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Knowledge Catalog

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Connection asset must show all data assets that are imported using the same connection

In the Catalog Workspace, For any given connected data asset, we can see the connection that are used to import the data asset. However the reverse relationship is not available. I.e., When we go to the connection, it does not show all the connect...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

WKC query functionality

As a data steward I would like to be able to query metadata about the assets that I own. As a data analyst I would like to be able to query information about a particular business term and its use.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Kafka and S3 interfaces

Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for S3 (or other object storage services) Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for Kafka (furthermore, I don't even think Kafka is a supported connection type at all in CP4...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Track changes made to Data Quality Rules

AEP is looking to track changes made to Data Quality rules. Data stewards are not aware of the changes being made to Data Quality rules, and they are stepping over each other's work as there is no way to track changes made to Data Quality rules. A...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Catalog limiting to 10 assets while adding to Projects

Verizon does bulk adding of assets from catalog to Projects. In 4.5.3 release the Catalog adding to projects limited to 10. Entered a SF ticket and the dev team asked us to create a AHA ticket and this is as per Design. Please extend it to 100 or ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Bulk metadata import and bulk business term and data class update in the WKC UI

Stewards and WKC Admins need the ability to bulk update business and technical metadata information, e.g. descriptions and names, from a UI using a CSV file. Should be able to use a CSV file specifying the category and artifact name (not the guid)...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Improved relationship explorer

WKC should have a relationship explorer that can easily visualize all links between any governance artifact all the way down to the source data User Story As a business user, I need to easily see how different governance artifacts are related to e...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to change date format display on date entry

When I am editing a business term and I choose to set a start or end date the format is in USA date format. This should be able to be changed to other formats for none USA deployments
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Quick Scan: table/asset business term assignment please

Quick Scan does not currently assign a business term to the table/asset level. It only assigns at the column level. Table level is needed as well. Ideally a table level term/class could be assigned and then a classification could be automatically ...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

#cpfield User able to see Terms from restricted Category on DQ Project

The user should not be able to see the Business terms when the user does not have access to a primary category during the manual term assignment in a DQ project.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration