IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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Knowledge Catalog

Hover over governance artifacts

Currently, the descriptions of governance artifacts are only available in the documentation and in configurations and settings -> manage assets and artifact definitions. For example, explanations such as what a category is, its purpose, its lif...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

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 ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Add SUGGESTED & REJECTED states for associated data_class and classification for Reporting

Some data is missing when synced from project and catalogs into reporting database for IKC. After working with support, it turned out that: - For data_class and classification, only ASSIGNED state is synced, and SUGGESTED and REJECTED are not sync...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

IKC DQ Projects - Rule bundling scheduling multiple jobs when binded to multiple source tables

IKC rule bundling critical functionality for scheduling IKC DQ rules Yes, rule Bundling pre-requisite is multiple rules in 1 bundle should use same source tables But we now noticed that bundling is not working with rules which are binded to more t...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Quality rule lifecycle (Draft to Operational stage)

Bradesco requests that quality rules initially remain in a "draft" state and only become operational after being explicitly "published," similar to the lifecycle of business terms. This would allow for review and approval before rules impact produ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

setting to restrict pasting text to unique free text fields (like Name) or forcing them to "paste as plain text"

We would like to have a setting where admin can restrict users to paste text or force users to use "paste as plain text" to unique free text fields like business terms or rules names etc. We have a lot of cases where users pasted text includes som...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Possibility to bookmark own content

In our operating model users are working strictly with limited amount of catalog items/categories/projects. So instead of every time "finding" ones content by re-browsing all catalogs/categories/projects again it would be great to be able to bookm...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Please reduce the number of clicks needed when editing attributes

Saving clicks saves nerves. Our user feedback is that compared to IGC there are "more clicks needed". This may not sound like much, but using a tool that makes your life unnecessarily complicated is frustrating, and that frustration easily then sp...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Request for Additional Notification for Business Term Approvals - before reaching due date

Hi, Currently, we have the Governance Artifact Workflow with multiple approvals enabled for our business terms. We also have email notifications activated for all users during the workflow approval and publishing steps. While we receive notificati...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

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