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Creating a Single Data Object Profile in Informatica Developer

You can create a single data object profile for one or more columns in a data object and store the profile object in the Model repository.
    1. In the Object Explorer view, select the data object you want to profile.
    2. Click File > New > Profile to open the profile wizard.
    3. Select Profile and click Next.
    4. Enter a name for the profile and verify the project location. If required, browse to a new location.
    5. Optionally, enter a text description of the profile.
    6. Verify that the name of the data object you selected appears in the Data Objects section.
    7. Click Next.
    8. Configure the profile operations that you want to perform. You can configure the following operations:
    Note: To enable a profile operation, select Enabled as part of the "Run Profile" action for that operation. Column profiling is enabled by default.
    9. Review the options for your profile.
    You can edit the column selection for all profile types. Review the filter and sampling options for column profiles. You can review the inference options for primary key, functional dependency, and data domain discovery. You can also review data domain selection for data domain discovery.
    10. Review the drill-down options, and edit them if necessary. By default, the Enable Row Drilldown option is selected. You can edit drill-down options for column profiles. The options also determine whether drill-down operations read from the data source or from staged data, and whether the profile stores result data from previous profile runs.
    11. In the Run Settings section, choose a validation environment. Choose Native or Hadoop as the validation environment. You can choose Native, Blaze or Spark as the run-time environment. After you choose Blaze or Spark, you can select a Hadoop connection.
    12. Click Finish.