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Knowledge Catalog

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Request searching function when creating data rule from data rule definition

Customer need searching function when creating data rule from data rule definition as it's hard to find out the right one when hundreds rule definition listed there
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Informatica bridge for Linux version

Customer would like to use CP4D to view lineage for Informatica BDM. We provide a bridge solution on windows. But customer doesn’t allow windows in production environment. and learnt only windows version is a formal release in the future. currentl...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Notify stewards when someone comments

Current behaviour: you can comment on a data class within WKC but the steward of that class doesn't get notified (bell on main landing page). User would expect that a steward gets notified when they comment on one of their assets/artifacts. For ex...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Preview function Support for Greenplum in 'default catalog'

PMR feedback: only the following connections in the data preview is supported in default catalog: • Db2 (native and JDBC connections) • Oracle (JDBC connections) • Teradata (JDBC connections Customer ’s data source is Greenplum, which is not on th...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Identify Flat File - Import of CSV using headers or file sample / also in batch manner

Right now my understanding is there are 2 ways to import csv files. The file connector and the Information Analyzer identify flat file. The file connector is cumbersome because i have to describe every column 1 by 1 and it is not really feasible w...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Improving the bridge FileSystem OpenIGC bridge to import Excel file with File Name and Folder

Only one bridge (is FileSystem in OpenIGC bridge) can import Excel file. But with this bridge, there are no File name and Folder hierarchy imported to IGC. Need improve it to more useful metadata to end users.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add response headers

The document from - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/usage-tracking-ibm-infosphere-information-governance-catalog. Describes a method of adding scripting to all pages by adding an html page to the body of the html response. Modern browsers do not...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Allow WKC host strings to be changed

The context string for an Information Asset is built from the connection string components. EX: the Hostname dcxidavknx003.epg.zzz.yy.com on port 1234 using a jdbc connector results in the context string jdbc:ibm:hive://dcxidavknx003.epg.zzz.yy.co...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Flexibility to Custom Attribute

在资产的自定义属性界面添加自定义属性时,允许用户搜索并勾选特定的资产(如术语)名字或者类别,然后该自定义属性仅被添加到被选中的资产(如术语)上 (When adding a custom attribute in the asset custom attribute interface, users are allowed to search and check the name or category of a specific asset (such as term), and the...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration