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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Role based data view permission in any catalog

By default, imported assets in the catalog have the option to see all data and the data profile. For a business user that needs to query just the available data assets this will give to much options to see data. This could be avoided by data acces...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

WKC - Metadata Import of Cognos Assets should also include calculations and expressions performed in Cognos

Currently just the data flow through the imported Cognos artifacts is visible in Information Asset View and Data Lineage. As there is also business logic and KPI calculation in Cognos this information is also important for the Business User analyz...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Add "label" for columns of Data Assets imported from connected database

Abstract: For WKC catalog, Data Asset imported from Database table, has columns with name that defined in database. It is better to have additional column attribute such as "label" that represents the column in on WKC Data Asset view. (see attache...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 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

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

Req ID 92 Unable to see all relation in explore relation window

Steps to reproduce Create a term and add all the relevant attributes and relations Add Classification and Data Classes Add Other related business term Add Policy, Column ,Governance Rule on the term Publish the term Now click on the three dots on ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Improved relationship explorer

WKC should have a relationship explorer that can easily visualize all links between any governance artifact all the way down to the source data User Story As a business user, I need to easily see how different governance artifacts are related to e...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Data Asset View w/ Business Term Export

Looking for a simple export functionality, into CSV, the MDE asset view which includes the business term and the description along with the column name it is assigned to. The user has the ability to view and select multiple assets and/or columns n...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Direct support for partitioning and subsetting of assets

Often it is valuable to be able to run data rules on subsets of data. There are two specific use cases for us. One is that almost everything is separated by "division" making it very useful to run data rules separately, but this currently requires...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered