Enterprise Data Catalog
This section describes new Enterprise Data Catalog features in version 10.2.2.
Automatically Assign Business Title to a Column
Effective in version 10.2.2, Enterprise Data Catalog infers a business term as the business title for column assets. A business term with the confidence score of 80 percent or more is inferred as a business title of a column. The confidence score is calculated by an internal algorithm based on accepted business terms on data domains, column name similarity, and name similarity between the column and business term.
For more information, see the "Perform Asset Tasks" chapter in the Informatica 10.2.2 Enterprise Data Catalog User Guide.
User Collaboration on Assets
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can collaborate with other Enterprise Data Catalog users on assets. Collaboration on assets provides you the ability to interact with the other users, share insights about the assets, ask queries related to the assets, follow up on all the asset changes, and certify the assets.
You can collaborate on assets in the following ways:
- Follow assets
- You can follow assets to monitor asset changes in the catalog. Follow an asset to be informed about the changes that other users make to the asset, so that you can monitor the asset and take necessary actions.
- Rate and review asset
- You can rate and review assets based on a five-star scale in the catalog. Rate and review an asset to provide feedback about the asset based on different aspects of the asset, such as the quality, applicability, usability, and availability of the asset.
- Asset queries
You can ask questions about an asset if you want a better understanding about the asset in the catalog. Ask questions that are descriptive, exploratory, predictive, or causal in nature.
- Certify asset
- You can certify an asset to endorse it so that other users can use the asset as a trustworthy one over the assets that are not certified.
For more information, see the "User Collaboration on Assets" chapter in the Informatica 10.2.2 Enterprise Data Catalog Guide.
Create Enterprise Data Catalog Application Services Using the Installer
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can use the installer to create the Enterprise Data Catalog application services after you install Enterprise Data Catalog. You can use the installer if you had installed Enterprise Data Catalog without creating the application services.
For more information about using the installer to create the application services, see the Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog 10.2.2 Installation and Configuration Guide.
Custom Metadata Validation Utility
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can use a stand-alone Java-based Validation Command Line Utility to validate the syntax and semantics of custom metadata that you want to ingest in the catalog. Custom metadata represents metadata that you want to ingest from custom data sources for which Enterprise Data Catalog does not provide a resource.
For more information about using the utility, see the KB article How To: Validate Custom Metadata Before Ingesting it in the Catalog. Contact Informatica Global Customer Support for instructions to download the utility.
Change Notifications
Effective in version 10.2.2, Enterprise Data Catalog shows notifications when changes are made to assets that you follow. The notification types include application notifications, change email notification, and digest email notification.
For more information, see the "User Collaboration on Assets" chapter in the Informatica 10.2.2 Enterprise Data Catalog Guide.
Business Glossary Assignment Report
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can accept or reject multiple recommended business terms for a resource.
For more information, see the "Perform Asset Tasks" chapter in the Informatica 10.2.2 Enterprise Data Catalog Guide.
Operating System Profiles
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can choose an operating system profile if you do not have a default operating system profile. The Data Integration Service uses the operating system profile user credentials to perform data discovery. Data discovery includes column profiles and data domain discovery profiles.
For more information about using the operating system profiles in Enterprise Data Catalog, see the "Enterprise Data Catalog Concepts" chapter in the Informatica 10.2.2 Catalog Administrator Guide.
REST APIs
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can use the following Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog REST APIs:
- •Business Terms REST APIs. You can return, update, or delete an accepted, inferred, or rejected business term.
- •Catalog Events REST APIs. You can access, update, or delete the user configuration, email configuration, and user subscriptions.
- •Object Certification APIs. You can list, update, and delete the certification properties for an object.
- •Object Comments APIs. You can list, create, update, and delete comments, replies, and votes for a data object.
- •Object Reviews APIs. You can list, create, update, and delete reviews, ratings, and votes for a review.
For more information about the REST APIs, see the Informatica 10.2 .2 Enterprise Data Catalog REST API Reference.
Source Metadata and Data Profile Filter
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can use the source metadata filter and data profile filter to specify source tables and views in a resource run. When you use these filters, Enterprise Data Catalog extracts source metadata and profile metadata from specific tables and views.
For more information about the source metadata and data profile filter, see the "Managing Resources" chapter in the Informatica 10.2.2 Catalog Administrator Guide.
Scanner Utility
Effective in version 10.2.2, Informatica provides a standalone scanner utility that you can use to extract metadata from offline and inaccessible resources. The utility contains a script that you need to run along with the associated commands in a sequence.
For more information about the standalone scanner utility, see the "Metadata Extraction from Offline and Inaccessible Resources" appendix in the Informatica 10.2.2 Catalog Administrator Guide.
Resource Types
Effective in version 10.2.2, you can create resources for the following data source types:
- Google BigQuery
You can extract metadata, relationship, and lineage information from the following assets in a Google BigQuery data source:
- - Project
- - Dataset
- - Table
- - View
For more information about configuring a Google BigQuery data source, see the Informatica 10.2.2 Catalog Administrator Guide.
- Workday
You can extract metadata, relationship, and lineage information from the following assets in a Workday data source:
- - Service
- - Entity
- - Report
- - Operation
- - Data source
- - Property
- - Business objects
For more information about configuring a Workday data source, see the Informatica 10.2.2 Catalog Administrator Guide.