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Workday

You can use the Workday resource to collect metadata from assets in Workday.

Objects Extracted

The Workday resource extracts metadata from the following assets in a Workday data source:
Note: *Enterprise Data Catalog extracts the Workday Service metadata as an XSD schema. In the schema, an Entity represents the complex XML elements and the Property represents the simple XML elements.

Permissions to Configure the Resource

Make sure that you use a user account with Workday administrator privileges when you configure a Workday resource.

Prerequisites

If the proxy server used to connect to the data source is SSL enabled, you must download the proxy server certificates on the Informatica domain machine.

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 shows the connection properties that you must configure in the General tab for the resource:
Property
Description
Username
Username to access the Workday tenant. A Workday tenant represents a secure instance of the Workday software.
Password
Password to access the Workday tenant.
Tenant
URL of the of the Workday instance that you want to access.
Workday Domain
Name of the Workday domain that includes the Workday assets that you want to access. A domain in Workday represents a collection of related assets secured using a domain security policy. For example, a domain can include assets such as reports, data sources for the report, and properties of the data sources.
Connect through a proxy server
Proxy server to connect to the data source. Default is Disabled.
Proxy Host
Host name or IP address of the proxy server.
Proxy Port
Port number of the proxy server.
Proxy User Name
Required for authenticated proxy.
Authenticated user name to connect to the proxy server.
Proxy Password
Required for authenticated proxy.
Password for the authenticated user name.
The following table shows metadata extraction settings that you can configure in the Metadata Load Settings tab for the resource:
Property
Description
Enable Source Metadata
Extracts metadata from the data source.
Version
Version of the Workday Web Services API. Based on the version you select, the list of available Workday services changes.
Services
Workday services from which you want to extract metadata. A service in Workday represents a module that caters to a feature. For example, the feature to manage payroll related services might be provided by the Payroll module.
Import Business Objects, Data Sources, and Reports
Imports metadata related to business objects, data sources, and reports from the Workday data source.
Case Sensitive
Specifies that the resource is configured for case sensitivity. Select one of the following values:
  • - True. Select this check box to specify that the resource is configured as case sensitive.
  • - False. Clear this check box to specify that the resource is configured as case insensitive.
The default value is True.
Memory
Specifies the memory required to run the scanner job. Select one of the following values based on the data set size that you plan to import into the catalog:
  • - 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>. The key-value pair 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. The default value is 1.
Track Data Source Changes
Select the option to view metadata source change notifications in Enterprise Data Catalog.