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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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View Subcategory Governance Artifacts from a Higher Level Category Page

If you are in a category that contains subcategories, you currently can only see governance artifacts that are in that particular category as their primary category. It would be good to see all of the governance artifacts that are in its subcatego...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

To add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view.

We need other enhancements to add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view. When exceedingly large (i.e. millions and billions of rows), we need to look for primary and secondary keys, especially related to dates to add where conditi...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Needs more information

Allow to update the name and definition of built-in data quality dimensions or Hidden the built-in dimensions in English via API or Translate to the default browser´s language

IKC has built-in data quality dimensions' name and description only in English and it cannot be updated or hidden via API. But all IBM´s customers that don´t have English as their primary language must create new data quality dimensions in their p...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2

Bulk update for category management

It takes at least 7 mouse clicks to change the primary category for an governance asset. It would be more efficient to be able to multi-select assets (e.g., business terms or data classes) and then assign a new (primary) category. Use case example...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Primary Key and Relationship Analysis

Currently, through API CTC can only perform Primary Key and Relationship Key analyses for all assets in the enrichment area. We need an API through which we can select individual assets (within an enrichment area) for Primary Key and Relationship ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

#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.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Add Classifier Operation in Watson Knowledge Catalog

I have an opportunity at Honda for Knowledge Catalog in their back office operations team. This team is charged with ad-hoc reporting from a number of on premise data sources (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Excel Spreadsheets, Lotus Databases, etc). The...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists