Use imported attribute to reference different meta data for export

Question

our HR system only provides the three letter country code and i would like to export to AD the two letter country code and the spelled out country name. 
maybe someone can provide the best way to do this. some questions i have had around trying to solve this are
can you have a connector space object joined to multiple metaverse objects? a one to many relationship?
could i create a new object_type country and have the person reference the country metaverse object? 
i'm trying to avoid adding more code, let me know if there is a way to configure what i am trying to do either in the sync engine or the fim portal.
Thank You!
edit: if it is helpful i have no problem importing the ISO-3166 data from a source like http://opengeocode.org/download/countrynames.txt into
fim.

Answer 1

You could project country objects into the MV from your file, but personally I would just create a new SQL table based on the country code file then join it to the HR table (assuming this is a DB feed - if not import your HR file into a SQL table
first via SSIS). Then the countryName will be an attribute on the incoming person from HR. Something like
create view vwImportNew
SELECT tblHR.employeeID, tblHR.firstName, tblHR.lastName, tblCountryCode.countryCode, tblCountryCode.countryName
from tblHR
INNER JOIN tblCountryCode
ON tblHR.countryCode = tblCountryCode.countryCode
Then repoint your HR MA at vwImportNew and refresh the schema and the countryName will appear as an attribute ready for import flow
Cheers,
Dave