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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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Time Zone Option for Job scheduling

Add a time zone selection option for MDI and MDE jobs. this will ensure jobs run at the correct local time based on different time zones, providing better flexibility and accuracy in scheduling.
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Scheduler Job Configuration For Metadata Enrichment (MDE) jobs

Enable scheduling for MDE jobs based on specific time intervals, The scheduler should all execution on a particular Day, Week, Month or Year, With flexibility to align with our required time preferences
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
about 9 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add filter & "bulk edit" options to the list of artifacts under a category

Our users work a lot based on a certain primary category - there can be hundreds of terms and rules under one category ("data asset") they're responsible for. For their way of working it would be natural to be able to filter (and also bulk edit/de...
about 9 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

The batch import of e.g. terms lacks individuality - one can only handle the batch approval/review/publish in bulk. Allow as an option handling of individual assets.

If there is two terms in a batch of 100 that should be edited before approved, then the full batch needs to be rejected until those two are in better shape. This is not a problem if the importer, reviewer, approver and publisher are the same perso...
about 12 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Possibility to bookmark own content

In our operating model users are working strictly with limited amount of catalog items/categories/projects. So instead of every time "finding" ones content by re-browsing all catalogs/categories/projects again it would be great to be able to bookm...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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 ...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Allow to update the name and definition of bult-in data quality dimensions or Hidden the bult-in dimensions in English via API or Translate to the default browser´s language

IKC has bult-in data quality dimensions' name and description only in English and it cannot be updated or hidden via API. But all IBM´s customers that don´t have English as their primary language must create new data quality dimensions in their pr...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to link Governance Rules to Data Quality Rules from Governance Rule side

Currently in IKC the mapping between Governance Rule and Data Quality rule can only be done from Data Quality rule side. This would require edit right to Data Quality Rules for business users in production which I'm not too keen to grant. So it wo...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted