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Knowledge Catalog

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Show column type in PDM (physical data model) list

Have the column type information when showing the physical data model in the catalog.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Allow display of more than 50 governance artifacts

When we list the governance artifacts (e.g. data classes), it only shows the first 50 itens of the list and gives us the option to show the next 50 ones. We need it to show different subsets of itens (e.g. show 20 or 50 or 100 or x itens per page).
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

CSV format should cover all properties of Business Glossary to import them outside of catalog in CP4D V2.5 or later.

CP4D V2.1 allows Data Steward to import categories and business terms by using not only CSV format but also XML/XMI outside of catalog. XML/XMI format covers all properties of business glossary. - Import and export file formathttps://www.ibm.com/s...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Sort governance artifacts by all existent columns

Sort governance artifacts (data classes, business terms, etc.) by all existent columns (not only by "Name" and "Last modified").
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Preview Support for Hadoop and Hive with Kerberos

Customer has Hadoop / Hive with Kerberos/Ranger enabled and wants to run MDE and publish the results to a catalog. Ford connected to Hive and ran MDE and published to a catalog succsessfully. However, when Ford tries to preview data in the catalog...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Simultaneously modifying and deleting governance artifacts and asset

On IGC (11.x) -WKC (4.x) migration projects. Clients developed lots of query that they use to search (with many filters) governance artifacts and asset. They also use this feature to bulk modify and delete the searched data. The search phase could...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration