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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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Knowledge Catalog

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...
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

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 ...
4 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

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...
30 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

IBM CP4D Users statistics reporting

Currently in CP4D user admin session has very limited user CP4D usage statistics - previous session and just a green color showing user active.
about 2 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

Reduce steps in creation of Governance Artifacts

When I create an artifact, I have to do at least 2 clicks to create the same type of assets again. Instead of just having the create option, can we have a create and new option so that we can continue with same artifacts with lesser clicks.
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Import Business Metadata

My customer has business metadata (Business terms, free-text comments) created in project documentation that they wish to import into IKC to match up with the technical metadata scanned from data repositories. This idea is for an import mechanism ...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

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...
3 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...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Allow deletion of Tags

Currently, the created tags cannot be deleted from the UI. We request a button to delete the tags for increased usability.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration