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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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Category export should provide collaborators with their roles

Users should be able to export all important category information. Now collaborators of the category are not exported. I think collaborators and their roles are vital information of the category. In addition, when exporting categories the template...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Preserve Existing Relationships During Bulk Relationship Loads-No98

When performing bulk relationship imports using relationship templates in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC), the system should provide an option to add new relationships without overwriting or deleting existing ones. This capability would allow metadata...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Role‑Based Read‑Only Metadata Attributes-No97

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Provide the capability to define certain metadata attributes as read‑only by default, such as Criticality Rating and PRP ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments when re‑importing metadata-No95

We need to enable notifications or have a validation mechanisms, or controls when re‑importing metadata to prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Request for Individual Term Approval in Bulk Load Process

Hi, Currently, when we import all terms in a single batch, the workflow processes them as one step—either all are approved or all are rejected. This does not allow us to approve or reject specific terms as necessary. How it should work: When we lo...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. For a few clients where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from COBOL 4.x to 6....
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Implementation of field filter function in Watson Discovery

Our customers are using oneWEX's contnet mining and have migrated their miner collection to WD Premium since June of this year. They used the field filter, which was a function of oneWEX, to divide the text in the field. However, WD does not provi...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration