Administering IBM Data Cataloging

This section provides information on how to administering the IBM Data Cataloging capabilities.

AI-enabled capabilities
IBM Fusion Data Cataloging is expanding its AI-driven data management capabilities with two significant innovations. The new IBM Data Cataloging Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables multiple large language models (LLMs) to connect to and operate across a unified set of cataloging tools.
Managing user access
The Data cataloging environment provides access to users and groups. The role that is assigned to a user or group determines the functions that are available. Users and groups can also be associated with collections that use policies that determine the metadata that is available to view.
Managing metadata policies
Policies might be used to automatically tag a set of documents on a periodic basis. In addition, policies might be used to send sets of documents to be deep-inspected by a registered application.
Using content search policies
You can define regular expressions to search for and create policies that use the regular expressions.
Tiering data by using ScaleILM application
Use the IBM Data Cataloging ScaleILM application to move data to different tiers (pools) that are configured on the IBM Storage Scale connection.
Copying data by using ScaleAFM application
The ScaleAFM application supports copy function between IBM Storage Scale connection and IBM Cloud® Object Storage connection.
Exporting metadata to IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
IBM Data Cataloging Watson Knowledge Catalog (WKC) connector supports export of the metadata to either an IBM Cloud instance or to an On-Premise Instance of the Watson Knowledge Catalog .
Importing externally curated tags for COS/S3 using import tags application
The import tags application is used to import a set of externally curated tags for Cloud Object Storage and S3 services.
Performing retention analytics on IBM Storage Protect archive data
Use IBM Data Cataloging to perform retention analytics on archive data managed by IBM Storage Protect.
Managing tags
A tag is a custom metadata field used to enhance system metadata with organization-specific information. For instance, an organization may categorize its storage by project, cost center, or region but the attributes not provided by the storage system itself. Tags enable data classification, search, and reporting based on these organizational dimensions. Use tags to store this additional information and to manage or locate data using metadata that reflects your organizational context.
Discover data
By discovering your data, you can apply policies that assign tags to your data. You can apply tags to the results of a single search, or you can use policies to automatically apply tags on a periodic basis.
Managing applications
An application is a program that interfaces with IBM Data Cataloging and can access the source storage. There are many use cases for application, including data content inspection for enriching metadata, data movement or migration, data scrubbing or sanitation, and more. Data is identified by IBM Data Cataloging by policy filter and passed to the application as pointers through a messaging queue. Then, the application performs whatever work is appropriate on the source data and returns a completion status back to IBM Data Cataloging, which might or might not include enriched metadata for the records. If it does include enriched metadata, IBM Data Cataloging catalogs that metadata and makes it immediately searchable.
Reports
Reports can be generated upon applying tags to a set of data.
Creating a IBM Data Cataloging application for metadata-based policies
Provides information about how to create IBM Data Cataloging application for metadata-based policies.
Graceful shutdown
Provides detailed instructions to put IBM Data Cataloging in idle state on an OpenShift® environment.
REST API for IBM Data Cataloging
Data protection
Using a third-party data movement application to manage data
Introduction to data movement with IBM Data Cataloging.

Parent topic: Data Cataloging