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Balaraju Komuravalli
Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer
Andreas Stoeckicht
Intern
January 10, 2005
Utility Overview
The Repository Documentation Utility can be used to automatically capture information about the
metadata in your repository into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This utility makes use of the
Informatica Metadata Exchange SDK interfaces to access the repository. It is available on the
Microsoft Windows platform only.
Note: This utility is a free download available on the Informatica Developer Network. The
download also comes with source code for the program. No technical support for this utility is
provided by Informatica technical support.
The following features are available in Repository Documentation Utility:
Connection name
Connection type
Connection subtype
Connect string
User name
Folder name
Workflow name
Worklet name
Mapping comment
Sources used in the mapping along with source database type, source DBD name
Known Issues
If a source or target database type is overwritten at the session level to flat file, then they
are not reflected in the report.
Source or Target associated connections are not displayed. Instead, the report displays all
the source and target connections used in the session.
Microsoft Excel
Installation
From the Repository Documentation Utility download package, run the setup program.
The Repository Documentation Utility runs on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 only.
Output/Documentation
When the utility completes running, you can find the output in the repositoryname.xls file in the
RepositoryDoc Tool installation folder. This Excel file contains both connection usage report and
repository object details report. If there are problems with some of the entries in the repository,
the error messages will be written in the corresponding cell in the Excel sheet and it will be
marked red.
Sample Output: