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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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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

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...
about 6 hours 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...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

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...
21 days 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...
about 1 month 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Handling commas in RDS codes

When uploading codes with commas in the code, the RDS will export with \\ to manage the comma. The \\ need to be replaced with a double quote to align with csv formatting best practices.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Prevent bulk csv load from creating drafts in case a draft already exists

At the moment "according to design" a user can bulk load CSV which automatically creates drafts, even though a draft would already exist. Such behaviour (having duplicate drafts) is not possible when editing in the UI, but for mysterious reasons t...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

enhance filter for DB object to import into IKC

After executing metadata import from DB2 I need to review list or imported obects and remove some of them which wouldn't likely be the subject of further metadata enrichment work. Using the interface I cannot find a way to isolate one type from an...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

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...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review