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Add terms in IKC to Automatic term assignment

Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for [automatic] term assignment’ –From IBM Documentation. Can we have the option to consider these for ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable ability to enforce duplicate prevention of data assets between catalogs.

There is currently no way to enforce the prevention of duplicate assets between catalogs.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Capability to specify workflow trigger based on the object attribute changes (minor change vs major change)

Two different solutions options: 1. Criticality of the attribute change will be defined based on mandatory vs optional attributes 2. In workflow configuration view, user can select relavant attributes to trigger the workflow
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Reference data sets - product only supports a 2-tier hierarchy. Make it 3-tier for reference files

Having a 3-tier hierarchy for certain columns will help us to have different values/standards across domains even though the few codes and values are same between domains we want to have it's own group.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

UI option to export the Enrichment from Cloud Pak

Exporting the enrichment results to a excel/csv will help business and other teams to review the results and compare them against each other along with confidence level on assigning/suggesting the business terms, classifications, data classes and ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support to use User Session and LDAP Fields as parameter in the Where field of Data Protection Rule Filter Rows option.

We have a big client testing Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, Watson Query to be their data platform. One important use case is use the protection rule feature > filter rows option in a Where Condition field allows to pass user session or LDAP fields a...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add custom relationship towards reference data value - now there is only custom relationship towards reference data

I want to create a custom relationship from category to reference data value. At the moment that is not possible. I can create a relationship towards the whole reference data set, but not the individual values. For a term it is possible to create ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Filtering Catalogs assets by custom attribute values

In our current IGC setup, we have the functionality to create custom attributes and allows users to filter the catalog by these custom attributes. On the catalog screen, example users can select the database asset type and then filter results usin...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release