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Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Download option for artifacts import summary

Hi Team, After importing the artifacts (business terms/ data classes or more) through csv file, the import summary didn't have the download option that client is expecting. Please add download option for import error report. Client imported the da...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

MANTA should script Data Lineage of PL/1 Program as same as Cobol!

Customer uses PL/1 with Db2-Commandos which should be Data Lineaged!
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Need filter on every column and sort functionality in MDI/MDE Screen

WKC MDI/MDE screen is not user friendly. It does not allow to filter any columns or sort function is not there. during the troubleshooting, we are not able to dissect any tables other than manually look at each page. we have MDI's which are too la...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Enable reporting feature through API

Do we have any set of API's for the reporting feature to start reporting programmatically from the code level.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Change the order of the items in the category sidebar

Please find the screenshots in the attachments. The customer hopes that they can change the order easily in the category sidebar such as by dragging. Even when they do the reordering in the csv and then import the file to the category, the reorder...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

MDI Job to eliminate System tables

So when we run an MDI Job by selecting all the Schemas available in the Connected Data Source, after the MDI Completes the Job status gets failed & when we try to troubleshoot by navigating into the Job we can see it is failed due to of System...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2

Add sub folders for published rules

Information Analyzer comes out of the box with a series of data quality rules that are organized into folders. However, when a user publishes a user defined rule, we are not able to add or create folders. We need to ability to organize our publish...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Request to have a Trash/Bin Option/Area inside a Project or Catalog

Having a Bin/Trash Section/Area inside a Project or Catalog can be really helpful. If unfortunately, if any one deletes the Connection or asset’s or any other inside a project or Catalog, we can restore them very quickly without any impact. Real-t...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release