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Search results: Governance

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Auto-update "Contained Relationships" of Physical Data model / Schema Relationships

In Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM), relationships can be defined between Physical Data Models (PDMs) and Implemented Data Resource (IDR) schemas. These relationships can have "Contained Relationships" which associate design tables with IDR tables wi...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

IGC New Welcome Page Customization

Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, state your current workaround(s), state any proposed solution(s), state the benefits/value this idea has, state # of users impacted and how often are they impacted In IGC Class...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

see information asset assignment trackable in workflow

According to guidance from Case TS001770322, assigning an information resource asset to an already published term does not initiate the workflow process.We need ALL change made in one term to start the workflow process as this results in a data go...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

Lineage support for File connector wildcard

Due to performance reasons, File connector reading Hadoop source must use wild card *. It is necessary ti support this use with IGC lineage. As data lineage results broken.
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

IA Data Rule unable to rename on IGC new UI console in V11.7

Currently with v11.7, they have introduced the IGC New console thin client to manage the IA part and it user friendly than the IA thick client. Future version thick client won't be used and available. So When User try to rename the IA data rule, i...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Governance Dashboard Enhancements

Existing Governance Dashboard (Cognos) reports shows the quality based on the number of records processed vs failed/passed records and against the Governance Policies and Governance Rules. Need Additional Reports for Data Quality and Metadata comp...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Import Area Data Connection Password Update

Import area data connection password could be updated via1. IMAM UI - reimport of assets have to be done with this option2. Update CSV file with new password in plain text format - security concern over plain text being entered on the CSV file
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Querying the Information Analyser Data in Information Governance Catalog

Our customer wants to take an action according to the quality analysis results regularly. We prepare a report for them but we cannot add some specific properties like "Min - Max Values" and "Last Quality Date". They want to compare the quality cha...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Planned for future release

sequence Contains Assets on Open IGC Data Integration 1.0

automatically for the order according to what I gave in the attachment based on Contains_Assets.jpg vs Contain_Assets_ETL.jpg is different
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Add an Option to not use sql alias in column_name

We have many jobs and projects reading an Oracle database table and use alias to map the column name in table into a new name (for new name in target table, or join with another data sets). When viewing in IGC the data lineage, there is a break (s...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 3 Not under consideration