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Data catalog discovery for sources

If your organization uses Enterprise Data Catalog and you have the appropriate license, you can perform a search against the catalog and discover catalog assets. You can use the assets that you discover as sources, targets, and lookup objects in mappings and as sources in

synchronization

and

file ingestion

tasks.

Before you can use data catalog discovery, your organization administrator must configure the Enterprise Data Catalog integration properties on the

Organization

page in

Administrator

. For more information about configuring Enterprise Data Catalog integration properties, see the

Administrator

help.

Perform data catalog discovery on the

Data Catalog

page.

The following image shows the

Data Catalog

page:

The page displays a

field and the total number of table, view, and flat file assets in the catalog.

In the

field, enter a search phrase that might occur in the object name, description, or other metadata such as the data domain or associated business glossary term. When you select an object from the search results,

Data Integration

asks you where you want to use the object.

To use the object as a source in a

synchronization

file ingestion

task, select

Create a new asset

and choose the task.

Data Integration

imports the connection if it does not exist in your organization.

Data Integration

then creates the task and adds the object to the task as the source object. You cannot add the object as a source in an existing task.