Before you create a catalog source, ensure that you have the information required to connect to the source system.
Perform the following tasks:
•Assign the required permissions.
•Create a communication arrangement in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud application:
1Request a personal access token from Informatica Global Customer Support to access the Informatica GitHub repository.
2In the SAP S/4HANA Cloud gCTS application:
aConnect to https://github.com/infadistrornd/cdgc-sap-s4hanacloud-scanner-components-prod.git GitHub repository.
bDownload the source code from the repository to your local environment.
cActivate the ODATA services through the ZINFA_SB_METADATA service binding.
For more information about connecting to a repository in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud gCTS application, see the SAP S/4HANA Cloud documentation.
3In the SAP S/4HANA Cloud application:
▪ Use the ZINFA_CS_METADATA communication scenario provided by Informatica in the source code to create a communication arrangement.
For more information about creating a communication arrangement, see the SAP S/4HANA Cloud documentation.
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 for metadata extraction
To extract SAP S/4HANA Cloud metadata, you need account access and permissions to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud deployment and the source systems that SAP S/4HANA Cloud connects to.
Get the SAP S/4HANA Cloud source information
Get the values of the connection properties that you need to configure from the communication arrangement that you created in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud application.
Note: You don't need to create a connection object in Administrator. You provide connection information when you configure the catalog source.
The following table describes the properties that you need:
Property
Description
URL
The URL to connect to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud instance.
User Name
The user name used in the communication arrangement.
Password
The password associated with the user name used in the communication arrangement.