You can delete the technical lineage of a data source by updating the capability for the data source and synchronizing the technical lineage again.
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If you want to use technical lineage via Edge together with the lineage harvester, ensure that you use the lineage harvester pre-release version 2023.04 or newer. Use the lineage harvester pre-release versions only in non-production environments.
- If you want to delete the technical lineage of a data source by using the lineage harvester, ensure that you use the lineage harvester version 2023.03 or newer. For details, go to Delete the technical lineage of a data source.
Steps
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Open an Edge site.
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On the main menu, click
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Settings.
The Settings page opens. -
In the tab pane, click Edge.
The Edge sites overview appears. - In the Edge site overview, click the name of the Edge site where you created the technical lineage capability for the data source.
The Edge site page appears.
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On the main menu, click
- In the Capabilities section, locate and click the technical lineage capability that you added for the data source when you created the technical lineage.
- Clear the Active check box.
- Click Save.
The capability is updated.
- Synchronize the technical lineage capability for the data source.
The data source is marked as ignored internally and will be excluded when the technical lineage is synchronized again.
- Synchronize your technical lineage by taking any of the following actions:
- On Edge, synchronize the technical lineage capability for any of your data sources that are active.
- With the lineage harvester, run any of the following commands:
- The
synccommand:- For Windows:
.\bin\lineage-harvester.bat sync - For other operating systems:
./bin/lineage-harvester sync
- For Windows:
- The
full-synccommand:- For Windows:
.\bin\lineage-harvester.bat full-sync - For other operating systems:
./bin/lineage-harvester full-sync
- For Windows:
For more information, go to Lineage harvesting app command options and arguments.
When synchronization is complete, the technical lineage of the data source is deleted.
What's next?
If you want to delete the technical lineage capability for the data source, ensure that the technical lineage of the data source is removed successfully after synchronization. For more information, go to Delete an Edge capability from an Edge site.
You can view a summary of the results from the Activities list to see whether the technical lineage is synchronized successfully.
If the synchronization fails or completes with errors, you can use the technical lineage via Edge troubleshooting guide or Collibra Support Portal to fix the errors.