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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Watson Knowledge Catalog

Show Governance Rule description within Explore Relationship graph view

The request is that, in the Explore Relationships view, when hovering over the Governance Rule object (in my example, test GR), the object’s Description should also be displayed, just as it appears in the right-hand panel under the Item metadata t...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Preserve Existing Relationships During Bulk Relationship Loads-No98

When performing bulk relationship imports using relationship templates in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC), the system should provide an option to add new relationships without overwriting or deleting existing ones. This capability would allow metadata...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Role‑Based Read‑Only Metadata Attributes-No97

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Provide the capability to define certain metadata attributes as read‑only by default, such as Criticality Rating and PRP ...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments when re‑importing metadata-No95

We need to enable notifications or have a validation mechanisms, or controls when re‑importing metadata to prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments.
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

CP4D portal‑style customization

Introduce a comprehensive, portal‑style customization framework accessible to platform administrators. The objective is to empower administrators to tailor the appearance, content, and organization of product pages within the CP4D web interface, w...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Feature Request for IBM Knowledge Catalog: Support for Metadata Import from AWS S3 with Deeply Nested Parquet Partition Structures

We have a data source stored on Amazon S3, and we have successfully established a connection to it within the IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) environment. The data is stored in Parquet format, and the cloud team has ensured that all required permissio...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Deleting the data Flows after rule execution

This idea is derived from CPDIDEAS-I-2537 specific for deleting the data flows with rule execution (as per IBM request). IBM handling the rules execution flows deletion up to some extend. But still not a full proof solution. #Flows not deleting fo...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted