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Knowledge Catalog

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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...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Ability to reorganize Custom Properties, Classifications, Business Terms

Currently OOTB: 1- Custom properties are listed in alphabetical order 2- business terms and classifications are ordered by creation date We cannot change the order once it is assigned. Why it is important, For Example - we have assigned a Term whi...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Column level classification assignment

Customer wants to use "Classification" artifact type for PII instead of business term. Currently, we don't support classification assignment at column level, and also classifications are not auto-assigned and does not support ML. Since most of the...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Display of Null in Thick client showing as 'empty' in DQEC

When running a data quality rule in thick client and viewing the results, when there are results that have null values, we see NULL in the results view. However, when we view the same results in DQEC, it's just empty fields. I think this is just c...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Change order of items in Catalog UI

Requesting a custom sort feature in asset Business Term / Classification and Custom Properties sections so the user can define which order they are displayed in. This will help users see what's important to them higher in the list. Currently c...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Oracle thin client connection capabilities requiring specification of URL

We need to connect WKC to Oracle using Oracle Connection Manager using the JDBC thin client. This requires the ability to specify the connection URL with a significant string length. Currently when the Oracle connection type is specified there is ...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Connect to Azure DataBricks

Currently, Watson Knowledge Center does not support connection to Azure DataBricks. Please include that in further releases.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support for previewing images in Catalogs

As described in IBM documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=properties-previews#require-data , connected data assets must be structured data in order to be Previewed inside IKC. The only option to preview images i...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration