Resource Type
A resource type represents the type of source system from where scanners extract metadata. A resource type identifies the required and optional metadata types that you need to configure for each resource. Examples of the resource type are Business Objects, Oracle, PowerCenter, and Teradata.
Each resource type has different properties that you need to configure when you create a resource. The properties include the connection properties and additional properties, such as resource owner and resource classification.
You can create the following types of resources:
- •Amazon Redshift
- •Amazon S3
- •Apache Atlas
- •Azure Microsoft SQL Server
- •Azure Microsoft SQL Data Warehouse
- •Azure Data Lake Store
- •Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- •Business Glossary Classification
- •Cloudera Navigator
- •Custom Lineage
- •Database Scripts
- •Erwin
- •File System
- •Google BigQuery
- •Hadoop File System (HDFS)
- •Hadoop Multi-Part File Handler
- •Hive
- •IBM Cognos
- •IBM DB2
- •IBM DB2 for z/OS
- •IBM Netezza
- •Informatica Axon
- •Informatica Cloud
- •Informatica Platform
- •JDBC
- •MDM
- •MicroStrategy
- •OneDrive
- •Oracle
- •PowerCenter
- •ProfileWarehouse
- •Qlikview
- •Salesforce
- •SAP Business Objects
- •SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)
- •SAP BW/4HANA
- •SAP S/4HANA
- •SAP R/3
- •SharePoint
- •SQL Server Integration Services
- •Sybase
- •Tableau Server
- •Teradata
- •Workday
To run a scan job on resource types, such as Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server, use the standard resource types available in Enterprise Data Catalog. Informatica recommends that you do not configure the JDBC resource type to fetch data from the supported standard metadata sources.
However, you can use the JDBC resource type when there is no standard connector to fetch metadata and perform data discovery from the following sources:
- •MySQL
- •i5/OS
- •Amazon Athena
- •Vertica
- •Postgres
- •Databricks Delta Tables
For more information about the JDBC resource configuration, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
For more information about configuring a resource, see the Enterprise Data Catalog Scanner Configuration Guide.