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Knowledge Catalog

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Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add custom relationship towards reference data value - now there is only custom relationship towards reference data

I want to create a custom relationship from category to reference data value. At the moment that is not possible. I can create a relationship towards the whole reference data set, but not the individual values. For a term it is possible to create ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Adding primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns to IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer

IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer does not display the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns currently even thought the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns can be identified by Metada...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Configurable Caching for Published Asset Previews in Catalogs

Reference: IBM Case TS017201519 – Slow Loading of Published Assets in Catalog Background: We have been facing performance issues when previewing published assets in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). During periods of heavy usage, the preview loading ti...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Activity log for table updates

Show activity logs for tables published in the catalog (e.g. show table updates, name of the column recently added, date of the column deletion, etc.).
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists