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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Allow display of more than 50 governance artifacts

When we list the governance artifacts (e.g. data classes), it only shows the first 50 itens of the list and gives us the option to show the next 50 ones. We need it to show different subsets of itens (e.g. show 20 or 50 or 100 or x itens per page).
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Sort tags in tag section (Panel for individual asset)

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have tag section in left side. Tag section show all tags added to this asset, but its seems these tags are not sorted by name, and we do not understand what kind of order is adop...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Business Terms - Catalog Assets

As part of the data governance / data stewardship workflow in the default and non-default catalogs, I want to see the business terms on the overview and asset preview tabs without having to click into the column name. The business term should disp...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Adding primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns to IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer

IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer does not display the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns currently even thought the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns can be identified by Metada...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

I want the ability to open an asset in a new tab on the catalog Assets tab.

When you are on the Assets tab in a catalog, there is no way to open an asset in a new tab. You are only able to go directly into the asset and then have to follow the breadcrumb link at the top of the page to get back to the catalog. When people ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Custom attribute value doing a live lookup on the table, instead of predefined value

This functionality is for the Custom Attribute to be able to connect to a database and then read the data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed (searchable) so that the user can search by typing visually. The other requi...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Translate the default names of each item in "Data quality checks"

This is trivial, but is it possible to set the default names of each item in "Data quality checks" to Japanese when the browser's display language is Japanese?One of our customers who experienced IKC hands-on commented that since names on the docu...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Source data type in Catalog

The source data type is not visible in the catalog. The type that is displayed in not the actual Data type instead it is the "Inferred data type" and this is fully dependendent on the sampling used in the Metadata enrichment at project.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered