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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Knowledge Catalog

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IKC increase the 4000 characters limitation to describe a code to 8000 characters

Reference data. Can the 4000 characters limitation to describe a code be increased to 8000 characters? For example, we have descriptions that are very long, such as NAICS codes.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Ability to add multiple users as asset owners

A large Federal customer requests the ability to add multiple users as Asset Owners
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Enable SubCategories to be moved from one Category to another without rebuilding the entire hierarchy

Customer data environments are somewhat fluid especially during the initial development/deployment of a knowledge catalog. A subcategory that is originally built under one category often needs to be moved to a different parent category. To do this...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

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...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Show column type in PDM (physical data model) list

Have the column type information when showing the physical data model in the catalog.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Sort governance artifacts by all existent columns

Sort governance artifacts (data classes, business terms, etc.) by all existent columns (not only by "Name" and "Last modified").
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Allow display of more than 50 governance artifacts

When we list the governance artifacts (e.g. data classes), it only shows the first 50 itens of the list and gives us the option to show the next 50 ones. We need it to show different subsets of itens (e.g. show 20 or 50 or 100 or x itens per page).
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered