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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Expand IBM Manta / IKC metadata harvesting support to cover PBIP (Power BI Project) format and additional Tableau file formats (.hyper, .tde, .twbr)

IBM Manta and IKC currently support metadata harvesting and lineage stitching for Power BI .pbix files and Tableau formats .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx. Two gaps were identified during a client engagement with Bradesco (Brazil): 1. Power BI — PBIP for...
4 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Show table relationship on relationship Explorer graph

On relationship graph there are many possible ways to look for relationships. But a data asset to data asset relationship that comes from foreign keys is not natively shown. To create that bond by now it is necessary to manually create each relati...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

Customized views for different Personas

Provide alternate look and feel and re-prioritized search results based upon different personas or groups of users. Roles, Groups, and/or association to data domains could give easier viewing of data for technical users from business as well as fr...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog

DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

IBM Lin_Tape driver support für Rocky Linux 8

As mentioned above, it would be great if you would consider supporting Lin_Tape driver on Rocky Linux 8.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history without needing to open the data rule and not even having read access to project. Already at the moment one can view on governance rule side definition and binding of the Data quality r...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Allow Modification of Grid View Columns

We can define custom properties for categories, business terms, etc. but we cannot put them in the grid views. We request an administrative panel to modify the columns shown in the grid views across the platform, which would support the addition o...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

A new role that allows users to create definitions but not execute them (not allow quality and monitor quality rule assets)

This new feature will allow for more granular user control, allowing administrators to create different user groups based on this role.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review