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Knowledge Catalog

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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 2 Planned for future release

Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Enable SubCategories to be moved from one Category to another without rebuilding the entire hierarchy

Customer data environments are somewhat fluid especially during the initial development/deployment of a knowledge catalog. A subcategory that is originally built under one category often needs to be moved to a different parent category. To do this...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Allow display of more than 50 governance artifacts

When we list the governance artifacts (e.g. data classes), it only shows the first 50 itens of the list and gives us the option to show the next 50 ones. We need it to show different subsets of itens (e.g. show 20 or 50 or 100 or x itens per page).
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Sort governance artifacts by all existent columns

Sort governance artifacts (data classes, business terms, etc.) by all existent columns (not only by "Name" and "Last modified").
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Preview Support for Hadoop and Hive with Kerberos

Customer has Hadoop / Hive with Kerberos/Ranger enabled and wants to run MDE and publish the results to a catalog. Ford connected to Hive and ran MDE and published to a catalog succsessfully. However, when Ford tries to preview data in the catalog...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Search result to be highlighted

Problem statement/pain point: Search with search bar in the main panel, return relevant asset list. But search does not provide information on where the search term hit the asset or the asset's metadata(e.g.asset name, description…). No workarou...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to strea...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Enable selection display or hide data item in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not select which items should be shown or hidden in table view. For exam...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release