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Knowledge Catalog

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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

Support to use User Session and LDAP Fields as parameter in the Where field of Data Protection Rule Filter Rows option.

We have a big client testing Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, Watson Query to be their data platform. One important use case is use the protection rule feature > filter rows option in a Where Condition field allows to pass user session or LDAP fields a...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

SAS datasets for IKC Data Quality Requirements

We have a new customer request for analyzing SAS dataset( in .sas7bdat format) in IKC for Data Quality requirements. As per IBM point of contact for us, this connector is not available in IKC now. Requesting to add this connector in CP4D future re...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

[GOV] ICP4D v.4.8.5 PROD Env (MDI) - Need option to skip asset/column description while publishing the project assets to catalog.

MDI Scan: Column description overwrites description in Catalog. Issue replication: Table and column description created through hydration job is being replaced after MDI Scan and publish in WKC "GCP for marketplace catalog". Expectation: Stop over...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' secti...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

More filtering options in categories search

Hi, could you please add more filtering options in categories view search? Currently user can only search top level categories without any properties.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Add a feature to assign data classes based on the assigned business term, with the option to choose the behavior of data class assignment.

This enhancement would involve reconfiguring the data class assignment service to operate based on the business term assigned to each asset. Users should have the flexibility to select how data classes are assigned: either following the default be...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Monitor resource consupmtion per project on IKC

It is requested that the monitoring dahsboards of Cloud Pak for Data can display the resource consumption of the activities performed by IKC, including data quality rules, metadata enrichments, metadata import, etc. It should be consistent with th...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration