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Knowledge Catalog

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Encryption/Decryption of columns

requested by Watson Health
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Quality Score in Catalog Search

Adding a column in the asset search window that shows the quality score of data assets (much like Watson Analytics and Data Connect do). This is extremely helpful as we can then create policies that don't allow users to use data assets below x sco...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Compose for Scylla Connector

Compose for Scylla is one of the Compose services on Bluemix. Adding it as a connector could help boost usage.
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Compose for Redis Connector

Compose for Redis is the Bluemix service and has the 3rd highest usage among other Compose services on Bluemix. Redis could be used in an application to emit data into streaming pipelines.
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under 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...
over 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.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

can we default the asset name, tags and include column metadata for relational data when adding to catalog through a connection to relational data

To make it quicker to populate a catalog, it would be great if there were defaults for asset names - based on the selected schema/table picked. This should also import the descriptions of the column names/types which will be useful for end user to...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Can we have tags be common across the account? instead of per subsystem of subsystem?

Right now, tags are not shared at all. each catalog has their own, a business glossary has their own, etc. etc. Tags, once created should be shareable to promote reuse and simplify the user experience across all of WDP.
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration