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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.

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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Knowledge Catalog

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Allow more than 300 characters in data asset descriptions

Hello! When we started editing some data asset descriptions, we received a message that it was not allowed to use more than 300 characters. We understand that allowing longer descriptions would be interesting, especially in a data catalog where we...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Ability to add multiple condition rules in row level filtering

Ability to add multiple condition rules in row level filtering, As an example: add both masking and row level in one rule against the same criteria
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Change the default view of assets to show only data assets

Hello! Today, when we enter the knowledge catalog and access an available catalog, the default view shows us all the catalog assets, such as "Data Contract", "Physical Restriction" and "Data". In the attached image "1" we see an example of this vi...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' secti...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Adding primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns to IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer

IBM Knowledge Catalog Relationship Explorer does not display the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns currently even thought the primary key and foreign key relationship between tables/columns can be identified by Metada...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Capability to set custom property as mandatory

There are certain information which we require as mandatory metadata for the terms, rules categories and classifications. We would like to force users to fill this metadata by setting some custom properties as mandatory information.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

IKC workflow mail notifications fine-tuning

If user is receiving lots of notifications from workflows, it would be good to have a bit more convenient e-mail content. Now when the e-mail notifications are created, the subject line basically says "Notification: Your task is completed" or some...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Don't deleted RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Country...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review