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Administration of Google Cloud Storage Connector

Before you use Google Cloud Storage Connector, you must complete the following prerequisite tasks:
    1. Create a Google account to access Google Cloud Storage.
    2. In the Credentials page, navigate to the APIs and auth section, and create a service account and key. You will need to enter the service account ID and service account key when you create a Google Cloud Storage connection in Informatica Cloud.
    The following image shows the Credentials page where you can create the service account and key:
    The image shows the Credentials page where you can create a service account and obtain a service account key.
    3. In the Dashboards page of the Google API Console, https://console.developers.google.com/, enable the Google Cloud Storage JSON API. Google Cloud Storage Connector uses the Google API to integrate with Google Cloud Storage.
    The following image shows the Dashboard page where you can enable the API:
    The image shows the Dashboard page where you can enable the Google APIs.
    4. Create a project, bucket, and the target file to which you want to write data from Informatica Cloud. You will need to enter the project ID, and the path and file name of the target when you create tasks and mappings in Informatica Cloud.
    5. Verify that you have write access to the Google Cloud Storage bucket that contains the target file.