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Knowledge Catalog

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Ability to support automated data certification (e.g. gold, silver, bronze)

Automated process for data certification, based on data profiling/quality assessment (Data Certification – based on data profiling/quality result and standards update metadata with proper certification rank)
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Automation rules which dynamically apply a DQ rule based on if then else criteria

Automated way of creating standard rules that can be implemented accross different source systems
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Active Metadata Management, Tool successfully recognizes change in schema metadata, initiates workflow

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to react on certain metadata changes, so that I do not miss actions items required from my end. I want the tool to automate some of my actions via workflows
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Rule Management and Data Validation

Ability to provide Natural Language Processing for stewards to create data quality rules
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to restrict Custom Properties to a particular catalog

Custom Properties in UI cannot be restricted to a particular catalog (data set), however, this is supported currently when added via Watson Data API
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Column level classification assignment

Customer wants to use "Classification" artifact type for PII instead of business term. Currently, we don't support classification assignment at column level, and also classifications are not auto-assigned and does not support ML. Since most of the...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

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

Native WKC Databricks Unity connector

As we move to leveraging data in Azure, we need to be able to connect to that data from Watson Knowledge Catalog so we can govern and enrich the data. We currently have a short-term solution for connecting WKC to Databricks Unity catalog using the...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

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