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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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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.

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Knowledge Catalog

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RDS Versioning

Hi, We have a requirement on RDS to track and manage the versions based on the following: - Every change to a value or code creates a new version of that reference dataset. - Effective start and end dates of the change - No deletion of previous ve...
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow more than 300 characters in data asset descriptions

Hello! When we started editing some data asset descriptions, we received a message that it was not allowed to use more than 300 characters. We understand that allowing longer descriptions would be interesting, especially in a data catalog where we...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Capability to set custom property as mandatory

There are certain information which we require as mandatory metadata for the terms, rules categories and classifications. We would like to force users to fill this metadata by setting some custom properties as mandatory information.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' secti...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to add multiple condition rules in row level filtering

Ability to add multiple condition rules in row level filtering, As an example: add both masking and row level in one rule against the same criteria
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Change the default view of assets to show only data assets

Hello! Today, when we enter the knowledge catalog and access an available catalog, the default view shows us all the catalog assets, such as "Data Contract", "Physical Restriction" and "Data". In the attached image "1" we see an example of this vi...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Please provide Alert notification if reporting sync is stopped

I would like to suggest setting up an Alert notification system to address situation where the reporting Sync process is stopped. implementing such a mechanism can help us to detect and resolve issue proactively, ensure minimal disruption to opera...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Adding primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns to IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer

IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer does not display the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns currently even thought the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns can be identified by Metada...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review