2. From the Actions menu, click New > Folder.

The New Folder window appears.

3. Enter Customers for the folder name.
4. Click OK.
The folder appears under the tutorial project.

Setting Up Informatica Analyst Summary

In this lesson, you learned that the Analyst tool stores assets in projects and folders. A Model repository
contains the projects and folders. The Analyst Service runs the Analyst tool. The Model Repository Service
manages the Model repository. The Analyst Service and the Model Repository Service are application
services in the Informatica domain.

You logged in to the Analyst tool and created a project and a folder.

Now, you can use the Analyst tool to complete other lessons in this tutorial.

Setting Up Informatica Analyst Summary 21

CHAPTER 3

Lesson 2. Creating Data Objects

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Creating Data Objects Overview, 22

• Task 1. Create the Flat File Data Objects, 23
• Task 2. View the Data Object Properties, 23
• Creating Data Objects Summary, 24

Creating Data Objects Overview

In the Analyst tool, a data object is a representation of data based on a flat file or relational database table.
You create a flat file or table object and then run a profile against the data in the flat file or relational
database table. When you create a flat file data object in the Analyst tool, you can upload the file to the flat
file cache on the machine that runs the Analyst tool or you can specify the network location where the flat file
is stored.

Story
HypoStores keeps the Los Angeles customer data in flat files. HypoStores needs to profile and analyze the
data and perform data quality tasks.

Objectives
In this lesson, you complete the following tasks:

1. Upload the flat file to the flat file cache location and create a data object.
2. Preview the data for the flat file data object.

Prerequisites
Before you start this lesson, verify the following prerequisites:

• You have completed lesson 1 in this tutorial.

• You have the LA_Customers.csv flat file. You can find this file in the <Installation Root Directory>
\<Release Version>\clients\DeveloperClient\Tutorials folder.

Timing
Set aside 5 to 10 minutes to complete this task.

22
Task 1. Create the Flat File Data Objects
In this task, you create a flat file data object from the LA_Customers file.

1. In the Analyst tool, click New > Flat File Data Object.
The Add Flat File wizard appears.
2. Select Browse and Upload, and click Browse.
3. Browse to the location of LA_Customers.csv, and click Open.
4. Click Next.
The Choose type of import panel displays Delimited and Fixed-width options. Select the Delimited
option. The default option is Delimited.
5. Click Next.
6. Under Specify the delimiters and text qualifiers used in your data, select Double quotes as a text
qualifier.
7. Under Specify lines to import, select Import from first line to import column names from the first
nonblank line.
The Preview panel updates to show the column headings from the first row.
8. Click Next.
The Column Attributes panel shows the datatype, precision, scale, and format for each column.
9. Click Next.
The Name field displays LA_Customers.
10. Select the Tutorial_ project and the Customers folder.
11. Click Finish.
The data object appears in the folder contents for the Customers folder.

Task 2. View the Data Object Properties

In this task, you can view the properties of the LA_Customers data object.

1. Click Open to open the Library workspace.

2. In the Library workspace, click Data Objects in the Assets panel.
A list of data objects appears in the Data Objects panel.
3. Click LA_Customers flat file.
The Data Preview panel appears with the data retrieved from the LA_Customers data object.
4. In the Data Preview panel, review the structure and content of the LA_Customers data object.
The Analyst tool displays the first 100 rows of the flat file data object.
5. Click Properties.
The Properties panel displays the name, type, description, and location of the data object. You can also
see the column names and column properties for the data object.

Task 1. Create the Flat File Data Objects 23