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Knowledge Catalog

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Enable enterprise WKC tags

WKC separately manages tags on assets and artifacts in the tables asset_tags and artifact_tags. There is also a tags table that contains one unique tag name for any other tags used in assets or artifacts. However, the tags are not available across...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Customized abbreviation dictionary to improve data class assignment and searching for business terms

Capabilites similar to Erwin and other data modelling tools in which abbreviations can be expanded for search and for field name recognition. Ideally, each field could also have an automatic "expanded" or un-abbreviated alias. Column name ABS_VAL ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Project level selection of data rules that supports asking what rules are bound to a column, what columns use a rule definition etc.

We would like to be able to directly select the columns to which a particular rule is bound. It seems like this could be supported in the current selection interface for new style projects. We would also like to be able to go the other way and see...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Ability to set defaults for data rules

We would like to be able to set global, personal, and project defaults for data rules. Project-level defaults would be highest priority. This should include output tables, sampling etc. This would make rule creation more efficient and consistent.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Capability to rollback a governance change

Demonstrate how changes to business terms are tracked, ability to revert to a previous version
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Relate underlying assets to the connection

Capture not only metadata on object level (say, a DB table), but on DB schema level, to preserve understanding of connections between the tables, so that users may identify connected metadata objects based on the underlying DB schema
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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