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New features and enhancements

The August 2024 release of Data Governance and Catalog includes the following new features.

New relationships panel on custom asset page layouts

When you modify the page layout of an asset, you can now add a new panel that displays an asset's relationship with other assets. In this panel, you can also specify the related asset types that you want to display for the asset.
The following image shows the Relationships panel on the Overview page of a custom asset page layout:
Image depicting the Relationships panel on the Overview page of a custom asset page layout.
For more information about how you can create a custom layout for an asset page, see Custom layout for asset pages.

Export relationships between business assets

When you export results of a search, you can now choose to include the existing relationships between business assets in the exported file.
The following image shows the Export Assets dialog box:
Image depicting the Export Assets dialog box. The Include Relationships option is encircled.
For more information about how you can export relationships between business assets, see Export assets.

Delete relationships between business assets in bulk

You can now use the exported file of a search result to create or delete relationships between the business assets in the results of the search that was exported.
For more information about how you can delete relationships between business assets in bulk, see Re-import assets using search results exported file.

Delete associations between a data set and a data element

When you export the search result of a technical data element, you can remove an existing association of the data element with a business data set. Open the data element export file and add the prefix "DELETE:" to the business data set name or the Reference ID for which you want to delete the association. When you import this file back into Data Governance and Catalog, the association will be removed.

Export and re-import IDMC metadata assets

You can now export IDMC metadata assets to a Microsoft Excel file in Data Governance and Catalog. You can also update the asset description and re-import the file on the New Import page in Data Governance and Catalog.

New catalog sources

This release includes the SAP S/4HANA Cloud catalog source. This catalog source is available for preview.
For more information, see SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Enhanced catalog sources

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
You can use the replace function in the Microsoft Azure Data Factory expression language to extract pipeline assets.
For more information about configuring a custom delimiter for catalog sources, see Microsoft Azure Data Factory.
Snowflake
You can extract metadata from Snowflake database assets shared through Secure Data Sharing.
For more information about configuring a custom delimiter for catalog sources, see Snowflake.

Profiling enhancements

Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse
You can enable profiling and run data quality tasks for Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse.
For more information about configuring a custom delimiter for catalog sources, see Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse.

Configure additional data capabilities

You can configure glossary association and data classification on IBM Cognos catalog sources.
For more information about configuring a custom delimiter for catalog sources, see IBM Cognos.