Configuring assets for data lineage and business lineage reports
You can select which assets to include in data lineage and business lineage reports to make them more meaningful to the user.
Before you begin
You must have the Information Governance Catalog Information Asset Administrator role.
To ensure that lineage includes the runtime flows of relevant jobs, activate generation of operational metadata for the jobs.
About this task
- Jobs and transformation projects from IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® and QualityStage®
- In typical development transformation projects, many jobs are experimental. As a result, those jobs need to be excluded from data lineage reports. Set Include For Lineage to True only for jobs that are production candidates.
- Mapping specifications from IBM InfoSphere FastTrack
- By default, lineage assumes that mapping specifications do not describe actual data flows. As a result, mapping specifications are ignored in lineage reports. In those cases where mapping specifications do describe actual data flows, you can set Include For Lineage to True for those mapping specifications.
Business lineage reports can include certain asset types, such as application, business intelligence (BI) report, and data file. By default, all assets of these asset types are included in business lineage reports. You can exclude individual assets from business lineage reports.
Only assets that have Include for Business lineage set to True are displayed in business linage relationships. Their relationships enable the lineage to continue the flow even if they themselves are not shown.