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  1. Preface
  2. Part 1: Version 10.5.4
  3. Part 2: Version 10.5.3 - 10.5.3.x
  4. Part 3: Version 10.5.2 - 10.5.2.1.x
  5. Part 4: Version 10.5.1 - 10.5.1.1
  6. Part 5: Versions 10.5 - 10.5.0.1
  7. Part 6: Versions 10.4.1 - 10.4.1.3
  8. Part 7: Versions 10.4 - 10.4.0.2
  9. Part 8: Versions 10.2.2 - 10.2.2 HotFix 1
  10. Part 9: Version 10.2.1
  11. Part 10: Version 10.2 - 10.2 HotFix 2

What's New and Changed (10.5.4)

What's New and Changed (10.5.4)

Version 10.5.3.0.1

Version 10.5.3.0.1

Read this section to learn about support changes, and what's new and changed for Enterprise Data Catalog in version 10.5.3.0.1.

Support Changes

Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server
MetaDex includes version 10.2.1 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. Previously, MetaDex included version 9.4.1.
For more information, see the
MetaDex Scanners Administrator Guide
.

Technical Preview Initiated

Effective in version 10.5.3.0.1, Informatica includes the following functionality for technical preview:
The Databricks scanner generates lineage from Databricks Delta Lake
You can extract metadata from Databricks Delta Lake assets, such as tables and views. You can scan the assets with the Databricks to EDC conversion path or the Advanced Database Objects to EDC conversion path. The Databricks Notebooks scanner functionality remains unchanged.
For more information, see the
MetaDex Scanner Configuration Guide
.
Technical preview functionality is supported for evaluation purposes but is unwarranted and is not supported in production environments or any environment that you plan to push to production. Informatica intends to include the preview functionality in an upcoming release for production use, but might choose not to in accordance with changing market or technical circumstances. For more information, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.

What's New

Password reset
An administrator can reset a password for internal source users.
For more information, see the
MetaDex Scanners Administrator Guide
.
IICS-CDI scanner includes mappings that read data from SAP tables
You can use the IICS-CDI MetaDex scanner to scan mappings that read data from SAP tables.
PostgreSQL tables in the IICS-CDI MetaDex scanner
You can include connections to PostgreSQL tables in the IICS-CDI MetaDex scanner.
Metadata Extractor works with Google BigQuery
You can run the Metadata Extractor to generate CSV files from Google BigQuery data.
The IBM InfoSphere DataStage scanner processes list loops in sequence jobs
You can set the dataStageProcessSequenceJobs parameter to true to process IBM InfoSphere DataStage sequence jobs that contain list loops.
The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) V2 scanner can scan mappings
You can use the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) V2 scanner to scan mappings that read data from or write data to Azure Data Warehouse tables.
The Oracle scanner analyzes Oracle SQL Loader scripts
You can extract metadata and lineage from Oracle SQL Loader scripts.
For more information, see the
MetaDex Scanner Configuration Guide
.

What's Changed

Improved lineage from constant values
When you specify the input table in your query and extract lineage from a source that contains constant values, the lineage leads to the input table.
Previously, the linage stopped at the constant value.
Executable details in the MetaDex tool
The job
Details
tab in the MetaDex tool includes information on executable properties and notifications if the visualization or properties are not available for specific executables.
Previously, the job
Details
tab was called
Basic info
and it didn't include executable property information
For more information, see the
MetaDex Scanners Administrator Guide
.
The Snowflake scanner fetches procedures and function definitions without administrator permissions
If a procedure definition contains an EXECUTE AS CALLER statement, you can fetch procedure definitions in Snowflake scanner jobs with the usage privilege. You can also fetch function definitions.
Previously, you needed administrator permissions to fetch procedure and function definitions.
For more information, see the
MetaDex Scanner Configuration Guide
.

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