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Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

User should be able to use not only technical meta but also business terms which are assigned to technical terms or which are described in order to find some fields/columns when they create ETL jobs or dashboards

This is for function enhancement request, not for bug fix request, but one of my customer requests bellow function enhancement strongly. [request detail] Once User run asset discovery so as to assign business meta against technical asset such as t...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Auto assign Data Classification

we will like to explore option to automatically assign data classification to the assets based on predefined condition. This is required as when we run the job to publish catalog, the software does not tell us which is the new tables being publish...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Manual assignment of business glossary against technical meta by key business term searching should be assisted by supporting category search function.

After asset discovery processing, user can check whether some business glossary are assigned against technical metas automatically. In addition, user can add manual assignment of additional business glossary against technical metas. In this situat...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Scheduled MDI/MDE Jobs Timestamp and Modified by details are being changed by Service ID

When a User schedules an MDI/MDE Job using a Schedule, post the Job gets completed, and after a Few Days, the Last Modified & Modified by Details are changed by Service-ID. So this should Not Happen. So the Expected Result is: Even though the ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Support for starting and stopping CP4D

I know that WKC offline backup is no longer supported in ver 4.6. In my environment, the "cpd-cli backup-restore quiesce" command was outputting an error for the wkc-foundationdb pod and cpd-cli was unable to stop CP4D. I am verifying development ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add sub folders for published rules

Information Analyzer comes out of the box with a series of data quality rules that are organized into folders. However, when a user publishes a user defined rule, we are not able to add or create folders. We need to ability to organize our publish...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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