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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Creation of Business Terms from Cognos Assets

It should be possible to create business terms based on a imported data model or Cognos report artefacts to speed up the process of developing a business glossar. As the documentation of Cognos Reports/key figures, dimensions is one of the use cas...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 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

Nulls should display correctly in Frequency Distribution

Currently in a Data Quality, Frequency Distribution for an asset created by legacy COBOL on mainframe, the field may contain spaces or main contain Low Values (Hex 00) character. Currently WKC displays any non-printable character as "Spaces". In t...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

IA Data Quality rules Table Join keys operators

Operators - Within IA Data Quality rule development, Currently we can only join tables with = operator on Keys under Joins Tab. There is no way we can join tables using >= or <= operators . For example we would like to join tables where Tabl...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration

Data Lineage and Impact Analysis - Availability of version control on schema metadata

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to track changes on metadata, so that I can check how a previous version of metadata looked like, so that I can control from my end if important attributes are not lost while the source is being changed (e.g., ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Assigning a Term on the Column Mapping page

Tested in Development Environment. Assigning a Term on the Column Mapping page. Steps to Reproduce. 1. Logged into ICP4D Maria 2. Navigate to All Projects 3. Open a DQ Project  4. Click on a data asset (table). then data asset...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Preview function Support for Greenplum in 'default catalog'

PMR feedback: only the following connections in the data preview is supported in default catalog: • Db2 (native and JDBC connections) • Oracle (JDBC connections) • Teradata (JDBC connections Customer ’s data source is Greenplum, which is not on th...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration