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Hello Ataccama team I am working with ataccama 14.5 , I would like to know if there is a documentation to know more about dpe service. Kind Regards

Hi everyone!In today’s post, I’ll walk you through the Policy Management module with best practices so that you can make the most of it in your organization. Let’s start with the basics: Understanding Policy ManagementPolicy Management is your one-stop hub for documenting and tracking policies and regulations that impact your entire organization. It's designed to help you stay compliant with regulations and internal policies. By using this module, you can easily define, organize, and monitor the rules and guidelines that guide your organization's operations. Navigating the Policy OverviewTo get started, head over to the Policy Management section on the left sidebar.Here, you'll find the All Policies tab that provides an overview of all your policies. Each policy is highlighted with different colors to indicate its status:No highlight: Published policy. Green highlight: Recently added policy. Orange highlight: Policy with requested changes. Red highlight: Policy with removal requested.C

Happy Wednesday Community! Today we will talk about workflows - let’s dive into it right away 🤿 Currently, workflows in Ataccama ONE are focused on the access request process. They offer additional automation for requesting changes to data access in ONE. Here are some key actions that workflows allow:If you have insufficient access rights on a node, you can request a higher access level from the node owner. The default assignee of the task can either approve or reject the request from the Kanban Board. For more information on tasks, check out our previous post on the community here.Before you can request access to entity data, make sure you meet the following prerequisites:The workflows:ableToStartRequestDataAccess trait must be enabled on the entity. Data access requests can only be enabled for the following entities: Catalog Item Source Location Connection Monitoring Project To view the list of workflows, navigate to Tasks And Workflows > Launched workflows tab. Here's what y

I have an xml file with a structure like this:<model xmlns="http://www.ataccama.com">    <entities>        <entity name="table1" />     <columns>             <column datatype="varchar(100)" name="abc" required="false" />             <column datatype="int" name="xyz" required="false" />             <column datatype="datetime" name="123" required="false" />     </columns>...I want to produce a data stream that combines the column name and data_type with the name from the parent entity node.  If I define the columns using xpath nm:model/nm:entitles/nm:entity/nm:columns/nm:column then I cannot access the entity name using ../../@name (or any xpath expression for that matter).  If I define the columns using entity level xpath epxression nm:model/nm:entitles/nm:entity and the columns with xpath nm:columns/nm:column/@name then I only get 1 record per entity with the first column only.   How can I get the entity name, column name, and column data

Hi,I created a Monitoring Project with a Catalog Item Loan from Source A. In the Monitoring Project I apply 100 DQ checks and I'm very happy. I want to change the source afterwards because I'm done checking the CI Loan from Source A and need to check the same CI (not same data) from Source B. Is it possible/doable to change the underlying Source A to Source B keeping the 100 DQ checks in the same Monitoring Project? I heard it was possible, but couldn't find it anywhere in the community.

Hi Community!I was wondering if anyone has used the Security term (as extension of term) functionality in OneWeb and if so how. There seems no documentation available from the Documentation portal or the Community to clarify the modeling choices. The node has the following properties regulation is a string instead of a reference to node regulation and responsiblePerson is also a string. The effectiveDate is not of type date but string as well. Why would this be?Anyhow, I would appreciate if anyone can shine some light on this.Thanks and kind regards!Albert

We want to profile Hive managed tables in our Cloudera data lake. This is only possible if the Hive managed table is defined as non transactional. However to turn of that feature you need to rebuild the table. We had a discussion with our architecture team and they don't want to turn off this functionality.The other option then is using Hive Warehouse Connector. It is known that this has some performance costs. But we want to test this anyway.Is there any documentation on using this feature?

Hey all, Has anyone been able to integrate with TWS for kicking off Reconciliation or Data Quality Project runs? I have users asking if their DQ Projects can run after their jobs have run which are scheduled by TWS. I was thinking that there has to be a way that Ataccama could listen for when a TWS job runs and finishes, it could kick off a DQ or Reconciliation project to also begin running. Has anyone successfully set this up before? either in the Orchestrative server or within Ataccama Desktop?Thanks

How can I map custom input parameter for Validation component in Ataccama One Web UI?   

I have a workflow that runs multiple components. In the workflow I have a parameter called load_id that I would like to use to query all kinds of tables later in the flow. But if you use a JDBC Reader in your component you can't use the parameter in the query. You could if you were able to do an Alter Format before the JDBC Reader, but JDBC Reader allows no input.I've seen some tips here in the Community, like these: But initially I still ran into some issues before I got it working. So I decided to share a working example.This is my very simple workflow.It only has a Run DQC task that will run the component.But let me show the global variables in my workflow. I hardcoded the load_id, so my query would get rows back. Now lets look at the configuration of the Run DQC task: As you can see, I run the parameterinquery.comp component and pass on the load_id with the expression """"+load_id+"""" .On to my component:The Random Record Generator is the start of this, because with the JDBC Reade

Hi Team, could someone please assist in getting idea of implementing checkpoints in master data consolidation process.?  as currently we observed MDM follows a one lengthy workflow of MDM data consolidation process from Data acquisition to publish data to the downstream systems [ data acquisition→ change detection → cleansing → match→ and then merge.]  during this entire flow execution if any one of the components failed after few hours due technical some issues, then it is required to restart this entire flow. just to avoid this we wanted to restart the jobs from the point where failure happens, is there any way to breakdown or separate the jobs or implement the check points to restart.? please suggest with the recommendations.Thanks, 

Hi Community,In a term's listing (overview) page you can click on the term's name after which the detail page for that term opens. If you click beside the term's name a kind of preview pane or side window opens, also showing details for that particular term. So like this:In the details screen it is possible to change the page layout, which is especially important after having added custom properties, so that a logical layout can be retained.It looks though that for this preview pane the layout cannot be changed. Does anyone of you know how to accomplish this?Kind regards,Albert

