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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Bulk metadata import and bulk business term and data class update in the WKC UI

Stewards and WKC Admins need the ability to bulk update business and technical metadata information, e.g. descriptions and names, from a UI using a CSV file. Should be able to use a CSV file specifying the category and artifact name (not the guid)...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Improved relationship explorer

WKC should have a relationship explorer that can easily visualize all links between any governance artifact all the way down to the source data User Story As a business user, I need to easily see how different governance artifacts are related to e...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Capability to rollback a governance change

Demonstrate how changes to business terms are tracked, ability to revert to a previous version
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Relate underlying assets to the connection

Capture not only metadata on object level (say, a DB table), but on DB schema level, to preserve understanding of connections between the tables, so that users may identify connected metadata objects based on the underlying DB schema
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Support for handling data quality rules versions

Complete audit trail of changes and proper versioning
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to compare profile runs and identify trends over time

Demonstrate the ability to identify data quality assessment's trends over time
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release