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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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Making testing easier ("impersonation" of another user)

When we test new designs out, it turns out that it is a big pain to set priviledges/user groups correctly. Typically the ones doing testing have broad access rights, but for testing they should have similar access as "real users". This is especial...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

In the Catalog section, for a certain asset there's section "Related Items" - it has headers. I would like to use the headers for sorting. Especially based on "Item type". Now they seem to be in random order.

It is very natural to want to sort lists based on the values, I assume you have simply forgotten to add that functionality? we have case where it would be convenient to sort by relationship type, item type. Possibly by workspace also. You do have ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Request access to data from within Data Asset

Users need to be able to request access to the data from within the data asset page. All metadata is currently visible but there is no way for a user to request access to the data.
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Looking for dependency checks before deleting any component on ICP4D

The projects, catalogs, DSD's, connections, etc. should not be deleted in a single click, there should be some dependencies before deleting any component. Example: If any DSD is deleted which is associated to particular connection then users can n...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Unable to add individual users to Data Source Definition(DSD) even the users are part of the group in Platform asset catalog

The individual user cannot be added to DSD's in associated catalogs even though the user is a member of group in platform asset catalog. First, the user has to be added to the catalog as a individual user even the user is a member of the group in ...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

MSSQL platform connection fails when user attempts to save the connection

Users are facing issues with MSSQL platform connection when attempting to save the connection for created projects. Users are able to test the connection successfully but are not able to save the connection which is stopping the users from perform...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

New cards on homepage - Categories where I have 'xyz' category role and My artifacts where I am added as a steward

1. There should be a card which shows categories where user has some category role added. Users should be able to select multiple category roles or create multiple category cards with different roles. 2. There should be a card which shows all the ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Allow relations to be defined between drafts

In certain cases we would like to leave terms/rules in draft state until they are 'ready' - meaning there is no published version. These objects should have relationships between them. Thus we'd need a way to create relationships between two draft...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

DataStage Flows View in IKC project need to control based on User Role and Project purpose

Please note this is an extension of previous idea - CPDIDEAS-I-2331 ( IBM Ideas) Need IKC Project User View (or access) restrictions based on DataQuality, DataStage and Metadata harvesting purpose. Proposing 3 kinds of Project Views - IKC project ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review