For example, when Metadata Manager indexes the object name Products-Sales_Data, it ignores the dash as a special character, resulting in the term Products Sales_Data.

To use special characters in a search, use a backslash (

\

) before the special character. For example, to search for Products-Sales_Data, use the following syntax:

Because Metadata Manager indexes a special character as a space, Metadata Manager returns objects with any special character in the same location. For example, if you search for Products\-Sales_Data, Metadata Manager returns any of the following objects:

Metadata Manager does not index the following special characters:

~

,

!

,

^

,

&&

,

*

,

( )

,

-

,

+

,

{ }

,

[ ]

,

||

,

\

,

:

,

"

,

?

, any single alphabetic character

a

-

z

or

A

-

Z

By default, Metadata Manager does not index the following common words:

Metadata Manager ignores the common words when you include them in the search criteria. You can customize the list of words to ignore in searches by updating following file:

<Informatica services installation directory>\services\shared\jars\pc\classes\stopwords.txt

For more information about the stopwords.txt file, see the

Metadata Manager Administrator Guide

.