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Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow users to choose between "loose" and "tight" display of attributes for rules/terms/categories

Feedback from our pilot group of users is that compared to IGC the screen shows a lot less information at a glance, meaning people have to scroll more. They would prefer a more concise look and feel. When they work on laptops only, I can understan...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable. For example IKC gives All users user group pre-defined Category role 'Viewer'. We would like to all users to see drafts which means that we would like to define which category role All users...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

IKC DQ should be able to trigger SPARK jobs to HADOOP

In Information Analyzer IBM has component called BIG QUALITY which, when used, pushed down Data Execution to HADOOP as SPARK job via APACHE LIVY. This functionality is not part of CP4D IKC DQ and remote plane is offered as solution. This would mea...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

The batch import of e.g. terms lacks individuality - one can only handle the batch approval/review/publish in bulk. Allow as an option handling of individual artifacts

Three use cases: a) a couple out of the batch should be rejected If there is two terms in a batch of 100 that should be edited before approved, then the full batch needs to be rejected until those two are in better shape. This is not a problem if ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

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

Filtering Catalogs assets by custom attribute values

In our current IGC setup, we have the functionality to create custom attributes and allows users to filter the catalog by these custom attributes. On the catalog screen, example users can select the database asset type and then filter results usin...
over 1 year 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

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

Add Catalog filter to Display Duplicate Assets

Original title: Display Duplicate Assets in publish job logs. Original Description: When viewing the logs for a metadata publish job in IKC, the number of duplicate assets is displayed, but the assets themselves are not. It would be useful to know...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release