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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.

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Knowledge Catalog

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Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

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

RDS Relationship Explorer

I was hoping the relationship explorer would show that a RDS is related to another one, without necessarily drilling down into the individual values in that RDS. A good use case would be the interrelatedness between Alpha 2 Country, Alpha 3 Countr...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Need option to get associated relationships details for catalog assets using V3 search API

With V3 search API we are not able to get the related asset count or related assets details along with their attribute values. Since we are moving to relationships as our new metamodel, we need to fetch the asset types with their associated relati...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Projects - Storage volume connections - enable Data Quality features

Hi, my customer is using intensively Storage volumes (type SMB) as connections in CP4D. But when they create data quality rules, it doesn't works because it's not supported. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=catalogs-stora...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Enable the creation of custom governance artifacts using IBM Knowledge Catalog

This is a required capability to meet the requirements of Data Governance Processes at the customer. They want to use this custom artifact to model a concept similar to a "subject area", which needs specific attributes to be meaningful for their d...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

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

Related Content Tab in Business Terms should present respective data type for each Data Asset Column and an option to print a .csv file

When the related content (Related Content Tab in Business Terms gov artifact) is a Data Asset Column type, its presentation must be accompanied by its respective data type. In addition, there must be the option to print a csv file for that generat...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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