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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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Agentic AI - Creation of NEW glossary artifacts through mcp agent

Agentic AI - Creation of NEW glossary artifacts (business terms, classifications, data classes, reference data, policies, and rules)
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

User_id who executed DQ Rule to be made available in IKC BI Data Service Model table dq_rule_execution

We need to know which user executed the data rule. We use different users for live execution and for testing/investigations. We need to be able to filter out test runs from regulatory reporting.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Versioning on relationship explorer (Graph)

RBC is looking for a graph DB capabilities to manage the complex relationship within their Risk and Control team. The relationship is going to modify due to business requirement very often. With that, customer requested versioning in the relations...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Display custom properties in the relationship graph with different colour scheme and filter options for better navigation experience.

Relationship Graph doesnt include any custom properties today, when we add the properties or custom properties (i.e. Business Terms) to the business artifacts, can we show them in the relationship explorer UI. Expected the complex relationship gra...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

IKC administrator role need to get super privileges' to control all the components

Need a super admin privileges' for the CP4D platform admin users to control all the components of the IKC - Glossary, Catalog, Projects, Connections Due to missing proper access, now facing the challenge when business report some issue with their ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

“Create Extension Mapping” panel

Description AB users feel IKC requires more screens to accomplish the same tasks than in IGC reducing usability. IGC offers a more centralized workflow (single screen) vs IKC requiring more fragmented steps across multiple screens. Current usage i...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

New cards on homepage - Categories where I have 'xyz' category role and My artifacts where I am added as a steward

1. There should be a card which shows categories where user has some category role added. Users should be able to select multiple category roles or create multiple category cards with different roles. 2. There should be a card which shows all the ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration