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Knowledge Catalog

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Pause all scheduled project jobs

similar to idea UNIFIEDCAT-I-558, we have multiple scheduled MDI/MDE/DQ jobs all with various schedules. During WKC or source system maintenance windows or outages or to pause WKC cluster resource usage we need one global option to pause all sched...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Nulls should display correctly in Frequency Distribution

Currently in a Data Quality, Frequency Distribution for an asset created by legacy COBOL on mainframe, the field may contain spaces or main contain Low Values (Hex 00) character. Currently WKC displays any non-printable character as "Spaces". In t...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Need a WKC API to add or modify terms to several columns with different terms in each column using a single API call.

Details: We need the WKC API to add or modify terms to several columns with different terms in each column using a single API call. With this functionality, excessive API calls for a single data asset will be avoided. The terms of entire columns i...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Performance metrics and sizing performance for CP4D and the DB2 internal repository being used for reporting and data quaality rules not met data.

Performance metrics and sizing performance for CP4D and the DB2 internal instance repository being used for reporting and data quality rules not met data.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Custom property (threshold) for dq rule in the project not showing within UI

As a Data Steward, I have to be able to specify threshold for each rule and tool should be able to display the level of confidence
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enable enterprise WKC tags

WKC separately manages tags on assets and artifacts in the tables asset_tags and artifact_tags. There is also a tags table that contains one unique tag name for any other tags used in assets or artifacts. However, the tags are not available across...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Project level selection of data rules that supports asking what rules are bound to a column, what columns use a rule definition etc.

We would like to be able to directly select the columns to which a particular rule is bound. It seems like this could be supported in the current selection interface for new style projects. We would also like to be able to go the other way and see...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Relate underlying assets to the connection

Capture not only metadata on object level (say, a DB table), but on DB schema level, to preserve understanding of connections between the tables, so that users may identify connected metadata objects based on the underlying DB schema
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration