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Knowledge Catalog

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Allow user to specify catalog as the target for automatically discovered data assets

Currently when user checks the option to discover data assets on a connection, the discovered data assets are always added to a (staging) project first, with expectation that the user will then go to the project, and then select the ones he wishes...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Support REST as an asset source in WDP Data Catalog

In attempting to build a business metrics and analytics dashboard we are finding many of our data sources can only be accessed through a REST api. Because of this we are unable to use the catalog to manage the sources from within WDP. Adding suppo...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

should be able to view more assets in catalog UI

default for catalog shows 4 assets.if you collapse the "recent" it almost shows 10. So if there is 100, what shows? what 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M. This is way to few since we expect catalogs to be well populated to be useful.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Custom attribute value doing a live lookup on the table, instead of predefined value

This functionality is for the Custom Attribute to be able to connect to a database and then read the data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed (searchable) so that the user can search by typing visually. The other requi...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Continued support for OpenIGC for all future versions of WKC

Many customers have invested significant resources to build custom metadata and lineage integration to custom and 3rd party applications using OpenIGC. With the planned removal of IGC components from WKC, these customers would be faced with signif...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Request Data Preview Capability in Default Catalog through Generic JDBC

Customer requests 'data preview' function in Default Catalog via Generic JDBC, thereby, data asset can be previewed for database type that doesn’t support by CP4D-WKC in the current stage. (As far as we know only about 3 databases are supported)
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Synchronizing Automated Discovery on S3 assets to Default Catalog

Now automated discovery on S3 assets does not synchronize to catalog.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Displaying the category hierarchy as a tree

When working with a business glossary, it is not enough to display the category hierarchy in the form of a tree. Navigating through categories is very difficult without it.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Support groups in rules, catalogs and categories.

We really need to be able to use local roles and / or groups LDAP in all interfaces of access settings in CP4D. Now only specific users can be specified.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Rely on Cloud IAM to control individualized access to IBM Cloud assets

The Cloud Platform has made a significant investment in IAM enablement over the past year as part of the One Cloud work. I think we could do a better job of leveraging this system in Catalog to help users create a secure, well-governed data lake. ...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered