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Running a Profile

Run a profile to analyze a data source for content and structure and select columns and rules for drill down. You can drill down on live or staged data for columns and rules. You can run a profile only on a column or rule without running the profile on all the source columns after the initial profile run.
    1. In the Library workspace, select the project or folder that contains the profile in the Projects pane, or select the profile in the Assets pane.
    2. Click Actions > Open.
    The summary view appears in the Discovery workspace.
    3. Click Actions > Run Profile.
    The Analyst tool performs a profile run and displays the profile results in summary view.
    You can view the profile summary and mapping log files to get more information about the tasks performed by the Analyst tool.
    Note: If you ran the profile using an operating system profile, the summary log appears in the log directory configured for the Data Integration Service and the mapping log appears in the log directory configured for the operating system profile.