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About the IBM Netezza catalog source

You can use the IBM Netezza catalog source to extract metadata from an IBM Netezza source system.
IBM Netezza is a data warehouse system that integrates the database, server, and storage to run and manage complex data warehouse tasks. You can create and configure an IBM Netezza catalog source to extract metadata from an IBM Netezza database.

Extracted metadata

You can use the IBM Netezza catalog source to extract metadata from an IBM Netezza database.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from an IBM Netezza source system:

Data profiling for IBM Netezza objects

Configure data profiling to run profiles on the metadata extracted from an IBM Netezza source system. You can view the profiling statistics in Data Governance and Catalog.
You can run data profiles on the following objects:
For information about the data types on which data profiling tasks run, see Netezza Connector in Data Integration Connectors.

Compatible connectors

Before you configure an IBM Netezza catalog source, you must connect to the IBM Netezza source system.
Use the Netezza connector to connect to the IBM Netezza source system.
For information about configuring a connection, see Connections.