A workspace is a web page that you can access based on license and privilege. You can perform tasks within a workspace. You can manage assets or use assets to perform tasks in some workspaces. The Analyst tool has permanent workspaces and temporary workspaces.
A permanent workspace is always available on the workspace tab. You can navigate to another workspace, but you cannot close a permanent workspace. A temporary workspace is available through a workspace tab. You can open a temporary workspace from the Analyst tool header or from access panels within a workspace. You can close the workspace from the tab when you do not need it.
Permanent Workspaces
The Analyst tool contains the following permanent workspaces:
Start
Access other workspaces that you have the license to access through access panels on the workspace. If you have the license to perform exception management, your tasks appear on the
My Tasks
panel of the workspace. If you have to cast your vote as an approver in the approval workflow process, your pending tasks appear in the
My Tasks
panel.
Glossary
Define and describe business concepts that are important to your organization. You can create and manage business terms, business initiatives, categories, glossaries, and policies.
Discovery
Analyze the quality of data and metadata in source systems. You can create and manage profiles, flat file data objects, and table data objects. You can view and manage Developer tool objects such as SAP and mainframe objects that are stored in projects in the Model repository.
Design
Design business logic that helps analysts and developers collaborate. You can create and manage mapping specifications, reference tables, and rule specifications.
Scorecards
Open, edit, and run scorecards that you created from profile results. You can add metrics, drill down on columns, add scorecard filters, and view trend charts for a scorecard.
Temporary Workspaces
The Analyst tool contains the following temporary workspaces:
Library
Search for assets in the Model repository. You can also view metadata in the
Library
workspace. When you open an asset, it opens in the workspace where it was created.
Exceptions
View and manage exception record data for a task. When you open a task from the
My Tasks
panel of the
Start
workspace, the Analyst tool opens a temporary workspace called the
Exceptions
workspace. View duplicate record clusters or exception records depending on the type of task you are working on. View an audit trail of the changes you make to records in a task.
Connections
Create and manage connections to import relational data objects, preview data, run a profile, and run mapping specifications.
Data Domains
Create, manage, and remove data domains and data domain groups. A data domain describes the semantics of column data such as Social Security number or phone number. You can categorize data domains into data domain groups such as Social Security number and phone number into the Personal Health Information (PHI) data domain group.
Job Status
Monitor the status of Analyst tool jobs such as data preview for all objects and drilldown operations on profiles.
Projects
Create and manage folders and projects and assign permissions on projects.
Glossary Security
Manage permissions, privileges, and roles for business glossary users.
Settings
Select an operating system profile to run mappings, profiles, and scorecards. An operating system profile is a type of security that the Data Integration Service uses to isolate run-time user environments. The
Settings
workspace is available if the Informatica administrator assigns more than one operating system profile to the user. To open the