The November 2024 release of Metadata Command Center includes the following new features and enhancements.
Metadata access control
This release 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. As an administrator, you can define access policies in Metadata Command Center that allow you to have greater control over:
•The assets that users can interact with.
•Individual aspects of an asset, providing different levels of access to different users.
•The assets for which users can assume stakeholder responsibilities.
Note: After you upgrade to the November 2024 version, Data Governance and Catalog and Data Marketplace will continue to work the same as the previous version. However, privileges and permissions for all assets and users in your organization that are defined in Administrator will be converted to access policies in Metadata Command Center. Administrators need to review the new access policies in Metadata Command Center when the upgrade is complete.
For information about metadata access control, see Access control.
New catalog sources
This release includes the following new catalog sources:
•Oracle Data Integrator
•SAP Datasphere (Preview)
•SAP Analytics Cloud (Preview)
•SAS Base Programs
To enable and configure this catalog source, you need assistance from Informatica Professional Services. For more information, contact your account representative.
You can now link catalog sources and generate lineage automatically with CLAIRE. You can choose to automatically accept CLAIRE-generated lineage recommendations or manually accept them. CLAIRE-generated lineage recommendations are automatically accepted based on a threshold limit.
Stakeholders of the source and target catalog sources can reject the auto-accepted and manually accepted catalog source links generated by CLAIRE in Data Governance and Catalog.
Note: You can generate lineage automatically with CLAIRE only if your organization administrator allows the use of CLAIRE generative AI services.
Configure external secrets manager authentication for data profiling and data quality jobs
You can configure the following catalog sources to run data profiling and data quality jobs using Azure Key Vault authentication:
•Google Cloud Storage
•JDBC
•Oracle
•PostgreSQL
•Microsoft Azure SQL Server
•Microsoft Azure Synapse
•MySQL
•MariaDB
For more information about running profiles on catalog sources, see Organization Administration.
Incremental metadata extraction
You can now run incremental metadata extraction jobs on the following catalog sources:
•Amazon S3
•Snowflake
A full metadata extraction extracts all objects from the source to the catalog. An incremental metadata extraction considers only the changed and new objects since the last successful catalog source job run. Incremental metadata extraction doesn’t remove deleted objects from the catalog and doesn’t extract metadata of code-based objects.
Synchronize metadata from Data Integration ELT mappings
The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services catalog source and IDMC metadata now synchronize metadata from ELT (Extract Load Transform) mappings in Data Integration.
For information about IDMC metadata, see IDMC Metadata.
For more information about the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services catalog source, see Extracted metadata.
Configure data observability events
You can add filters to specify the profiled data elements for which Data Governance and Catalog users receive data observability event notifications. Add filters to include or exclude specific metrics, specify the sensitivity of the anomaly detection algorithm, and choose detection rules to apply on the data. This configuration helps business users to receive event notifications for the data that are useful for their day-to-day operations.
The following image shows the configuration options for data observability:
You can view and manage notifications for all Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services services on the Notifications page. You can also specify the categories of notifications that you want to receive.
Note: If you upgrade other services to the November 2024 release while Metadata Command Center is on the October 2024 release, the read and unread status of notifications from other services might not reflect in Data Governance and Catalog and Metadata Command Center. After you upgrade Metadata Command Center to the November 2024 release, the status changes from other services will reflect correctly.
For more information about notifications, see Notifications.
