Common metadata assets

Common metadata assets are stored in the metadata repository and shared between tools in the IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server suite. Common metadata assets include logical and physical data model assets, implemented data resources, and business intelligence (BI) assets.

You can use bridges and connectors to import common metadata assets. Then you can work with the common metadata assets in suite tools:

• In InfoSphere DataStage® and QualityStage® Designer, you can use table definitions that are created from database tables and data file structures.
• In InfoSphere Information Analyzer, you can analyze database columns, data file fields, and design columns.
• In InfoSphere FastTrack, you can use database tables, data files structures, and design tables to create mappings for jobs.
• In InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, you can create categories and terms that add business meaning to common metadata assets. You can create reports that trace data lineage from database tables and columns, across multiple jobs, and into the BI reports that are based on database tables. You can trace a database table back to the design table that it implements and to the logical entity that was the source of the design table.
• In InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager, you can analyze, preview, and refine your common metadata imports before you share them to the metadata repository. You can search or browse for common metadata assets in the metadata repository, find and eliminate duplicates, and delete disconnected assets.
• By using the istool command line, you can transfer common metadata assets to other installations of InfoSphere Information Server, for example, between development, test, and production environments.