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Knowledge Catalog

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Lineage metadata captured in Manta from Cognos and Informatica Power Center prior to CP4D 4.7.x upgrade should be imported to WKC.

Manta is able to analyze many more source than CP4D can currently import. Owners of the CP4D+Manta license should be able to take full advantage of Manta's capabilities with confidence that the work will not have to be redone later.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Some of the user accounts - show up as Unavailable and doesn't point to a specific name/user

Whenever the user left the organization user names get removed from LDAP but not in Catalog automatically and its getting displayed as unavailable without pointing to any user name. Attaching image for your reference.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Old users are still part of all the catalogs and projects even after moved away from organization.

After user left the organization and user is been removed from ADOM group the ICP4D needs to have the capability to remove the users, but what could be the consequences like if the left user has any assets or projects or catalogs associated with h...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Unable to see the Metadata imported Assets while performing Different Metadata Enrichment Job’s in the same project.

Present Design Function: We can create only 1 Enrichment for any imported asset. In same project we cannot use same asset for multiple enrichment jobs. If we want to enrich the same asset, we need to select that specific asset& enrich it, whic...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Write permissions on properties based on roles

As a data steward I would like to only allow specific properties to be edited but specific users. eg. a data quality officer to only be able to link a data quality rule to my asset. A data protection officer to only be able to edit classification ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Creation of Business Terms from Cognos Assets

It should be possible to create business terms based on a imported data model or Cognos report artefacts to speed up the process of developing a business glossar. As the documentation of Cognos Reports/key figures, dimensions is one of the use cas...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Require UI-based method for bulk data enrichment at scale

Review all columns at once for business terms and data classes instead of going column by column: - When MDE completed, customer wanted to update terms and data classes as simple as editing in excel. Currently you have to click for term assignment...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Quality output results in Google BigQuery

Customer needs to be able to store DQ output results into Google BigQuery and it is not part of IBM supported output databases.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration