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Expansion of Data Dictionary to Include Non-Connected Assets and APIs

The UI should provide basic import capabilities to allow assets to be created/maintained in the data dictionary from metadata provided in .csv format (or similar). These assets may or may not have associated connection information in CP4D but shou...
about 1 month ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
about 1 month ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

A feature to display all the Assets counts in WKC Reporting UI

A feature to display all the Assets Counts in WKC Reporting UI, instead of validating it from 2 different places like UI & DB. Real life Scenario: Let say I have a Catalog with 1400 data assets, Then I ran a reporting feature on the catalog to...
about 1 month ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future 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.
about 2 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

WKC - Metadata Crawler to import lineage Information for standalone DataStage installation

WKC in CPD can not display operational lineage for DataStage implementations in a remote environment. We will request the option to extract/crawl lineage relevant information that can be easily automated integrated in WKC without exporting from Da...
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC - Metadata Import of Cognos Assets should also include calculations and expressions performed in Cognos

Currently just the data flow through the imported Cognos artifacts is visible in Information Asset View and Data Lineage. As there is also business logic and KPI calculation in Cognos this information is also important for the Business User analyz...
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Publish Assets from WKC to Watson Studio consistently

Follwing the idea, that data assets have been added and documented in WKC and then pushed to projects that need this data assets, there is a great gap in functionality: when pushing an asset a second (or third...) time to a project, e.g. after the...
6 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release