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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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support merging metadata and document data into a single block of data

The data platform needs to provide support the ability to merge both document metadata and document content into a single block of data to send into Discovery
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

automatically send delete notifications for content that has been deleted from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support to automatically send delete notifications for content that has been deleted from a data source since the last time that data was sent and ingested into Discovery.
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

automatically send newly created content from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support to automatically send newly created content from a data source since the last time data was sent and ingested into Discovery. Currently the data platform has no mechanism for identifying new content since...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Provide a less database centric view of data sources

The data platform needs to provide a less Database centric view of each supported data source. Currently any user wanting to move data from a source such as Salesforce is required to have a deep understanding of the database structure and associat...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Expose key capabilities via API to enable embedding in external product UI

The Watson data platform needs to expose all capabilities required to define a connection between a data source and Discovery, select the desired data elements to extract, transform the data, send to Discovery for ingestion, and maintain ongoing d...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

users of WDP, not just Data Catalog Admins, should be able view policies that are in place and they are responsible for following

Currently on the Admin of the policy manager can see the actual policies that are created. It's critical that other users should at least be able to view policies that they themselves are suppose to be compliant with, and they will be subject to w...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Should make it easy to create references not only to connections, or individual assets (file, table, doc, etc). So including the notion of directory, containers, schemas, etc.

While the individual file or table is useful, more often than not there use cases where their are a set of tables, docs, objects that are related and dependent. It would be very useful to keep that organizational structure and be able to catalog, ...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Disabling the Reviewed column filter not reflect left panel Reviewed Count unless Browser Refresh

Tested in 3.5.6 Release of ICP4D MARIA DEV, TEST and STAGING environment. Noticed this while testing the new enhancement 885 ticket in Staging. This test performed in Dev. Test also. Steps to Reproduce: Log in to MARIA Navigate to Data Disco...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration