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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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Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Request to leverage the connection to Denodo to automatically populate custom attributes for Information Governance Mapping in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges:We currently manage around 10-15 custom attributes manually in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC). However, the data for these attributes resides in Denodo, leading to inefficiencies and the potential for errors during man...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Writing back the data quality results to an external database i.e. SQL server

We have a couple of users who have requested for us to connect to their in-country reservoir instances (SQL servers), as they would like to write back their data quality and profiling results in there. This will give them more control of their res...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

CSV format should cover all properties of Business Glossary to import them outside of catalog in CP4D V2.5 or later.

CP4D V2.1 allows Data Steward to import categories and business terms by using not only CSV format but also XML/XMI outside of catalog. XML/XMI format covers all properties of business glossary. - Import and export file formathttps://www.ibm.com/s...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Prioritizing IBM products on the WKC/MANTA integrated experience, including standalone Cognos and standalone DataStage

While we understand that standalone DataStage and standalone Cognos are currently on the roadmap to be supported in the WKC/MANTA integrated experience for the E2E technical data lineage solution, putting/prioritizing them on the next release woul...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2

To improve the resiliency of the synchronization between GS and CAMS

We are facing a sync issue between GS and CAMS very frequently which is hurting downstream user experience negatively and making downstream applications unreliable. Please improve the resiliency of the synchronization between GS and CAMS to make s...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

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.)
almost 4 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...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration