IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog v11.5.0.2: Understanding Your Information Assets

Audience

• This is a basic course for those who will be using IGC to explore and analyze metadata stored within the Information Server Repository.

Prerequisites

• Those taking this course should have basic knowledge of the Windows operating system. Familiarity with Information Server products is desirable but not required.

Course Topics

1: Introduction to the Information Governance Catalog Metadata

• Describe and list examples of metadata
• Describe the purpose and uses of the Information Governance Catalog
• List the main functional categories of the Information Governance Catalog
• Describe the IBM Information Server environment and how the Information Governance Catalog is part of it
• Describe the metadata management role of the Information Governance Catalog within Information Server

2: Exploring the Information Governance Catalog

• Log into the Information Governance Catalog
• Describe how metadata is organized with the Information Server Repository
• Navigate around the Information Governance Catalog
• Explore the types of metadata assets that can be viewed and analyzed in the Information Governance Catalog

3: Capturing metadata assets

• Use Metadata Asset Manager to capture metadata for ODBC data resources, logical models, and BI reports
• Describe DataStage captured metadata, including sequential files and DataStage jobs and job sequences
• Describe how DataStage operational metadata is generated
• Capture DataStage operational metadata

4: Search and query

• Explore the metadata hierarchy of assets
• Use the Find capabilities of the Information Governance Catalog
• Create and execute queries

5: Data lineage

• Generate an impact analysis graph
• Generate a data lineage graph
• Solve problems using impact analysis and lineage graphs

6: Enhancing lineage through extended mappings

• Create extended data assets
• Create extended mappings
• Create a data lineage report involving extended data assets
• Generate business lineage report

7: Open Governance Catalog

• Describe Open Governance Catalog and its benefits
• Define new (custom) asset types using the Open Governance Catalog REST API
• Import new (custom) asset types
• Display the flow of data through the new asset type
• Governing and benefiting from new asset types