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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Notify when Overview/Profile is inconsistent/differs from Asset requiring re-profiling

The system should automatically detect when there are discrepancies between the data displayed in the Overview/Profile section and the actual Asset data (e.g., due to data updates/refresh delays or schema changes). In such cases, users should be n...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

User activity audit reports

The platform should provide comprehensive user activity logs, including login history, data access, asset modifications, catalog interactions, and administrative actions. These logs should be stored in a structured format accessible through the un...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Request to Add Catalog’s Properties

Currently, when creating a catalog, only ‘Name’ and ‘Description’ are available as properties to fill in. However, this information is insufficient in our case. We require additional properties such as ‘Applicable Legislation’, ‘Database Supplying...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable Primary Key & Foreign Key Support for all connections Especially for GBQ connection

We request an Enhancement to support Primary key and foreign key relationships in GBQ connection types. Currently this functionality is unavailable in v5.1.1, impacting our ability to maintain data integrity and enforce relationships in our Data l...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Adding snowflake as a database supported for analysis output tables

As part of the design of the solution for Data Quality using IBM Knowledge Catalog further database support for output tables are good to have. As per the documentation, Supported data sources for curation and data quality - IBM Documentation, add...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Restore Data Masking using salts in IBM Knowledge Catalog

The deprecation of the functionality to support data masking using user-specified salts in IBM Knowledge Catalog on Cloud Pak for Data v5.1.0 has raised significant concerns among our healthcare customer base and new customers. This proposal outli...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

IKC DQ should be able to trigger SPARK jobs to HADOOP

In Information Analyzer IBM has component called BIG QUALITY which, when used, pushed down Data Execution to HADOOP as SPARK job via APACHE LIVY. This functionality is not part of CP4D IKC DQ and remote plane is offered as solution. This would mea...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support to use User Session and LDAP Fields as parameter in the Where field of Data Protection Rule Filter Rows option.

We have a big client testing Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, Watson Query to be their data platform. One important use case is use the protection rule feature > filter rows option in a Where Condition field allows to pass user session or LDAP fields a...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add capabilities for bulk enrichment of assets

Currently, users have to manually edit enrichment (if for example the worng business term or data class is assigned). It would be a time saver to allow the export of enrichments and then make the changes on an exported csv file and then re-import....
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists