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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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Get the same catalog filter in global search

On the catalog screen, you can use the filter by typing words. This is perfect. However, this doesn't work with global search. Global search only allows you to open a list of values, and you have to scroll until you find the information.This makes...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Comments added with a REST API call

We would like to automate as many functionalities we can, but so far we've not found a way to add a comment. In the Activity log (e.g. for a business term) in the UI there's an opportunity for user to write a comment - but how to do it with REST API?
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Add capabilities for bulk enrichment of assets

Currently, users have to manually edit enrichment (if for example the worng business term or data class is assigned). It would be a time saver to allow the export of enrichments and then make the changes on an exported csv file and then re-import....
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Expose APIs and/or ability to create rules populate custom properties at the asset level

The feature is to allow implementaors to automate the population of custom properties at the asset level using APIs and/or custome rules. For example,let us say custom properties were created for asset type, such as origin or security-level, then ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Links to direct items within IKC do not work unless the user is logged into CP4D first

If we link to a specific asset, catalog, governance artifact, or any page within IKC and share that link. A user clicking on the link will ultimately receive an error unless they are first logged into the environment before clicking on the link. I...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Add the ability for more granular IKC user roles

Today, IKC has administrator, owner or editor roles. At large customers, various users need to perform various tasks and they are very cautious of data security. The customer would like to restrict the quantity of administrators. But some tasks li...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 11 Functionality already exists

Table DQ_RULES in IKC Data Mart should have more metadata available

Table DQ_RULES in IKC Data Mart should have more metadata available. Columns CREATED_ON, CREATED_BY, MODIFIED_ON and MODIFIED_BY are missing
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

User_id who executed DQ Rule to be made available in IKC BI Data Service Model table dq_rule_execution

We need to know which user executed the data rule. We use different users for live execution and for testing/investigations. We need to be able to filter out test runs from regulatory reporting.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Allow workflow scope to have multiple categories (subcategories of same parent)

Right now when creating a workflow, one can specify only one category - the selection is based on radio buttons. So let's say we have primary category "DSA" and under that we have four 'working' subcategories A,B,C,D. We would like to have an appr...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Run Metadata import for SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service) Data Source

Add the ability to run MDI on the given data source. IKC supports some import metadata types, but not this one specifically.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists