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Status Not under consideration
Components Governance
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 16, 2020

Inclusion of DBMS name for ODBC connector in IMAM of IIS Suite

We have requested IBM to find if there is way to input the DBMS name (as per the below link) in IMAM for ODBC connector.

- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.mmi.doc/topics/c_identity_parameters.html

The answer was NO. This DBMS name is coming the driver and currently this is not exposed to user. But, this option is available for BI bridges/connectors in IMAM. IBM suggested us to open a enhancement request.

Needed by Date Jul 31, 2020
  • Guest
    Aug 6, 2020

    Thanks for your idea. IBM go-forward Governance and Catalog tool is Watson Knowledge Catalog - and this extends IGC. This support will be considered for WKC in a future release. Please use the idea portal to share ideas with the Watson Knowledge Catalog OM team