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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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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 22 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple rules add the ability to sort

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple they are listed by order they were assigned. We would like to have the ability to sort the column
about 21 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Inhance Readme in project as guide for new collaborators

The Readme in the project overview allows to guide collaborators new to a project as widely used in Github. However users miss it easily due to its inferior location and small size in the Overview page. Then they can not directly read it in the Ov...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Improve user experience when using catalogs

I would like to suggest an improvement in the customization of the presentation of information when the user accesses the Catalogs menu and selects the desired data catalog. It is important that, when viewing data assets, such as schema and table,...
26 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Published terms under category can be filtered, but the drafts can not - please add similar filtering functionality to drafts also

We have cases where there are going to be a lot of drafts, so filtering on the drafts is just as useful to us as of the published ones. In the screenshot you can see that filters exist for published governance artifacts. But if one chooses the "Dr...
16 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Monitor resource consupmtion per project on IKC

It is requested that the monitoring dahsboards of Cloud Pak for Data can display the resource consumption of the activities performed by IKC, including data quality rules, metadata enrichments, metadata import, etc. It should be consistent with th...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Comprehensive API Usage Reporting for Reference Data

Problem Statement:Currently, there is no dedicated reporting mechanism for API usage related to Reference Data in IKC-RDM, hindering visibility into API performance and usage patterns. Proposed Solution:Implement a comprehensive A
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Azure Databricks Delta Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Azure Databricks Delta Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-prone. Propose...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

XML Support for Reference Data Request/Response from IKC via API

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC only supports JSON format for API requests and responses. This limits flexibility for users who prefer or require XML format. Proposed Solution: Expand IKC's API support to include XML format for both requests and...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Extended Composite Key Support in IKC-RDM

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM limits the creation of composite keys to a maximum of 6 columns. This restriction can be insufficient for certain reference data sets that require more columns to uniquely identify records. Proposed Solution: ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted