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Question:  What are Meta Data Extenstions used in an informatica mapping?
What is the significance,usage and how informatica handles them?




November 11, 2007 13:09:44 #1
 chandrarekha   Member Since: May 2007    Total Comments: 14 

RE: What are Meta Data Extenstions used in an informatica mapping? What is the significance,usage and how informatica handles them?
 
You can extend the metadata stored in the repository by associating an repository object  . this is called metadata extension
there are tow types of metadata extensions
user defined
  vendor defined

for example , if u want to add a new port to the source that u can do it by metadata extensions
     

 

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