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RDS Hierarchies - Child and Parent Duplicates

We have a requirement to load states/provinces/districts (children) for all countries (parent). The same state could exist in multiple countries. e.g., BADEN in Germany and BADEN in Switzerland. Both are valid, but CP4D sees them as duplicates. Th...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Enable reporting feature through API

Do we have any set of API's for the reporting feature to start reporting programmatically from the code level.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Request for API to search with Partial name of the Project/Catalog

Let's say I have 20 to 30 projects which are unique in their naming convention, Let's say I’m using the Naming Convention as follows: Eg: Structure of Project Name: <Application Code>_<Application Name> Exact name using the Structure: ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Need a WKC API to add or modify terms to several columns with different terms in each column using a single API call.

Details: We need the WKC API to add or modify terms to several columns with different terms in each column using a single API call. With this functionality, excessive API calls for a single data asset will be avoided. The terms of entire columns i...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

RDS Versioning

Hi, We have a requirement on RDS to track and manage the versions based on the following: - Every change to a value or code creates a new version of that reference dataset. - Effective start and end dates of the change - No deletion of previous ve...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

IKC increase the 4000 characters limitation to describe a code to 8000 characters

Reference data. Can the 4000 characters limitation to describe a code be increased to 8000 characters? For example, we have descriptions that are very long, such as NAICS codes.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Add terms in IKC to Automatic term assignment

Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for [automatic] term assignment’ –From IBM Documentation. Can we have the option to consider these for ...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Reference data sets - product only supports a 2-tier hierarchy. Make it 3-tier for reference files

Having a 3-tier hierarchy for certain columns will help us to have different values/standards across domains even though the few codes and values are same between domains we want to have it's own group.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

GIT Integration for Reference Data Management (Source Control Tool)

Problem Statement: Currently, managing code related to Reference Data MAPs, SETs, RD-Types, and small static Reference Data in IKC involves manual code copying across environments, leading to version control challenges and potential deployment inc...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

WKC API must return a specific error messages

WKC API must return a specific error so VZ can pinpoint why an extract is failing When the data profiling script is executed, we are receiving errors/ exceptions from the WKC API call intermittently. The response error code that it returns is not ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered