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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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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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Knowledge Catalog

Catalog users need to kick off a feedback workflow on a catalog item

There is a lack of a feedback workflow module in IKC and this impacts our ability to fully leverage the platform capabilities. Users of the data catalog can currently provide comments and rating regarding an asset, but this doesn't kick off a proc...
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Provide built-in automated lifecycle management and cleanup for Spark logs, temporary files, and residual runtime artifacts generated by IBM Knowledge Catalog workloads.

IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) relies heavily on Spark-based processing for Metadata Enrichment and other data discovery/governance workloads. In large enterprise environments with frequent and concurrent enrichment executions, Spark can generate a s...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Enable partial and wildcard search on column names in IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, IBM Knowledge Catalog allows searches on column names only when the search term matches the beginning of the column name. For example, considering a column named IE_EMITENTE: Search Term Current Result IE_EMITENTE Found ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

For any workflow task created, there should be a way to see which workflow is responsible for it

We have lots of workflows and approvers/reviewers are not persons but groups. In a happy scenario all is good, but in unhappy scenarios (person X should be able to approve but can not, or should NOT be able to approve but can, notification is sent...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Integration with Databricks Unity Catalog

We are seeing a lot of Databricks Customers who are using the Databricks UC. So, if we can add a step to push the assets from projects in the Databricks UC in addition to our own Catalog, we would be able to satisfy customers requirements.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Add schema filter to governance catalog search

User wants to be able to filter by Schema when searching through the governance catalog, however that is not possible. In Global Search there is a filter for Schema and it finds the schema in the catalog, but searching directly inside the catalog ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Enhance CP4D Workflow Approvals with API-Based Validation and External Approval Integrations

Idea Description It would be useful if IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Data Intelligence Platform workflows could be extended beyond standard manual approval steps to support configurable validation and integration points. For example, during an appr...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Group ownership for imported metadata asset in catalog

When I use the "Import metadata from file" function to add a new asset or update an existing asset in an existing catalog, the Owner field is automatically set to my user account instead of an existing group. In enterprise environments, assets are...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Data Refinery Enhancement

Allow in Data Refinery to be able write to a generic S3 endpoint with iceberg schema but be able to create a table not only for tables that already exists in the bucket
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Needs more information