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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Azure Databricks Delta Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Azure Databricks Delta Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-prone. Propose...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Changing host server for Database

In Infosphere Information Governance Catalog, it is not possible to change the Host Server for a database.Unfortunately, sometimes databases are moved from one server to another, and the only option we have is to make all the changes manually:- Ex...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need MDE execution statistics as like MDI in Reporting feature.

In current ICP4D v.4.6.5 reporting feature, after reporting gets established for catalogs/projects, etc. in the target database there is a table for MDI called metadata_import_executions but we didnt fine any similar table for MDE. So the request ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

User should be able to use not only technical meta but also business terms which are assigned to technical terms or which are described in order to find some fields/columns when they create ETL jobs or dashboards

This is for function enhancement request, not for bug fix request, but one of my customer requests bellow function enhancement strongly. [request detail] Once User run asset discovery so as to assign business meta against technical asset such as t...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

SQL Views

Information Analyzer provided functionality for so-called SQL Virtual Tables that allowed users to select and join data from different tables on a data source and reuse this view for further analysis and reporting. The customer created thousands o...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Change the default view of assets to show only data assets

Hello! Today, when we enter the knowledge catalog and access an available catalog, the default view shows us all the catalog assets, such as "Data Contract", "Physical Restriction" and "Data". In the attached image "1" we see an example of this vi...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Query Capability

IGC we have capability to query from Metadata ( Example Database / Schema, Tables, Business Terms, Mapping Projects etc) and save them. Can we please include this capability from application
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Discovery Error - extracting data - (STRUCT type) is unsupported

Asper IBM SF ticket update we verified table definition and found it has a column of type SDO_GEOMETRY so as this is not supported in current version we are creating this enhancement request to support in next release.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered