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Knowledge Catalog

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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

Bring "Notes" information in column details

Bring "Notes" information in column details for a column imported from a physical data model.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Add connection type and server in catalog filter

When we filter assets in the catalog, besides the source, add the option of filtering by connection type (e.g. Db2, Teradata, etc.) and by server.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Show column type in PDM (physical data model) list

Have the column type information when showing the physical data model in the catalog.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

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

Enable the creation of custom governance artifacts using IBM Knowledge Catalog

This is a required capability to meet the requirements of Data Governance Processes at the customer. They want to use this custom artifact to model a concept similar to a "subject area", which needs specific attributes to be meaningful for their d...
29 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Support to use User Session and LDAP Fields as parameter in the Where field of Data Protection Rule Filter Rows option.

We have a big client testing Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, Watson Query to be their data platform. One important use case is use the protection rule feature > filter rows option in a Where Condition field allows to pass user session or LDAP fields a...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need API/Option to get deleted governance artifact details from trash similar to data assets

We need API/Option to get deleted governance artifact details from trash similar to data assets
24 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration