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Knowledge Catalog

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Data Protection Rule should not be editable by other except the user who created it.

When a Steward with the Manage Data Protection rule permission creates a Data protection rule and applies the rule on the column name, User who is restricted cannot see the column, however when the same user who is restricted can go to the rule an...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Lineage metadata captured in Manta from Cognos and Informatica Power Center prior to CP4D 4.7.x upgrade should be imported to WKC.

Manta is able to analyze many more source than CP4D can currently import. Owners of the CP4D+Manta license should be able to take full advantage of Manta's capabilities with confidence that the work will not have to be redone later.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Databricks JDBC connector support

Required for Canadian Tire using multiple parquet files in a folder. Need to be able to do MDI, MDE, and DQ rules through the connector.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Transfer metadata enrichment from one to another exactly similar asset from another connection

If MDE is done on a connected data asset is there a way to transfer all enrichment (e.g., data clsses, auto term assignments, etc.) to another connected data asset with exactly same metadata b ut different connection?
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Some of the user accounts - show up as Unavailable and doesn't point to a specific name/user

Whenever the user left the organization user names get removed from LDAP but not in Catalog automatically and its getting displayed as unavailable without pointing to any user name. Attaching image for your reference.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Old users are still part of all the catalogs and projects even after moved away from organization.

After user left the organization and user is been removed from ADOM group the ICP4D needs to have the capability to remove the users, but what could be the consequences like if the left user has any assets or projects or catalogs associated with h...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 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...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Unable to see the Metadata imported Assets while performing Different Metadata Enrichment Job’s in the same project.

Present Design Function: We can create only 1 Enrichment for any imported asset. In same project we cannot use same asset for multiple enrichment jobs. If we want to enrich the same asset, we need to select that specific asset& enrich it, whic...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration