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Display attributes under general information section for OpenIGC assets in Lineage view

We have created custom attributes in IGC to capture logic for lineage. But this attribute is not displayed when we view lineage for OpenIGC assets.An example would be the column level logic custom attribute that is applicable to column assets acro...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Ability to run lineage at Term Level

We have a business requirement to view the Lineage Graph of a Term in IGC Glossary.However, we know that currently its not possible to run lineage on terms or categoriesWhat would be the best way to therefore show lineage for a term in IGC
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

Information Analyzer Virtual table data security

We have observed VT data security issues in Information Analyzer. IA is allowing users to view and create virtual table on all data sources which are not added in current project. For example, we have two projects "USDO" and "SDMO_AML". My user id...
over 3 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

IGC Standardize presentation of asset context and use of asset type icons

Asset icons are not displayed with the context string in 'contained assets' list. See attached. Database Table details: ORGANIZATION, shows Database Column, ADDRESS, with full context but does not include icons as seen in context string everywhere...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Read-Only user Role for Infosphere Datastage

We have a requirement to have a read-only user created to login to on IBM Infosphere datastage director client and only be able to view the logs and see the status of the ETL run.Among the current roles the datastage and quality stage operator is ...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Improve Asset Customization Profiles so they can be applied to Groups

We'd like the ability to use the IGC New - Management - Asset customization Profiles to create a default profile view that can be applied to all users that exist in an LDAP group. Currently a view profile can only be applied to individual users, a...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Usage Information Section is missing for asset XML Schema Definitions from assets dossier view in IGC

Hi, There is request from business to create the associations for assets under ‘XML Schema Definition' Hierarchy in IGC but looks like IGC is not supporting any association for this asset type.Problem Statement: Usage Information Section is missin...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

for filtering assets in IGC

When filter is applied to browse the asset and we will get the filtered results of the asset. Then if we click on one of the assets from the filtered results in the same browser tab to view the asset and Then if we click back button on that sa...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Add an Option to not use sql alias in column_name

We have many jobs and projects reading an Oracle database table and use alias to map the column name in table into a new name (for new name in target table, or join with another data sets). When viewing in IGC the data lineage, there is a break (s...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 3 Not under consideration

Consider MS SQL SQL syntax while parsing

Some T-SQL statements used in Views cause sql parsing failure in IGC For Example: - NOEXPAND statement - Try_Cast function - CASE in a WHERE expression
about 3 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration