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MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application software. The MicroStrategy platform supports interactive dashboards, scorecards, highly formatted reports, ad hoc query, thresholds and alerts, and automated report distribution.

Objects Extracted

Enterprise Data Catalog extracts metadata from reports in a MicroStrategy Business Intelligence resource.
You can view the following assets in the catalog for a MicroStrategy Business Intelligence resource:

Permissions to Configure the Resource

Configure the following administration privileges for the MicroStrategy project user account for MicroStrategy version 7.x, and the SecurityRole for MicroStartegy version 9.x or later:

Resource Connection Properties

The General tab includes the following properties:
Property
Description
Agent URL
URL to the Enterprise Data Catalog agent that runs on a Microsoft Windows Server.
Note: Make sure that you specify the URL in the following format: http://<hostname>:<connector_port>/MIMBWebServices
Version
Select the version of MicroStrategy from the drop-down list. You can select the Auto detect option if you want Enterprise Data Catalog to automatically detect the version of the MicroStrategy resource.
Project Source
Name of the MicroStrategy project source to which you want to connect.
Login User
The user name used to connect to the project source.
Login Password
The password associated with the user name.
Default Language
Specify the language to be used while importing metadata from the resource.
Import Schema Only
Select this option to import the project schema without the reports and documents.
Incremental import
Load changes since the previous resource load or load complete metadata.
  • - Select the option to load recent changes only.
  • - Clear the option to perform a complete load of the metadata.
Data Model Tables Design Level
Select one of the following options to specify the design for the imported tables:
  • - Physical: the imported tables appear in the physical view of the model.
  • - Logical and Physical: the imported tables appear in the logical and physical view of the model.
Detailed Lineage
Select to extract and ingest metadata related to transformation logic for assets that include transformations. A transformation indicates generation, modification, or passage of data between source and target connections. A transformation logic displays the mappings or data flow relation types between source assets and target assets related to the asset you select in Enterprise Data Catalog.
Project(s)
Select the names of the projects to which you want to connect from the project source.
Auto Assign Connections
Specifies to automatically assign the connection.
The Metadata Load Settings tab includes the following properties:
Property
Description
Enable Source Metadata
Select to extract metadata from the data source.
Memory
Specifies the memory required to run the scanner job. Select one of the following values based on the data set size imported:
  • - Low
  • - Medium
  • - High
Note: For more information about the memory values, see the Tuning Enterprise Data Catalog Performance article on How To-Library Articles tab in the Informatica Doc Portal
JVM Options
JVM parameters that you can set to configure scanner container. Use the following arguments to configure the parameters:
  • - -Dscannerloglevel=<DEBUG/INFO/ERROR>. Changes the log level of scanner to values, such as DEBUG, ERROR, or INFO. Default value is INFO.
  • - -Dscanner.container.core=<No. of core>. Increases the core for the scanner container. The value should be a number.
  • - -Dscanner.yarn.app.environment=<key=value>. Key pair value that you need to set in the Yarn environment. Use a comma to separate the key pair value.
  • - -Dscanner.pmem.enabled.container.memory.jvm.memory.ratio=<1.0/2.0>. Increases the scanner container memory when pmem is enabled. Default value is 1.
Track Data Source Changes
View metadata source change notifications in Enterprise Data Catalog.