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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Hi, any option to add to profiling stats quartiles and percentiles, density, selectivity, sequence

I have some customer's request to provide additional statistics as result of profiling with: quartiles , percentiles, density, selectivity, sequence
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Issue with DQ Rules for TIMESTAMP Data Type

We have compared data from Snowflake (SF) and IA. So when we bring in a table from SF into IA it is updating any column that is a data type “Timestamp” and the value for that column ends with a “0” Changing the value for the column to add a “T” wh...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

WKC - Data Lineage / Import - Db2 z/OS not supported and not integrated

Issue is WKC Lineage does not support or provide integration with IBM Db2 z/OS Manta support's Db2 z/OS, but WKC does not work Db2 z/OS. No integration with add-on or Manta
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Request to have a refresh icon in the catalogs assets column section.

When we navigate to catalog asset page there we are able to see all the details of the asset like column section, business terms and governance artifacts. Now when we are trying to update a business term in the column section to see the updated re...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Catalog Admins should be able to manage Private Assets

Currenty only Asset Owners or Members can view a Private Asset. Admins should be able to take the same actions on private assets as public assets. Admins of a catalog should be able to see private assets to ensure that the correct asset members ar...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists