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Knowledge Catalog

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WKC needs to allow specification of access policies at the folder level within a data asset

a) We need to be able to set an access policy for a whole table that might be represented by multiple parquet files in a folder. b) We need to be able to set an access policy for all the files in a bucket.
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

WKC recognizes multiple files in a bucket as a single data asset,

We need this because we want to be able to enter metadata only and access policies once for all files that comprise a data source. Specific examples: a) Uploading multiple pdfs needs to be able to store pdfs for a particular geo in a folder. Th...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Show description of data asset by Magazine view in Knowledge Catalog data asset list

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points The customer can't see the data asset description in Knowledge Catalog's data asset list. -state your current workaround(s) Now the customer see the description by opening t...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Show more info on asset in the Knowledge Catalog

In general the information shown on any asset in the Knowledge Catalog UI is fairly minimal, both on the overview page as well as the details page. Consider adding: - size information for files - record count information for data base tables etc...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Removing a data asset from a project or catalog does not delete it from COS

Whenever a data asset gets removed from either a Watson Studio Project or a Watson Knowledge Catalog the actual file is not removed from the underlying Cloud Object Storage bucket. The result is that there will be a lot of unreferenced files in C...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add from Catalog sometimes adds Connection and Asset, sometimes just Asset

We noticed that when adding a Data Asset from a Catalog into a Watson Studio Project it sometimes just adds the Data Asset into the project while sometimes it adds the Data Asset and a Connection into the project. It's not obvious what causes the...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Add "issues" function to assets in the Knowledge Catalog

Allow users to add multiple "issues" to assets inside the Knowledge Catalog similar to how one would add issues to a file in a Git repo. This can be used to keep track of outstanding problems with an asset, document limitations, add requirements e...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Tags multiple assets at once in the Knowledge Catalog

When using the multi select in the browse-asset view in the Catalog a user would like to tag multiple assets at once. Currently the mult-select can be used to move multiple assets to a project, or to remove them, but they cannot be tagged as a sin...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Share WKC assets to external account projects

An enterprise wants to share a set of assets among a set of collaborator companies. As a the main company CDO I alllow collaborators to use my data in a policy enabled catalog, but I want each collaborator pays for its compute usage, generate new ...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release