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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.

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Knowledge Catalog

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Adding snowflake as a database supported for analysis output tables

As part of the design of the solution for Data Quality using IBM Knowledge Catalog further database support for output tables are good to have. As per the documentation, Supported data sources for curation and data quality - IBM Documentation, add...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

We would like assign a secondary category for a term that is under the same root parent category (IGC 'referencing categories' allows this behaviour)

We have a possiblity to assing a secondary category to a term but it is not possible to use this functionality when the secondary category is under the same parent as the term. We are using this functionality to keep terms under the primary catego...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Bulk edit capability for categories

Content admins have a need to update certain properties/relationships/parent category of a set of categories in bulk; example case is to move a list of categories from one parent category to another in bulk
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Automated Data Mapping for RDM Data Imports

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM requires manual mapping of data elements to their corresponding column names and data types when importing data from files like CSV, XML, or JSON. This can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for dat...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Request to leverage the connection to Denodo to automatically populate custom attributes for Information Governance Mapping in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges:We currently manage around 10-15 custom attributes manually in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC). However, the data for these attributes resides in Denodo, leading to inefficiencies and the potential for errors during man...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

IKC increase the 4000 characters limitation to describe a code to 8000 characters

Reference data. Can the 4000 characters limitation to describe a code be increased to 8000 characters? For example, we have descriptions that are very long, such as NAICS codes.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component

You want to have the ability to hide metadata that is not applicable to the component being edited: term, rule. You only want to see what is applicable to the subject to avoid typing errors. Seeing metadata that is not applicable to a subject gene...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Dremio Official Support Need

There is a connector for dremio in the product. We can connect and run metadata enrichment, but we cannot perform other actions such as data quality. When we researched, we learned that this is not officially supported. With this being officially ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered