Data Catalog Organization of Shared Files

When you create Data Federation shares to provision files into the data catalog, Sybase recommends that you put these shared directories under /Shares. You can then expose portions of these Data Federation shares in categories, or link them into a directory structure under /Shares or elsewhere in the data catalog.

Putting shared directories under /Shares is a convention, not a hard requirement. As with any directory in the data catalog, you can create any kind of structure that you want under /Shares to organize your shared file systems as you deem appropriate.

Having done so, you can then expose portions of these Data Federation shares in categories, or by linking them into a directory structure under /Shares or elsewhere in the data catalog.

For example, as part of making all of your organization’s data assets available via Data Federation's uniform data services layer, you might want to create Data Federation shares that contain items like:

Sales collateral
Generated reports
Commonly used spreadsheets
Commonly used software tools
FAQs
HR-related forms

You can share the source directories into the data catalog under /Shares and then create categories for these file assets that correspond to how you want people to find and access this information.