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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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Track changes made to Data Quality Rules

AEP is looking to track changes made to Data Quality rules. Data stewards are not aware of the changes being made to Data Quality rules, and they are stepping over each other's work as there is no way to track changes made to Data Quality rules. A...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

WKC - Data Lineage / Import - Db2 z/OS not supported and not integrated

Issue is WKC Lineage does not support or provide integration with IBM Db2 z/OS Manta support's Db2 z/OS, but WKC does not work Db2 z/OS. No integration with add-on or Manta
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Request to have a refresh icon in the catalogs assets column section.

When we navigate to catalog asset page there we are able to see all the details of the asset like column section, business terms and governance artifacts. Now when we are trying to update a business term in the column section to see the updated re...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Bulk update for category management

It takes at least 7 mouse clicks to change the primary category for an governance asset. It would be more efficient to be able to multi-select assets (e.g., business terms or data classes) and then assign a new (primary) category. Use case example...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Catalog limiting to 10 assets while adding to Projects

Verizon does bulk adding of assets from catalog to Projects. In 4.5.3 release the Catalog adding to projects limited to 10. Entered a SF ticket and the dev team asked us to create a AHA ticket and this is as per Design. Please extend it to 100 or ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Catalog Admins should be able to manage Private Assets

Currenty only Asset Owners or Members can view a Private Asset. Admins should be able to take the same actions on private assets as public assets. Admins of a catalog should be able to see private assets to ensure that the correct asset members ar...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

The search bar on the catalog should show exactly matched contents only

***This is an idea about the search bar on the catalog.*** ***This is not an idea about the black search bar on top of the CP4D WEB console window.*** <Background> User register some Business Terms and Tags using Japanese language in the C...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Support DENODO in WKC with Generic JDBC

Our customer wants WKC to be connected to DENODO with Generic JDBC. Now CP4D can connect to DENODO with Generic JDBC in DV. It is described in this document. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__re...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration