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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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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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Watson Knowledge Catalog

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Enable the ability to create custom asset objects directly through the user interface.

Currently, users can only create custom asset objects using the REST API, which may be challenging for those who are not familiar with API interactions. By adding support for creating custom asset types directly through the user interface, users w...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition.

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition. Today we need to bind every column one by one to the same definition variable (in case of 10 tables with 20 columns each, we need 200...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Category export should provide collaborators with their roles

Users should be able to export all important category information. Now collaborators of the category are not exported. I think collaborators and their roles are vital information of the category. In addition, when exporting categories the template...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Able to copy data protection rule.

We would like to have the ability to copy data protection rule(s) within the UI.
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

UI fix in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window.
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Better pagination in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window. When searching for an asset within a catalog, change from 'show more' to a multi select e.g. 20, 50, 100 rows (similar to business glossary.) **
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all in UI

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all. Would like this function in UI, not just API.
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Multiple users should be able to be added as asset owners

Multiple users should be able to be added as asset owners to make managing assets easier for a number of users in multiple departments.
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review