The April 2025 release of Metadata Command Center includes the following important notices.
Preview initiated
Catalog sources
Effective in the April 2025 release, the Informatica Developer catalog source is available for preview.
Note: Preview functionality is supported for evaluation purposes but is unwarranted and is not supported in production environments or any environment that you plan to push to production. Informatica intends to include the preview functionality in an upcoming release for production use, but might choose not to in accordance with changing market or technical circumstances. For more information, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
Deprecation initiated
Effective in the April 2025 release, the usage of Application Integration processes to configure workflows in Metadata Command Center is deprecated.
Deprecated functionality is supported, but Informatica intends to drop support in a future release. Informatica requests that you transition to different functionality before the functionality is dropped.
As part of the April 2025 release, Informatica leverages the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) infrastructure allowing you to design multi-step approval workflows in Metadata Command Center.
Informatica will continue to support the existing workflow tickets and tasks that are available in Data Governance and Catalog until the next major release.
You can perform the following tasks until the next major release:
•Update and close tickets that were created using the Application Integration workflows.
•Continue to use events that were configured with the Application Integration workflows.
•View new workflow tasks in the Tasks Inbox page and old workflow tasks in the Workflow Inbox page in Data Governance and Catalog. Notifications from the previous Application Integration workflows will take you to the Workflow Inbox page and new workflow notifications will take you to the new Tasks Inbox page.
For more information about how to configure new workflows, see Configure workflows.
Post-upgrade tasks
Perform the following tasks after you upgrade to the April 2025 release:
Microsoft Azure Data Factory
If you previously extracted metadata from a Microsoft Azure Data Factory source system, set the Metadata Change Option to Delete and then rerun the catalog source job. This is to prevent old and new hierarchies from overlapping and to ensure that new objects appear as expected in Data Governance and Catalog.
After you rerun the catalog source job, previously existing objects that are not present in the new hierarchy get deleted from the catalog along with their enrichments.