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Required attributes of business terms cards

The customer asks to add a mark of mandatory attributes and comments to them. Of course we can check the filling of them using the workflow. But it would be more convenient if the user immediately saw the required fields for filling.
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Analogue of collections in CP4D

We are migrating from the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to the IBM Cloud Pak for Date. In IGC there are collections (personal and shared). The customer asks to add an analogue of the collections.
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

LOAD utility support for removable media / TAPE for WORKDDN, SYSUT1 and SORTOUT

"... The LOAD utility WORKDDN data sets, SYSUT1 and SORTOUT, are multi-use datasets. When a very large table is loaded, it is sometimes necessary to use a tape device for these datasets. The problem is if error or discard processing is invoked, th...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide DDL of assets when analyze phase of automated discovery fails.

When analyze phase of automated discovery fails, providing DDL of assets helps users to understand and/or troubleshoot the issue. For example, a view assets could not be accessed for data anymore when some of its dependency table is not available....
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Data Discovery: add NPS to Connection type box when creating a new connection.

Not possible to add directly a NPS connection to Data Discovery. We have a workaround provided by IBM, first we have to create a NPS connection via Import Metadata.
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

business term extraction for a FIPS enabled system

Even after the upgrade to 3.0.1/1.0.7.1, we are still not able to use the business term extraction tool. Just downloading/uploading the sample pdf provided on the UI gives us "Error Uploading File. Click here to try again." message.
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Is a defect

Allow COPY with Templates to pick TAPE or DASD based on RTS

We are creating intraday Image Copy jobs that may contain a mix of small and large tables. We use Templates and Include/Exclude to determine which objects should go to TAPE and which should go to DASD. The threshold for what determines large or sm...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Adding assets from the default catalog to individual catalogs

Operation is easier if you can select data assets and data connections that have business terms assigned to them from the default catalog and push them to individual data catalogs. Even if you automatically assign a term in data discovery, it refl...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

C&DS uploaded file quota enhancement by Bank of China

This enhancement request comes from CaDS customer Bank of China. They have quite a few general CaDS users, so the administrator wants to set the threshold and limit the single file size for general user upload to CaDS repository. The administrator...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Document permissions to update Deployment Manager client install when fixpacks or packages are applied to the C&DS server.

User has a existing installation of Deployment Manager client. Either a new package (ex: Modeler Adapters) or a Fixpack is applied to the Collaboration and Deployment Services Server. When the users deployment manager client first connects to the ...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration