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Knowledge Catalog

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Restrict view access on Data Catalog (Overview)

If a Rule restricts/blocks a certain table or asset from an account, the account should not be able to see the table appear at all in the catalog. E.g. There is a Rule that denies access to data for assets with 'Data Vault' assigned to it and this...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

rules applied to each user

For each governance rules that are applied to the user, there should be a place to see the consolidated rules applied to the user
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

parse json to store each parameter as a column in CP4D Data Catalog

When we try to import json from elasticdb, CP4d put the whole array list in one column but we will like to parse the json to store each parameter as a separate column in CP4D so we can properly document the business term and data class
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Only add and synchronize wanted columns

Following TS014727232 At the present time, we are obliged to add the whole table instead of the few columns we really want.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Change the order of the items in the category sidebar

Please find the screenshots in the attachments. The customer hopes that they can change the order easily in the category sidebar such as by dragging. Even when they do the reordering in the csv and then import the file to the category, the reorder...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

The search bar on the catalog should show exactly matched contents only

***This is an idea about the search bar on the catalog.*** ***This is not an idea about the black search bar on top of the CP4D WEB console window.*** <Background> User register some Business Terms and Tags using Japanese language in the C...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Track changes made to Data Quality Rules

AEP is looking to track changes made to Data Quality rules. Data stewards are not aware of the changes being made to Data Quality rules, and they are stepping over each other's work as there is no way to track changes made to Data Quality rules. A...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Support for previewing images in Catalogs

As described in IBM documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=properties-previews#require-data , connected data assets must be structured data in order to be Previewed inside IKC. The only option to preview images i...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration