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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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WKC - Multi select option in connected Asset Import in the catalog view

If we add connected assets to a catalog we can only select one asset and have to provide a name for that asset. Usually we import hundreds of tables and this seems quite painful. We would prefer a experience where we can select multiple tables, fi...
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Show description in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not see other information about detail of the assets(such as description...
about 4 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Catalog limiting to 10 assets while adding to Projects

Verizon does bulk adding of assets from catalog to Projects. In 4.5.3 release the Catalog adding to projects limited to 10. Entered a SF ticket and the dev team asked us to create a AHA ticket and this is as per Design. Please extend it to 100 or ...
4 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Data Quality APIs

APIs for DQ. Accessing definitions from outside WKC, pushing definitions into WKC, etc.
about 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Control the resources required for Cloud Pak for Data to maintain functionality equivalence across versions per licensing.

For my customer, Navistar, when we upgraded from CP4D v4.0.9 to CP4D v4.5.3, we are not able to run Metadata Enrichment due to resource constraints. In the previous version, we are able to run Quick Scan with the same environment. They have 4 work...
2 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

WKC - -support the concept of group to assign roles

Currently only single user can be authorized in CPD. As with WKC many user may access the platform and have to be administered. Synchronizing groups from LDAP and assigning roles to a group wil be requested.
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Integration between WKC and Cognos

The more customers work on the idea of the "Ladder to AI", the more integration between all steps is needed. When defining Metadata and Governance in WKC, using the assets in Watson Studio, DataStage and other components, Cognos should be taken in...
about 1 year ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 4

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Req ID 92 Unable to see all relation in explore relation window

Steps to reproduce Create a term and add all the relevant attributes and relations Add Classification and Data Classes Add Other related business term Add Policy, Column ,Governance Rule on the term Publish the term Now click on the three dots on ...
12 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Searching catalog should provide option to filter asset properties to search

Currently, catalog search looks for matching keywords in these asset properties: Tags Name Description Terms Column names If catalog search retunes hundreds of items from different assets properties, it's very difficult to find the right items. Se...
9 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release