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Knowledge Catalog

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Ability to restrict Custom Properties to a particular catalog

Custom Properties in UI cannot be restricted to a particular catalog (data set), however, this is supported currently when added via Watson Data API
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Column level classification assignment

Customer wants to use "Classification" artifact type for PII instead of business term. Currently, we don't support classification assignment at column level, and also classifications are not auto-assigned and does not support ML. Since most of the...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support Bulk Selection and Import/Export for Data Rule and Quality Rule

数据规则支持多选然后批量运行,质量规则支持批量的编辑、导入、导出。(Data rules support bulk selection and run, and quality rules support bulk editing, importing, and exporting.)
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Databricks JDBC connector support

Required for Canadian Tire using multiple parquet files in a folder. Need to be able to do MDI, MDE, and DQ rules through the connector.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to show Business Terms, Quality Scores, Data Rules, Stewards, etc...from a lineage graph

In IGC this was accomplished by creating a Template and applying that template to a lineage graph - when you downloaded the lineage to a pdf, the template was applied. Please see a sample of the pdf attached to this idea.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Have out of the box relationships (and their inverse from Data Asset to Governace Rule to Quality Rule

These out of the box relationships are used in regulatory compliance use cases for the Catalog - this is also a parity issue with existing IGC Users who utilize these relationships today. We need to have a relationships as below: Data Asset-->G...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Optimize performance of WKC and Guardium to minimize the latency

Optimize performance of Guardium E-STAP and minimize the latency overhead (130ms) currently being seen during WKC/GDP MVP for large customer - Optimization considers on all components of solution should be considered (i.e. WKC pooling/caching, get...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support Secure Gateway access to AWS S3 from Watson Studio (WKC, Refinery)

With Multi Cloud environments with AWS, S3 is "VPC"ed and usually does not allow to public access. To make use of WKC (Metadata) /Refinery (Actual Data) capabilities, Secure Gateway support to ISOCS Cluster which is "VPC"ed from IBM Cloud is requi...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Quick Scan: table/asset business term assignment please

Quick Scan does not currently assign a business term to the table/asset level. It only assigns at the column level. Table level is needed as well. Ideally a table level term/class could be assigned and then a classification could be automatically ...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release