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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Allow user to specify catalog as the target for automatically discovered data assets

Currently when user checks the option to discover data assets on a connection, the discovered data assets are always added to a (staging) project first, with expectation that the user will then go to the project, and then select the ones he wishes...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Support REST as an asset source in WDP Data Catalog

In attempting to build a business metrics and analytics dashboard we are finding many of our data sources can only be accessed through a REST api. Because of this we are unable to use the catalog to manage the sources from within WDP. Adding suppo...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Write permissions on properties based on roles

As a data steward I would like to only allow specific properties to be edited but specific users. eg. a data quality officer to only be able to link a data quality rule to my asset. A data protection officer to only be able to edit classification ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources - XML

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources - XML
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources - JSON

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources (JSON/XML)
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Delta Tables

As extensive users of ADLS, we need the ability to run data quality checks against assets in Delta Tables format on ADLS.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Ability to run data quality rules against ADLS Gen 2 Parquet format

As extensive users of ADLS, we need the ability to run data quality checks against assets in parquet format on ADLS.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Control the resources required for Cloud Pak for Data to maintain functionality equivalence across versions per licensing.

For my customer, Navistar, when we upgraded from CP4D v4.0.9 to CP4D v4.5.3, we are not able to run Metadata Enrichment due to resource constraints. In the previous version, we are able to run Quick Scan with the same environment. They have 4 work...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered