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

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

Settings

workspace, go to the

User Name

Analyst header item, click

Settings

.