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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Making testing easier ("impersonation" of another user)

When we test new designs out, it turns out that it is a big pain to set priviledges/user groups correctly. Typically the ones doing testing have broad access rights, but for testing they should have similar access as "real users". This is especial...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

In the Catalog section, for a certain asset there's section "Related Items" - it has headers. I would like to use the headers for sorting. Especially based on "Item type". Now they seem to be in random order.

It is very natural to want to sort lists based on the values, I assume you have simply forgotten to add that functionality? we have case where it would be convenient to sort by relationship type, item type. Possibly by workspace also. You do have ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Prompt user that they will loose their data when clicking outside the window

During my testing of job creation from a data quality rule, I noticed that the modal window automatically closes when you click outside of it, specifically when clicking on the greyed bars on either side without advising you that the modal popup w...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Define and display tags hierarchically

Problem statement/pain point: In now Tags can be defined only non-hierarchy style.In our usecase, administrator design tags system in the enterprise such as in below.This tags system have hierarchical contents. AI_type-Question and answer, AI_ty...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Configuração da Interface do usuário

Nos catalogos de metadados seria interessantes termos uma forma de configurar a interface de acordo com o perfil do usuário. Em um determinado catalogo não queremos que o usuário visualizador acesse as abas Ativo e Perfil e não queremos que a aba ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Looking for dependency checks before deleting any component on ICP4D

The projects, catalogs, DSD's, connections, etc. should not be deleted in a single click, there should be some dependencies before deleting any component. Example: If any DSD is deleted which is associated to particular connection then users can n...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support WKS subtypes

When uploading a trained WKS model as machine learning enrichment, only entities are detected and indexed, but not subtypes (on WD for CP4D). Please also consider supporting subtypes in the planned real-time NLP feature.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Bring "Notes" information in column details

Bring "Notes" information in column details for a column imported from a physical data model.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Allow IKC with Data Virtualization and data protection rules in bulk

From the IKC GUI, the customer is requesting the ability to do IKC with data virtualization and allow to configure data protection rules in bulk. This is to enhance security (less errors) and similar speed up deployment of many data protection rul...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release