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My votes: Knowledge Catalog

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WKC won't scan NESTED and REPEATED data_types in BigQuery

Nested Columns: WKC won't scan nested columnsBQ "Record" data type = Nested column Projects with nested columns are not ready for Go Live.Impact:• Will nullify nested columns• Some projects will be updated manually vs. others in WKC, so we'll be o...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Metadata import results

Currently, running a metadata import will result in adding new assets, updating the assets or removing them. While the first 2 actions are reflected in the catalog, if the assets are published there, for removed assets no action is taken. We would...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support Secure Gateway access to AWS S3 from Watson Studio (WKC, Refinery)

With Multi Cloud environments with AWS, S3 is "VPC"ed and usually does not allow to public access. To make use of WKC (Metadata) /Refinery (Actual Data) capabilities, Secure Gateway support to ISOCS Cluster which is "VPC"ed from IBM Cloud is requi...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Quick Scan: table/asset business term assignment please

Quick Scan does not currently assign a business term to the table/asset level. It only assigns at the column level. Table level is needed as well. Ideally a table level term/class could be assigned and then a classification could be automatically ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Require UI-based method for bulk data enrichment at scale

Review all columns at once for business terms and data classes instead of going column by column: - When MDE completed, customer wanted to update terms and data classes as simple as editing in excel. Currently you have to click for term assignment...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Quality output results in Google BigQuery

Customer needs to be able to store DQ output results into Google BigQuery and it is not part of IBM supported output databases.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom attributes to reference data

I have a customer BCBS of MN who would like to create custom fields for reference data. This will allow them to store more items than the standard out of the box fields.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Integration between GCP Catalog and WKC.

There is no integration currently between WKC and Google catalog. WKC can’t show Tags from Google catalog in WKC. WKC can’t show Query from a View when it is imported to Catalog.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Pushdown execution on Hadoop

Customer current Catalog tool(Informatica) supports Pushdown Execution/Computation on Hadoop clusters and they have dependencies on this, so for competitiveness...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration