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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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User searches by any word (except the first word) in the asset name (Catalog UI), the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the asset name (Catalog UI), the search returns 'No Results Found'
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

User should be able to use not only technical meta but also business terms which are assigned to technical terms or which are described in order to find some fields/columns when they create ETL jobs or dashboards

This is for function enhancement request, not for bug fix request, but one of my customer requests bellow function enhancement strongly. [request detail] Once User run asset discovery so as to assign business meta against technical asset such as t...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Add 'task creator'

Hi, Accessing the tasks inbox, on the assigned task list, the user cannot see who created the task. It would be good to include that information, as it will help customers administer their workflows. Thanks,Pallavi.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Have the Governance Artifacts editor pages (Terms/Categories) be customizable (delete/hide fields not filled/needed)

Although the Glossary and Category pages serve many purposes for the customers governance endevour oftentimes there is "too much". Many fields will never get touched/used by a customer and it would be nice if one could "get rid" of them (hidding? ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Auto assign Data Classification

we will like to explore option to automatically assign data classification to the assets based on predefined condition. This is required as when we run the job to publish catalog, the software does not tell us which is the new tables being publish...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Manual assignment of business glossary against technical meta by key business term searching should be assisted by supporting category search function.

After asset discovery processing, user can check whether some business glossary are assigned against technical metas automatically. In addition, user can add manual assignment of additional business glossary against technical metas. In this situat...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release