Please advise if you have any documentation that provides a short description on each Ataccama functions pertaining to user access:  for exampleAtaccama Function Description  Administrator Data Owner Data Steward Custodian System   Full access       User Management   Full access Editing access View metadata access View metadata access Source   Full access Full access Full access View metadata access Connection   Full access Full access Full access View metadata access Folder Folders in Workspace are intended for storing SQL catalog items and virtual catalog items (VCIs).  Full access Full access Full access Full access Location   Full access Full access Full access View metadata access Catalog Item   Full access Full access Full access View metadata access Term   Full access Full access Full access View metadata access Rule   Full access Full access Full access View metadata acc

Hello everyone!In the new version of Ataccama 14.5, Is it possible to add comments on tables and fields from the database automatically to the Description field in Ataccama ONE, if the Description is empty and the Comment from the database is not empty?I will be very grateful for your help🤗Thank you!

I know that it is possible to use variables in filenames in a Text Writer (see here: Text File Writer: adding a datetime as suffix to an output file (ataccama.com)). But what about the Request and Response Debug File in a Json Call?I have a component for ServiceNow integration and I want to reuse another component to retrieve incident details. But when I run the main component I get this error:File file://d:/Ataccama/workspace/SNOW/distribution/debug/03_getincdetails_request_debug.txt must not be multiplicatively accessed in writing mode.The only way to get it all working, is by removing the Request and Response Debug File in the Json Call that gets incident details. A possible way around this would be if I could use variables in the filenames. But this does not seem to work in the same way that variables work in Text Writer steps (by putting the variable name between { } ).Is there another way?

Hello everyone,I’d like to set up access permissions in Ataccama One so that users within a particular stewardship group are limited to making changes only to that specific group (e.g., adding/removing users from certain roles within that group)?For example, HR users should only be allowed to make user related changes within the confine of the HR group.However, the user management seems to be a global page and does not have stewardship-specific access. If anyone has insights on how to achieve this restriction, could you kindly share your workaroundThank you in advance!Ben

Hi everyone, and happy Thursday!As I’ve mentioned starting this week, this post will be the last of the Ataccama ONE Web Best Practice Series for a while because…… we are moving on to ONE Desktop next week on! In this post, we’ll cover Workflows, and I highly suggest checking out the Tasks article from yesterday before reading it if you haven’t checked that out. It will help out with laying the foundation for workflows.Let's explore how these workflows supercharge your access and review request processes. Demystifying WorkflowsIn the realm of Ataccama ONE, workflows are your dynamic companions for handling access and review requests.Access Request Workflows automate data access change requests. Imagine needing higher access to an asset – this workflow empowers you to request and assigns the task to an approver, who can then give it the green light or a gentle decline.Review Request Workflows introduce automation to review changes made to data assets and get them published. If you hold

Hello:I really appreciate the commnity helping me solve more use cases and get value out of the investment we made in Ataccama. Now - i have another area that i need help with.We have a vendor that drops a file every night - this is not comma delimited and not fixed length. Based on the first character of the line, it decides the format of that lineFor ex: if char(1) is - 1 - then the lenght of the file will be 10 characters with first 5 characters as identfier and next five char as status.But if the first character is 2 - that means it is a different type record (type 2), that has 100 characters in length - and each of them fixed length positions. Now - when i scan that file through Ataccama, it is thinking the file attributes based on the first row. But is there a way i can give the metadata to the profiler?And by the way, i need this to be a monitoring project that runs DQ on a demand basis (that i would like to trigger through Airflow when the file arrives)can some one give me some

Term Detection Rule: Based on metadataRules based on metadata use information about asset, e.g. description, Catalog Item or data source name.Is there an option to expand this function to detect our “add custom metadata”?  For example:  On the Catalog Item level: Data Classification, Criticality, and Data Asset Type  

Hi all,Can I export lookup file and import to another environment?  Thanks in advance.

Hello Community. I have a vendor who shared their data through Snowflake Data Sharing. We added it as a data source and scanned the source to add the objects into my Data Catalog. I even have a sccheduled job that scans this source everyday (end of day) for sample profiling.Today, we had an issue that 10 of the tables that were previously present in the shared data source, were dropped, two new tables created, and some of the tables, have new fields added, existing fields removed, some fields renamed.This source is about 300 tables, but some of the tables ahve about 700+ fields. So, I would like to know best way for me to get a report/alert/notification onany new tables added to the source any existing tables dropped any existing table modified with new fields added any existing table modified with existing fields dropped/removed. What is the best way to accomplish this?For the dropped tables that previously existed, my end of day profile job is showing error in the DPM (because the ta

Data Quality checks on catalog item can they automatically come into monitoring project when that item is added to MP? Here is my challenge:I have catalog items with 20 or more checks. If i add them to monitoring project - it does not automatically show as “Data Quality” for that catalog item itself. And when i add the checks to the Catalog item, they are not coming to monitoring project when i add that catalog item to the MP.Iam needing to add/configure all the rules separaely - both at Catalog item level (to get DQ percent score for that object), and also at the Monitoring project level. Is it possible to add the DQ rules - just to the Catalog item, and when I add that catalog item to the MP, it should automatically bring the existing rules on that object into the MP?​​​​

HiWe are interested to export metadata information into excel or CSV using “Export list of Items” option (see attached image).However, this is disabled in some screens.While there are ways to use desktop components to read metadata and export to CSV, this process is highly cumbersome and still doesn’t solve the purpose.Are there anyother alternatives?