Creating an Enterprise Discovery Profile in Informatica Developer
Creating an Enterprise Discovery Profile in Informatica Developer
You can create a profile on multiple data sources under multiple connections. The Developer tool creates individual profile tasks for each source.
In the
Object Explorer
view, select multiple data objects you want to run a profile on.
Click
File > New > Profile
to open the profile wizard.
Select
Enterprise Discovery Profile
and click
Next
.
Enter a name for the profile and verify the project location. If required, browse to a new location.
Verify that the name of the data objects you selected appears within the
Data Objects
section. Click
Choose
to select more data objects, if required.
Click
Next
.
The
Add Resources to Profile Definition
pane appears. You can select multiple, external relational connections and data sources from this pane.
Click
Choose
to open the
Select Resources
dialog box.
The
Resources
pane lists all the internal and external connections and data objects under the Informatica domain.
Click
OK
to close the dialog box.
Click
Next
.
Configure the profile types that you want to run. You can configure the following profile types:
Data domain discovery
Column profile
Primary key profile
Foreign key profile
Select
Enabled as part of "Run Enterprise Discovery Profile" action
for the profile types that you want to run as part of the enterprise discovery profile. Column profiling is enabled by default.
Review the options for the profile.
You can edit the sampling options for column profiles. You can also edit the inference options for data domain, primary key, and foreign key profiles.
Select
Create profiles
.
The Developer tool creates profiles for each individual data source.
Select
Run enterprise discovery profile on finish
to run the profile when you complete the profile configuration. If you enabled all the profiling operations, the Developer tool runs column, data domain, and primary key profiles on all selected data sources. Then, the Developer tool runs a foreign key profile across all the data sources.
Click
Finish
.
After you run an enterprise discovery profile, you need to refresh the Model Repository Service before viewing the results. This step is required as the import of metadata for external connections happens in the Model repository. You need to refresh the Model Repository Service so that the Developer tool reflects the changes to the Model repository.
