The Analyst Service is an application service that runs the Informatica Analyst application in the Informatica domain. The Analyst Service manages the connections between service components and the users that log in to the Analyst tool. The Analyst Service connects to a Data Integration Service, a Model Repository Service, a Metadata Manager Service, and a Search Service.
The Analyst Service also specifies the following directories and database connections:
Flat file cache directory
Flat file network directory
Business glossary export file directory
Exception management audit database
When you configure the Analyst Service, connect it to a Data Integration Service to run profiles, scorecards, and mapping specifications. You can also connect the Analyst Service to a Data Integration Service that runs workflows that create Human tasks. Connect the Analyst Service to a Model Repository Service to identify a Model repository.
Connect the Analyst Service to a Metadata Manager Service to perform data lineage operations on scorecards in the Analyst tool. Connect the Analyst Service to a Search Service to manage search operations in the Analyst tool.
Specify a flat file cache directory to store temporary data from flat files that you upload. Specify a business glossary directory to stores temporary files that you export from the Business Glossary.
Specify a flat file network directory so that you can import flat files using the network path option in the Analyst tool.
Specify a database as the exception management audit database to write an audit trail for all Human task operations to a single database. When you specify the database, specify the schema for the audit tables also. The database stores audit data for all work that users perform on Human task instances in the Analyst tool that the Analyst Service manages. If you do not specify a database and schema, the Analyst Service writes audit data for each Human task instance to the database that stores the Human task data.