Systems and Environments

You can perform impact analysis on environments and systems and analyze their impact as source and target.

This topic walks you through the steps to view impact analysis of environments. Similarly, you can view impact of systems, tables, and columns.

To view impact analysis at system or environment levels, follow these steps:

Go to Application Menu > Data Catalog > Metadata Manager > Explore.
On the Explore tab, click an environment tile to see its details.
Click the Impact Analysis tab.
Impact analysis for the environment appears.
It displays the asset hierarchy, sensitivity data indicator (SDI) classification, data quality analysis, and environment's impact based on related assets in your metadata.

Alternatively, click to switch the Overview Impact option ON to exclude non-existent systems and environments from the impact analysis. When this option is switched off, the view includes systems and environments that do not exist in the Metadata Manager.
On the Environments card, click Downstream.
The downstream dependencies of the environment appear in a grid format.

Similarly, you can view upstream dependencies on the Upstream tab.
On the Upstream or Downstream tab, click an asset to view its lineage or impact analysis. For more information on running lineage analysis on assets, refer to the Running Lineage Analysis topic.

You can also view the upstream and downstream dependencies of other impacted assets from selected environment's perspective. For example, the image below displays upstream system dependencies from the environment's perspective.