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Ability to show Business Terms, Quality Scores, Data Rules, Stewards, etc...from a lineage graph

In IGC this was accomplished by creating a Template and applying that template to a lineage graph - when you downloaded the lineage to a pdf, the template was applied. Please see a sample of the pdf attached to this idea.
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Have out of the box relationships (and their inverse from Data Asset to Governace Rule to Quality Rule

These out of the box relationships are used in regulatory compliance use cases for the Catalog - this is also a parity issue with existing IGC Users who utilize these relationships today. We need to have a relationships as below: Data Asset-->G...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Tree Map Visualization missing Master Detail option

The report has a list and tree map, and has a page set defined on County. Master-detail relationship has been added to show County level data page/tab-wise. The list shows the expected results. However the Tree Map does not support a master-detail...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable filter option for Name column in Paltform Application Center

Need a filter on Name column in PAC GUI. User want to apply name filter to see the jobs among listed (1000) jobs in single a page.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Planned for future release

Crawl pages that are password protected

As a user if I have a directory of documents or web pages that are password protected I would like the web crawler to index these documents
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Add Exasol to the supported Databases

Currently IBM Modeler does not support Exasol as Database. But we are able to connect the Database with an native ODBC-driver. Given the case we are forced to use Exasol instead of Oracle-DB, we will loose a lot of Performance. Exasol tried to fix...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Delta Tables

As extensive users of ADLS, we need the ability to run data quality checks against assets in Delta Tables format on ADLS.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Add capability to disable content sniffing in MDM Web Applications (Inspector, Web Report, Enterprise Viewer)

MDM v11.6.0.11 provides Inspector, Web Report and Enterprise Viewer which are running on WAS v9.0.5.4. There is no way in MDM Web Applications to set 'X-Content-Type-Options' HTTP header with the value nosniff. This can make the web applications v...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add default entities like location and amount

The Watson conversation service has the ability to identify both numeric digits and numeric text. I would like the NLU service to have these default entities supported so that I can train models in Knowledge studio with both text and digits. Curre...
about 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 2 Planned for future release