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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.

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 Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
over 1 year ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Simultaneously modifying and deleting governance artifacts and asset

On IGC (11.x) -WKC (4.x) migration projects. Clients developed lots of query that they use to search (with many filters) governance artifacts and asset. They also use this feature to bulk modify and delete the searched data. The search phase could...
over 1 year ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to reorganize Custom Properties, Classifications, Business Terms

Currently OOTB: 1- Custom properties are listed in alphabetical order 2- business terms and classifications are ordered by creation date We cannot change the order once it is assigned. Why it is important, For Example - we have assigned a Term whi...
5 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Support CP4D-WKC on Linux on z

We have a few Z customers in Canada who are currently evaluating a data fabric architecture of having a central data catalog. These customers are currently running Linux on Z (IFLs) and would absolutely prefer the platform to run CP4D for producti...
3 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Change order of items in Catalog UI

Requesting a custom sort feature in asset Business Term / Classification and Custom Properties sections so the user can define which order they are displayed in. This will help users see what's important to them higher in the list. Currently c...
6 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
3 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
6 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Leverage Reference Data Sets in DQ Rules

When reference data sets have been uploaded into / created in WKC allow them to be used in the DQ rules logic.
over 1 year ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

WKC data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters

As a Data Steward, I would like to:1. From the data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters such as: source system, environment, database, schema, table(s), column(s), data domain(s), subject area(s), criticality rating and other availa...
5 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
5 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration