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Knowledge Catalog

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Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Allow the user to filter using custom fields on the search screen

Custom fields are very useful for adding information to data assets in a structured way that adapts well to the particular structure of companies. Because of this, we believe that being able to filter assets and information by these fields is some...
18 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Planned for future release

Bring "Notes" information in column details

Bring "Notes" information in column details for a column imported from a physical data model.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Bulk edit capability for categories

Content admins have a need to update certain properties/relationships/parent category of a set of categories in bulk; example case is to move a list of categories from one parent category to another in bulk
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Filtering Catalogs assets by custom attribute values

In our current IGC setup, we have the functionality to create custom attributes and allows users to filter the catalog by these custom attributes. On the catalog screen, example users can select the database asset type and then filter results usin...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Search result to be highlighted

Problem statement/pain point: Search with search bar in the main panel, return relevant asset list. But search does not provide information on where the search term hit the asset or the asset's metadata(e.g.asset name, description…). No workaroun...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Enable selection display or hide data item in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not select which items should be shown or hidden in table view. For exampl...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release