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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Enhanced Data Export File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data export functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data destinations. Proposed Solution: Expand Reference data export capabilities to support a wider ra...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Data Import File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data import functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data sources. Proposed Solution: Expand RDM's data import capabilities to support a wider range of co...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Rejecting rows that contain custom property validation errors during csv upload

When we want to perform inserts or updates to many business terms (eg: 1000s) we have the option to use bulk upload CSV. We would prefill the CSV with data including those defined custom properties. However, during the upload, some custom properti...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Ability to link Data Quality Rules to Governance Rules (Similar to in IGC)

Need ability to link Data Quality Rules to Governance Rules (Similar to in IGC), this option not available in UI in 4.6.3 version
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

CP4D – Custom Property Creation – Predefined Values Linked to RDS

When creating a custom property for an asset or artifact that is of property type predefined values, currently the list of predefined values cannot be linked to a reference data set, i.e. the list of RDS values is the list of predefined values tha...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

CSV format should cover all properties of Business Glossary to import them outside of catalog in CP4D V2.5 or later.

CP4D V2.1 allows Data Steward to import categories and business terms by using not only CSV format but also XML/XMI outside of catalog. XML/XMI format covers all properties of business glossary. - Import and export file formathttps://www.ibm.com/s...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

IKC Policy enhancement with AI

Extend the functionality of policies in CP4D by using AI to automatically propose actionable governance and protection rules based on a data governance policy. The current policy management feature in CP4D is limited to capturing a policy (or sub-...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Run Metadata import for SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service) Data Source

Add the ability to run MDI on the given data source. IKC supports some import metadata types, but not this one specifically.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists