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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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...
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

More filtering options in categories search

Hi, could you please add more filtering options in categories view search? Currently user can only search top level categories without any properties.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Auto-Generated Data Quality Rules

We would like these features in IBM Knowledge Quality for Data Quality rules. Rule Creation Ability to auto learn, based on historical data and feedback mechanisms to improve accuracy over time Ability to automatically suggest data quality rules b...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration