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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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Need workflow capabilities for MDE reviewing

Need workflow capabilities for MDE reviewing: column level reviews assigned, when all columns for a given asset are reviewed then a workflow notification for asset review, when all assets for a given MDE are reviewed then a workflow notification f...
about 17 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need audit logging event for MDE reviews

Customer must audit and because admins have elevated priviledges could bypass the process, the customer must monitor that the reviewer is now the submitter.
about 17 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support for Data Quality Rules and Meta Data Enrichment with Azure Fabric Warehouse Connector

The connector available on CP4D SaaS only supports Datastage and MDI. In oder to fulfill advanced data governance scenarios, a customer must place an intermediate Databricks repository and duplicate data, making their architecture more complex and...
about 21 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...

Support couchbase as a source for data catalog and lineage

Adding couchbase as an additional connector allows more clients to find it easy to make a switch to using watsonx.data intelligence for their data governance and lineage needs.
15 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

setting to restrict pasting text to free text fields or forcing them to "paste as plain text"

We would like to have a setting where admin can restrict users to paste text or force users to use "paste as plain text" to free text fields like business terms or rules names etc. We have a lot of cases where users pasted text includes some speci...
15 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for Additional Notification for Business Term Approvals - before reaching due date

Hi, Currently, we have the Governance Artifact Workflow with multiple approvals enabled for our business terms. We also have email notifications activated for all users during the workflow approval and publishing steps. While we receive notificati...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhance rule based business term assignment to allow column name and the column's parent asset name to be specified in a single rule.

Please review the following slack posts for further details. https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1765407815499829 As Oliver Suhre outlined in the above slack post thread: "To add this functionality, we could introduce a new propert...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

More Granular Editor Permission in Data Assets

A business-specialist IKC user today cannot securely contribute to the catalog because, by granting them editor permissions, in addition to assigning glossary terms to columns and editing additional information, they can also alter the data classe...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review