Create an Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services connection to Edge or Collibra Cloud site

For CollibraData Lineage to connect to and retrieve metadata from Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, create an Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) connection.

Before you begin

• To create and use Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) connection, use Collibra Platform 2023.03 or later.
• Create an Edge site on K3S.
If you want to add connection values from a vault, you have added the vault to your Edge site. If your data source connection requires a file from your vault, the file must be encoded into Base64 and stored as a regular secret in your vault. For more information, go to the Vault documentation.
Note  Vaults are not supported on Collibra Cloud sites.

Prerequisites

• You have a global role with the Product Rights > System administration global permission.
• You have a global role that has the Manage Edge sites global permission.
• You have a global role that has the Manage connections and capabilities global permission.

Steps

1. Open a site.
   1. On the main toolbar, click → Settings.
      The Settings page opens.
   2. In the tab pane, click Edge.
      The Sites tab opens and shows a table with an overview of your sites.
   3. In the site overview, click the name of a site.
      The site page appears.
2. In the Connections section, click Create Connection.
   The Create Connection dialog box appears.
3. Select Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) connection.
4. Enter the connection information.

   Field	Description	Required
   Name	The name of the connection.	Yes
   Description	The description of the connection. This field is also visible when you register content.	No
   Vault	The vault where you store your data source values.	No
   IICS URL	The URL of the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services environment sign-in page. For example: https://dm-us.informaticaintelligentcloud.com. You can add this property from your vault. For more information, go to the vault documentation.	Yes
   Username	The username that you use to sign in to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. You can add this property from your vault. For more information, go to the vault documentation.	Yes
   Password	The password that you use to sign in to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. Tip You can select To be encrypted by Edge management server or Encrypted with public key to indicate the encryption method. You can add this property from your vault. For more information, go to the vault documentation.	Yes

5. Click Create.

What's next

Add the Technical Lineage for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) capability to your Edge or Collibra Cloud site.