The Information Catalog Manager includes predefined object types that you can exchange with metadata from other Data Warehouse Center components and other MDIS-conforming products from IBM and other companies. This appendix describes all of the predefined the Information Catalog Manager object types and describes how the object type properties map to MDIS object types. For information about the Metadata Interchange Specification, including complete MDIS object type definitions, visit the Meta Data Coalition's Web site at http://www.MDCinfo.com
The Information Catalog Manager provides both the predefined object types and sample objects of each type within the sample information catalog. The sample information catalog includes at least one object type for each of the seven Information Catalog Manager categories. This appendix describes how to create the sample information catalog. For details of Information Catalog Manager object type capabilities, see Creating your own object types.