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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Notify when Overview/Profile is inconsistent/differs from Asset requiring re-profiling

The system should automatically detect when there are discrepancies between the data displayed in the Overview/Profile section and the actual Asset data (e.g., due to data updates/refresh delays or schema changes). In such cases, users should be n...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Monitor resource consupmtion per project on IKC

It is requested that the monitoring dahsboards of Cloud Pak for Data can display the resource consumption of the activities performed by IKC, including data quality rules, metadata enrichments, metadata import, etc. It should be consistent with th...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Ability to Make Custom Attributes Mandatory

We would like the option to mark certain Custom Attributes as mandatory when creating or editing assets. This would help enforce data governance policies and ensure consistency in metadata population.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Add a feature to assign data classes based on the assigned business term, with the option to choose the behavior of data class assignment.

This enhancement would involve reconfiguring the data class assignment service to operate based on the business term assigned to each asset. Users should have the flexibility to select how data classes are assigned: either following the default be...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

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

Enhanced Data Export File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data export functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data destinations. Proposed Solution: Expand Reference data export capabilities to support a wider ra...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Data Import File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data import functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data sources. Proposed Solution: Expand RDM's data import capabilities to support a wider range of co...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery Integration with Watson Knowledge Catalog to Govern Insights / Access to Collections

Enable watson discovery service over watson knowledge catalog assets and watson studio projects in a way that allows for governed access across collections and indexes. Similar to the way one can restrict what people can access in WEX, integrating...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Publish Assets from WKC to Watson Studio consistently

Follwing the idea, that data assets have been added and documented in WKC and then pushed to projects that need this data assets, there is a great gap in functionality: when pushing an asset a second (or third...) time to a project, e.g. after the...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Enable Metadata Enrichment Data Quality output table support across similar connection types

Currently, certain connectors, such as 'PostgreSQL', support the Data Quality output table, while others with similar functionality—such as 'Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL'—do not. Although these connectors handle comparable data fields and structures,...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information