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Knowledge Catalog

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Automation rules which dynamically apply a DQ rule based on if then else criteria

Automated way of creating standard rules that can be implemented accross different source systems
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Active Metadata Management, Tool successfully recognizes change in schema metadata, initiates workflow

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to react on certain metadata changes, so that I do not miss actions items required from my end. I want the tool to automate some of my actions via workflows
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Rule Management and Data Validation

Ability to provide Natural Language Processing for stewards to create data quality rules
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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

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

Alpha sorting of details against business terms and a filter option

if a business term has multiple categories, related terms or related articles there is no option to sort the details and they are in order of how they have been added/assigned to that term. current work around is having to export to excel, copy in...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release