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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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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

Flexibility to Custom Attribute in WKC

资产的自定义属性应支持添加限制条件进行筛选。如术语的自定义属性,最好允许添加到某些术语上,而非全部术语。(Custom attribute for assets is better to support restrictions and filtering. For example, custom attributes for terms should preferably allow adding to some terms rather than all terms.)
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

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...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

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

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

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...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Scheduled MDI/MDE Jobs Timestamp and Modified by details are being changed by Service ID

When a User schedules an MDI/MDE Job using a Schedule, post the Job gets completed, and after a Few Days, the Last Modified & Modified by Details are changed by Service-ID. So this should Not Happen. So the Expected Result is: Even though the ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add sub folders for published rules

Information Analyzer comes out of the box with a series of data quality rules that are organized into folders. However, when a user publishes a user defined rule, we are not able to add or create folders. We need to ability to organize our publish...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration