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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Knowledge Catalog

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Enhanced statistics, e.g., for entire table dataset

The statisticin WKC refers only to the first 5,000 rows and is therefore useless for evaluating the entire dataset in a table. There should be more selection options, such as statistics on the entire table or special selections (e.g., statistics o...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Customizing the display of custom card attributes for business terms and categories.

In IBM IGC, you can customize the display of custom attributes and their order. You can add custom attributes, but the rules for displaying them do not work. I have seen the Information asset display menu, but I cannot find a setting to display ...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Change the order of the items in the category sidebar

Please find the screenshots in the attachments. The customer hopes that they can change the order easily in the category sidebar such as by dragging. Even when they do the reordering in the csv and then import the file to the category, the reorder...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Support auto-assign Chinese term

Most of Chinese biggest customer is looking for the capability of auto-assign Chinese term. for example:ICBC, PAB, BOC. So their Business Analysis or Data Scientist can understand their data with business term. This is most key step they are looki...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Collaboration record for Governance Artifacts

workflows for governance artifacts (terms, data classes, etc.) have optional or required comment boxes for collaborators on the artifacts to add to. This is required if an approval is rejected in a workflow. Those comments do not appear to the req...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Export all of Business terms or filtered terms

There is no method to export all of Business terms, they have to be exported per category. In addition, could there be more options to export Business terms based upon search results, predefined category combinations, classifications, tags, etc.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support for previewing images in Catalogs

As described in IBM documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=properties-previews#require-data , connected data assets must be structured data in order to be Previewed inside IKC. The only option to preview images i...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration