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Hi, any option to add to profiling stats quartiles and percentiles, density, selectivity, sequence

I have some customer's request to provide additional statistics as result of profiling with: quartiles , percentiles, density, selectivity, sequence
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Issue with DQ Rules for TIMESTAMP Data Type

We have compared data from Snowflake (SF) and IA. So when we bring in a table from SF into IA it is updating any column that is a data type “Timestamp” and the value for that column ends with a “0” Changing the value for the column to add a “T” wh...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Request to have a refresh icon in the catalogs assets column section.

When we navigate to catalog asset page there we are able to see all the details of the asset like column section, business terms and governance artifacts. Now when we are trying to update a business term in the column section to see the updated re...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Creation of Business Terms from Cognos Assets

It should be possible to create business terms based on a imported data model or Cognos report artefacts to speed up the process of developing a business glossar. As the documentation of Cognos Reports/key figures, dimensions is one of the use cas...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Catalog Admins should be able to manage Private Assets

Currenty only Asset Owners or Members can view a Private Asset. Admins should be able to take the same actions on private assets as public assets. Admins of a catalog should be able to see private assets to ensure that the correct asset members ar...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

usable error report in the csv upload function

when there are errors in any csv upload into WKC the error report is not usable as the copy to clipboard function no longer separates the errors to individual line. this used to be a properly working function but we have been advised that is no lo...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Support CP4D-WKC on Linux on z

We have a few Z customers in Canada who are currently evaluating a data fabric architecture of having a central data catalog. These customers are currently running Linux on Z (IFLs) and would absolutely prefer the platform to run CP4D for producti...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration