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Option to create business terms or other governance artefacts in the category screen

When a user creates a category, it's possible to assign an existing business term to that newely created category, but it's not possible to create a business term here, as this is a common workflow to create a category and then add business terms ...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Problem adding stewards to business term attributes

After setting up access to CP4D for LDAP accounts, there was a problem of adding stewards to business term cards and providing users with access to catalogs. In the menu for adding stewards, there are only users who have logged into CP4D at least ...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Add a profiling status column in the catalog interface

There is no way to see the status of the profiling process in the catalog interface. Users for whom information protection rules are configured will not be able to see the contents of date assets until profiling ends. Administrators cannot quickly...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Required attributes of business terms cards

The customer asks to add a mark of mandatory attributes and comments to them. Of course we can check the filling of them using the workflow. But it would be more convenient if the user immediately saw the required fields for filling.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Analogue of collections in CP4D

We are migrating from the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to the IBM Cloud Pak for Date. In IGC there are collections (personal and shared). The customer asks to add an analogue of the collections.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Provide DDL of assets when analyze phase of automated discovery fails.

When analyze phase of automated discovery fails, providing DDL of assets helps users to understand and/or troubleshoot the issue. For example, a view assets could not be accessed for data anymore when some of its dependency table is not available....
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Data Discovery: add NPS to Connection type box when creating a new connection.

Not possible to add directly a NPS connection to Data Discovery. We have a workaround provided by IBM, first we have to create a NPS connection via Import Metadata.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

business term extraction for a FIPS enabled system

Even after the upgrade to 3.0.1/1.0.7.1, we are still not able to use the business term extraction tool. Just downloading/uploading the sample pdf provided on the UI gives us "Error Uploading File. Click here to try again." message.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Is a defect

Adding assets from the default catalog to individual catalogs

Operation is easier if you can select data assets and data connections that have business terms assigned to them from the default catalog and push them to individual data catalogs. Even if you automatically assign a term in data discovery, it refl...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Discovery fall out queues for generating new terms

When doing discovery and mapping the terms many of the fields can't be mapped to a term. It is not a matter of AI not doing its job but there is no appropriate term. This applies to the ones that have no term assignment During the discovery proces...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration