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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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Knowledge Catalog

Clear visibility when the reporting DB sync is not happening as expected

We depend on the reporting DB to be correct. At the moment we are not able to trust it, because there is a slow but steady stream of cases where the sync is not happening as expected. We have had multiple PMR about the specific cases, which have b...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Restriction can not be exported for Custom Relation and Custom Attribute

We have crated custom properties and custom relationship. There we added some restrictions. But when we are trying to export them, in JSON, via UI or API, We are able to see the restrictions we have added but only their corresponding Artifact IDs....
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Allow IKC with Data Virtualization and data protection rules in bulk

From the IKC GUI, the customer is requesting the ability to do IKC with data virtualization and allow to configure data protection rules in bulk. This is to enhance security (less errors) and similar speed up deployment of many data protection rul...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Ability to edit Governance and catalogs predefined values

CP4D -> Governance and catalogs -> Asset and Artefact definitions -> Assets -> Select an asset -> add new property Give it a name -> select type predefined value -> enter values Values cannot be edited, if we do a typo, forget...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Need improved combination logic for multiple DPR filter rules

Need a enhancement per case TS020373951. As suggested by Steven, the LMCO requirement here needs an expansion of the features of Data Protection Rules. The current attempt using AND requires that columns have both A and B, but the whole logic ther...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Batch edit more than 20 rows in the Catalog using the catalog interface.

Batch edit more than 20 rows in the Catalog using the Catalog interface. There could be two options: 1 - Select all assets and edit.2 - Select all assets on the page and edit.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Monitoring the use of the CP4D IKC platform

Just like Informatica EDC, platform usage can also be monitored in IBM IKC. In IBM Software Hub, under the Monitoring option, you can find information such as: Number of LoginsUser SearchesTop Assets ViewedAssociated Business TermsAssets with Line...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

multi-language for governance artifacts & metadata enrichment

Intro Customer uses IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Cloud and wants to promote CPD services throughout business units within the company. BU are located in different countries with different languages. In the business unit (BU), which represents the...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

implement "select all" for Assets list in a IKC

Similarly to an option to select all assets imported by metadata import job into a catalog, add the same functionallity when working with IKC directly using UI. This will allow to do bulk delete for example. Catalog easily has 10s or 100s thousand...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release

Workflow requestor does not see the next step approver/publisher user or group

Due to lack of transparency requestor cannot know how to escalate or monitor the progress of the request. Notifications do not show that information.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Planned for future release