Required. The resource name of the parent location: projects/{project}/locations/{locationId} where project refers to a projectId or project_number and locationId refers to a Google Cloud region.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
dataplex.datascans.create
Query parameters
Parameters
dataScanId
string
Required. DataScan identifier.
Must contain only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens.
Must start with a letter.
Must end with a number or a letter.
Must be between 1-63 characters.
Must be unique within the customer project / location.
validateOnly
boolean
Optional. Only validate the request, but do not perform mutations. The default is false.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of DataScan.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.
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