
•Ensure that you have the required permissions.
•Associate mappings with mapping tasks.
•Ensure that the mapping tasks were run at least once in the last 18 months. This ensures that the required metadata is available in the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services repository.
Note: You can ignore the status of the mapping task.
Verify permissions
To extract metadata and to configure other capabilities that a catalog source might include, you need account access and permissions on the source system. The permissions required might vary depending on the capability.
Permissions to extract metadata
Ensure that you have the required permissions to enable metadata extraction.
To access Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services assets, verify you have read permissions on the assets.
To access Master Data Management SaaS assets, verify that you have the following permissions:
•Read access for the Business Entities asset type in the MDM Configuration service.
•Enable Asset - export feature in the Administrator service.
Permissions to run data classification
You can perform data classification with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.
Permissions to run glossary association
You can perform glossary association with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.
Get Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services source information
Before you configure the catalog source, ask the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services administrator for values of connection properties that you need to configure the catalog source.
You don't need to create a connection object for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. You provide this information when you configure the catalog source.
The following table describes the properties that you need:
Property
Description
IICS URL
The URL to access Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. For example,
http(s)://<IICS_Base_URL>/identity-service/home
IICS User
The user name to connect to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.