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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,

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  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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Add DBNAME (Database/Domain) Visibility for Db2 for z/OS Assets on IBM Knowledge Catalog

Large Db2 for z/OS environments commonly use DBNAME as the primary logical structure to organize transactional systems, business domains, and data ownership boundaries. Today, IBM Knowledge Catalog imports Db2 for z/OS assets without exposing the ...
12 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

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...
9 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...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

MDE needs to support separate reviewed check mark for individual properties: business term, data class, classification and maybe display name/description

when MDE assignment review work is shared among multiple people and when we try to address it in chunks of columns belonging to a group with similar business meaning it makes sense to be able to mark for example data classes as reviewed and applov...
11 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

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...
3 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.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) Feature in IBM Data Intelligence (watsonx.data)

In IBM Data Intelligence / watsonx.data, CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) is a security and governance feature provided by IBM Cloud IAM that adds an extra layer of access control beyond roles and permissions. Context‑Based Restrictions (CBR) rest...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Removing LDAP Dependency to migrate IGC to IKG

The proposed enhancement aims to remove the constraint within the migration tool, eliminating the requirement for both the source and destination systems to be connected to the same LDAP. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for clients in ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists