A Terminology

Your Data Integration Platform Cloud service uses specific terms that are related to the product use.

Term	Description
Agent	Allows Data Integration Platform Cloud to exchange heart beats with source and target resources.
Connection	Describes a physical connection to a database. It includes all the details necessary to establish a connection to a resource.
Connection Type	Defines the set of properties for a connection.
Data Asset	A repository, such as a Data Lake.
Data Entity	A collection of data such as table, file, dimension, or view.
Execution Environment
Job	An execution of a Task.
Notification	System messages alerting you to specific job conditions.
Policy	A rule that specifies the condition(s) for which an alert notification is produced.
Schema	An owner of data entities. A schema has a default Connection to provide a default setting used in operations like generate or execute for tasks.
Task	Different types of data integration activities you can perform in Data Integration Platform Cloud.