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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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.

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


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Watson Knowledge Catalog

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Published terms under category can be filtered, but the drafts can not - please add similar filtering functionality to drafts also

We have cases where there are going to be a lot of drafts, so filtering on the drafts is just as useful to us as of the published ones. In the screenshot you can see that filters exist for published governance artifacts. But if one chooses the "Dr...
about 5 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Adding "All users" collaborators when creating categories via csv

When in IKC we create a new root category using the ui or the apithe new category created has as collaborators in access control both the user who created the category with category role owner and the "All users" group that has viewer as category ...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Test and validate CP4D, IKC, and Manta functionality on OCP-Virtualitzation

Verizon is evaluating alternatives to their virtualization technology (VMWare) and OCP-V is the main option they are considering. They would like to make sure that Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Knowledge Catalog will work reliably and with the same o...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom property restriction by Categories that applies to Categories

There are multiple cases where we have a need to restrict Category Custom properties to be shown/not shown
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom property restrictions by Classifications

There are some cases where Classification will require some custom properties to be shown or not for the artifacts
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Profile and QA a dataset using RDS composite keys

Most of our RDS have composite keys to create unique codes for different countries and systems. Having an option to use a subset/ filter/where clause using the composite keys of an RDS to profile or quality assure data would be useful. Sample cust...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Protection Rules: support combination of rules to filter data

Defining more complex and sequential rules is essential to comply with business access rules in larger businesses w/o having to define hundreds of rules. Given is a table with regions "A" and "B" and a user community getting access to either A or ...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Filtering & export for activity log

After a while the current activity log will become quite long, and it will have a mixture of different types of content - edits, workflow actions, pure comments etc. It will be difficult to e.g. focus only on comments, because they're mixed with e...
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration