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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Logging in both Metadata Import and Enrichment don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred

Customer feels that logs don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred. Also feels if an import or an enrichment job takes long time to complete there is not much info in the logs to see how the jobs are progressing. The lo...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Business Glossary Anywere

the following complementary functionalities are included and are required by the customer: Business Glossary for Eclipse – Cognos Framework Manager/Report – Designer integration – Governance Dashboard/SQL Views – Stewardship Center/Subscription Ma...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC User Interface for workflow status and management

WKC should have a workflow status UI and workflow information in the reporting data mart to create reports around workflows. User Story As an Administrator of WKC I need to be able to view and run reports on metrics of change requests (CRs). Withi...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Need to improve quick scan to support SAP HANA with native connection type.

The quick scan in the CP4D 4.0.6 is supporting SAP HANA only with generic JDBC connection type. But it does not include 'the other objects' like aliases, synonyms and clolum views etc which are supported by SAP HANA native connection type. So the ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Tags multiple assets at once in the Knowledge Catalog

When using the multi select in the browse-asset view in the Catalog a user would like to tag multiple assets at once. Currently the mult-select can be used to move multiple assets to a project, or to remove them, but they cannot be tagged as a sin...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Task Inbox Activities Panel View Pane - Increase Size and make dynamic (scalable)

When a comment is added to a task in the Task Inbox it is saved in the Activities Panel. However, the vertical size of that panel is literally 3 mm (yes, I measured it)! It is functionally totally useless for any purpose, especially effective coll...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos. Al...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Informatica bridge for Linux version

Customer would like to use CP4D to view lineage for Informatica BDM. We provide a bridge solution on windows. But customer doesn’t allow windows in production environment. and learnt only windows version is a formal release in the future. currentl...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Catalog Asset View - Difficulty

When in the asset view of the catalog, you can't see what business terms have been assigned to a column unless you click on the column (is this because the classes are considered the more important concept to display?). You also cannot search for ...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Allow WKC host strings to be changed

The context string for an Information Asset is built from the connection string components. EX: the Hostname dcxidavknx003.epg.zzz.yy.com on port 1234 using a jdbc connector results in the context string jdbc:ibm:hive://dcxidavknx003.epg.zzz.yy.co...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration