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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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All users pre-defined user group should be configurable

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable. For example IKC gives All users user group pre-defined Category role 'Viewer'. We would like to all users to see drafts which means that we would like to define which category role All users...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Custom property restrictions by Classifications

There are some cases where Classification will require some custom properties to be shown or not for the artifacts
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Please reduce the number of clicks needed when editing attributes

Saving clicks saves nerves. Our user feedback is that compared to IGC there are "more clicks needed". This may not sound like much, but using a tool that makes your life unnecessarily complicated is frustrating, and that frustration easily then sp...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

The Numeral subfacet of the Part of Speech facet should be placed under the Noun subfacet.

In Japanese, some word appear in both Numeral subfacet and General Noun subfacet. So, We need to analyze twice, using each of the umeral subfacet and the General Noun subfacet. I know that it is very hard to strictly classify General Nouns and Num...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

MDE needs to support separate reviewed check mark for individual properties: business term, data class, classification and maybe display name/description

when MDE assignment review work is shared among multiple people and when we try to address it in chunks of columns belonging to a group with similar business meaning it makes sense to be able to mark for example data classes as reviewed and applov...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Capability to specify workflow trigger based on the object attribute changes (minor change vs major change)

Two different solutions options: 1. Criticality of the attribute change will be defined based on mandatory vs optional attributes 2. In workflow configuration view, user can select relavant attributes to trigger the workflow
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Export and import of workflow configurations for deployment process

We would like to test our workflow configurations before we move them to prod. Sometimes the configurations can be quite complex, especially if there are plenty of categories selected. Combined with e.g. terms and rules, we might have 60 lines in ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Custom assets should not have out of the box relationships to artifacts (i.e. Business Term and Classification)

We have created custom assets, and now for each there's a section 'Governance' which has fields for terms and classifications both. Neither are used, but they show as 'No term assigned yet' or whatever (our dev is down now, can't check the exact w...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration