You use PowerCenter to extract customer information from Web_Cust and load it into Customers. Customers is a table in an Oracle database. Business Objects uses the information in Customers to populate the Customer Retention report. To view lineage among all source repositories, establish a connection assignment between the PowerCenter repository and the Oracle database and another connection assignment between the Business Objects repository and the Oracle database.
Metadata Manager has loaded the resources for these metadata sources. Use the Resource Link Administration window to direct Metadata Manager to create the links for the Oracle resource. Metadata Manager uses Connection_Assignment_1 to link objects in the Oracle database to objects in the PowerCenter repository. Metadata Manager uses Connection_Assignment_2 to link objects in the Oracle database to objects in the Business Objects repository.
The following figure shows an example of connection assignments: