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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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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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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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Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Data Asset View w/ Business Term Export

Looking for a simple export functionality, into CSV, the MDE asset view which includes the business term and the description along with the column name it is assigned to. The user has the ability to view and select multiple assets and/or columns n...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Source data type in Catalog

The source data type is not visible in the catalog. The type that is displayed in not the actual Data type instead it is the "Inferred data type" and this is fully dependendent on the sampling used in the Metadata enrichment at project.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Ability to link Data Quality Rules to Governance Rules (Similar to in IGC)

Need ability to link Data Quality Rules to Governance Rules (Similar to in IGC), this option not available in UI in 4.6.3 version
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Need capability to aggregate rules in one rule set to be executed and reported on

As a Data Steward, I would like flexibility to schedule:a) Each dq rule as a standalone job and receive notification per job in the case of failureb) All dq rules applicable for one table as one job and receive notification per job in the case of ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Ability to automate data quality rules against critical data elements

Demonstrate the ability to automate data quality rules against critical data elements (From the data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters such as: source system, environment, database, schema, table(s), column(s), data domain(s), sub...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Data Quality - Profiling, Notification capability for data profiling/quality assessment

As a Data Steward, I need following: Upon data profiling/quality assessment execution notification sent to end users as per Notification List
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Workflow Management

Data quality resolution process (e.g. Log Issue, Root Cause Codes/Description, Data Root Cause Codes/Description, Data Resolution Codes/Description, Issue Notification Process including closure notification)
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Applied Data Valuation - Who is accessing sensitive data from the catalog.

Security requirement: track who is using sensitive data, how frequently that data is being pulled from the data catalog, and where the data is going
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered