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Knowledge Catalog

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Add "issues" function to assets in the Knowledge Catalog

Allow users to add multiple "issues" to assets inside the Knowledge Catalog similar to how one would add issues to a file in a Git repo. This can be used to keep track of outstanding problems with an asset, document limitations, add requirements e...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 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...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add Classifier Operation in Watson Knowledge Catalog

I have an opportunity at Honda for Knowledge Catalog in their back office operations team. This team is charged with ad-hoc reporting from a number of on premise data sources (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Excel Spreadsheets, Lotus Databases, etc). The...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Disable download button in Knowledge Catalog

When cataloging data assets from COS, users are given a 'Download' option to bring the data out from the catalog and store locally. There should be an option to enable/disable this functionality provided to administrators of the catalog and the us...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 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...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Data Catalog dynamic IP address frustrates IP address security filters in remote clouds and on-premise systems.

I'm testing the Data Catalog's ability to access a remote(to IBM's cloud) relational database. I provisioned a NoSQL database using AWS RDS service. I wanted to set the AWS security group to only permit access from the IP address used by the Data ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Data Catalog: Deny ability to publish data assets when asset with same name already exists in the catalog

Currently the WDP - Data Catalog allows any user of a project to publish any data asset and will always create a new set of assets. In my case when working with the catalog, I published the SAME data asset multiple times to my catalog because I wa...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos. Al...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

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