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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Need functionality to Exclude Assets/schemas from MDI Scan by Name/Pattern

Need new feature/option that allows users to exclude specific data assets or tables from a Metadata Import (MDI) scan based on a naming convention or pattern. This would prevent the catalog from being populated with unnecessary assets and improve ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Create an overview/summary page for catalogs

Hello! I would like to suggest creating a catalog summary page. Today, when we open a catalog in the Knowledge Catalog, a page with assets opens so that we can filter the assets we want to see. The idea would be to create a new catalog summary pag...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

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

Data Protection Rules - Support of does not contain action

The action block in Data Protection Rules limits the condition to "That contains any", we need to be able to choose "Does not contain any" like in criteria block in order to achieve our needs (see attached image). Currently, classification at colu...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition.

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition. Today we need to bind every column one by one to the same definition variable (in case of 10 tables with 20 columns each, we need 200...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add REST API to show "instances" of data quality rules - now only the rule definitions are available

Currently it appears that the REST endpoints documented at: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=api-using-http-requests Allow for retrieving data quality rule definitions, but not the bindings (I'll call them instances) of those definitions...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Bulk metadata import and bulk business term and data class update in the WKC UI

Stewards and WKC Admins need the ability to bulk update business and technical metadata information, e.g. descriptions and names, from a UI using a CSV file. Should be able to use a CSV file specifying the category and artifact name (not the guid)...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration