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Hi guys, I know a metadata can be imported through IMAM, or IMAM.sh command line and these 2 approach uses bridges or connectors to connect with DB or Data File And the other approach is the istool import, But I don't think istool uses any bridges or connectors to import the metadata though it impor...

Hi, Is it possible to identify or extract information about IIS Roles of a particular user through Rest API? I know we could extract most of the IGC information through Rest API, but I was wondering how we could extract user roles through Rest API. Search option with "user" types returns o...

Let's say our IBM IIS hostname is https://********.****.***.com:9445/*** Is it possible to change this host name to some meaningful name? It's not a big deal if the usage is only limited to datastage, but since we are using IGC and other User interface products, am wondering if possible to change th...

Hi, Is there a way to (manually) stitch/bind a physical Data File information Asset to a virtual Data File information Asset? What happen was we have a DS job that uses File connector and Sequential File stage to get a file as the source of the job. This source information asset became a virtual Dat...

Is it really possible to install and use only istool on a Linux server without having a complete IIS package installed? We know it can be done effectively from Client and Engine tier, however we have an use case where we have to execute some istool command regularly from a different linux server whi...

Is it really advisable to enable IGC workflow ON and OFF whenever required? let's say we follow the workflow process and enabled it, and when we need to do a bulk load which doesn't need a workflow process, can we disable temporarily and do a bulk load so it automatically goes to published and then ...

Thanks so much Ernie for detailed explanation, I will try things as per your suggestions and see how it goes.

We would like to understand how an End to End Lineage in IGC works, mainly for OBIEE reports. Let's say I have the following information available in IGC which was imported through IMAM. Source Data: A Table and a corresponding view ETL Process: A Datastage job that populates data in above table fro...

Thanks Ernie.

I have a use case and I know few solutions for this, but would like to hear from experts here on what are the other best possible way of handling this: Use Case: I need to trigger a Java or a shell script and do some action whenever an IGC Term get's published. Solutions I think would work for sure:...

Which version? What is the exact problem that you are facing? I don't think you need to register anything for a basic email notification. The registration works only when you have an external application to be triggered for any events. Check directly in the subscription manager and see if you are ab...