Managing Environments

Managing Environments involves:

  • Editing or Deleting environments
  • Importing metadata from different environments

To manage environments, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Application Menu > Data Catalog > Metadata Manager.
  2. In the System Catalogue pane, right-click an environment.

    3. The options available appear.

  3. Use the following options:
    Edit Environment
    Use this option to update the environment details.
    Note: Status of an environment is displayed according to the workflow assigned to the environment. For more information on assigning workflow to environments, refer to the Managing Metadata Manager Workflows section.
    Delete Environment
    Use this option to delete the environment.
    Import Environment
    Use this option to import an environment.

You can update an environment by importing metadata from another environment. You can also create a version of the environment while importing the metadata.

To import metadata from an environment, follow these steps:

  1. In the System Catalogue pane, right-click an environment.
  2. Click Export Environment.

    3. The environment is exported in the AMP format.

  3. Right-click the required environment.
  4. Click Import Environment.
  5. Drag and drop or use to browse the exported AMP file.
  6. Click .
  7. Select Schemas and appropriate import metadada options.

    8. Note: Select the Version Environment check box to create version of the environment.

  8. Click .
  9. Select the tables and click .

    10. The environment is imported.