Talend OCF Connector Release Notes

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Core Connector Core connectors are included with all Alation platform tiers (subject to each tier’s connector limits) and are fully supported by Alation.

January 29, 2025

Talend OCF Connector: Version 3.0.0

Enhancements

Support for tMap Metadata Extraction

The connector now extracts the tMap node from Talend and catalogs it as a table into Alation metadata. Now, the connector also catalogs tMap columns into Alation. (AL-174095)

Support for Cataloging All Nodes

The connector now supports cataloging of all nodes present in Talend jobs providing visibility into end-to-end lineage. Nodes not part of the current Talend scope are cataloged as tables with no column information. The nodes contain the following description:

If this is a transformation you would like to be cataloged in Alation, please submit an idea in the Ideas portal and we will evaluate your request.

(AL-174095)

Note

Column-level information won’t be available for nodes outside the scope of the Talend connector. Hence, end-to-end column-level lineage isn’t supported.

Support for tMap Column Lineage

The connector now enables you to view the column-level lineage between sources and targets using tMap transformation. You can also view the data flow between these nodes. (AL-174095)

Support for End-to-End Table Lineage

The connector now enables you to view the end-to-end lineage between all the components in Talend jobs in Alation. (AL-174095)

September 05, 2024

Talend OCF Connector: Version 2.1.0

Enhancements

Support for Column Level Lineage

Talend OCF connector now supports column-level lineage. (AL-163510)

Support for Direct Connection to Talend

Talend OCF connector now supports direct connection to Talend. This eliminates the dependency on any code repository software. (AL-163509)

Fixed Issues

MDE Job Fails for Incomplete Talend Jobs

In Talend OCF connector version 2.0.1, incomplete Talend Jobs result in MDE failure

The issue is now resolved. (AL-167269)