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Business Glossary

Business Glossary contains online glossaries of business terms and policies that define important concepts within an organization. Configure a Business Glossary Classification resource type to extract metadata from Business Glossary.

Objects Extracted

The Business Glossary resource extracts metadata from the following assets:

Basic Information

The General tab includes the following basic information about the resource:
Information
Description
Name
The name of the resource.
Description
The description of the resource.
Resource type
The type of the resource.
Execute On
You can choose to execute on the default catalog server or offline.

Resource Connection Properties

The following table describes the connection properties for the Business Glossary Classification resource:
Property
Description
Username
Name of the user account used that connects to the Analyst tool.
Password
Password for the user account that connects to the Analyst tool.
Host
Name of the Analyst tool business glossary from which you want to extract metadata. Each resource can extract metadata from one business glossary.
Port
Port number on which the Analyst tool runs.
Namespace
Name of the security domain to which the Analyst tool user belongs.
If the domain uses LDAP authentication or Kerberos authentication, enter the security domain name. Otherwise, enter Native.
Enable Secure Communication
Enable secure communication from the Analyst tool to the Analyst Service.
Import Published Content Only
Select this option to specify that you want to import only the published content. If you do not select this option, Enterprise Data Catalog imports all content.
The following image shows sample connection properties on the General tab:
The image displays the connection properties for a Business Glossary resource.
The following table describes the Additional and Advanced properties for source metadata settings on the Metadata Load Settings tab:
Property
Description
Enable Source Metadata
Select to extract metadata from the data source.
Glossary
Name of the business glossary resource that you want to import.
Memory
Specify the memory value required to run a scanner job.
Specify one of the following memory values:
  • - 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
Custom 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.