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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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Support Secure Gateway access to AWS S3 from Watson Studio (WKC, Refinery)

With Multi Cloud environments with AWS, S3 is "VPC"ed and usually does not allow to public access. To make use of WKC (Metadata) /Refinery (Actual Data) capabilities, Secure Gateway support to ISOCS Cluster which is "VPC"ed from IBM Cloud is requi...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Capability to rollback a governance change

Demonstrate how changes to business terms are tracked, ability to revert to a previous version
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Relate underlying assets to the connection

Capture not only metadata on object level (say, a DB table), but on DB schema level, to preserve understanding of connections between the tables, so that users may identify connected metadata objects based on the underlying DB schema
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to compare profile runs and identify trends over time

Demonstrate the ability to identify data quality assessment's trends over time
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to showcase business lineage for capturing policies, stakeholders, data quality dimensions and corresponding scores, and more

Ability to showcase business lineage for capturing policies, stakeholders, data quality dimensions and corresponding scores, and more - DP: with exact names of servers and server ports via which the data flow occurs
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

OOTB capabilities to support a business-friendly UI for documenting data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc.  

Demonstrate the OOTB features to handle: documentation of data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc. 
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support automated data certification (e.g. gold, silver, bronze)

Automated process for data certification, based on data profiling/quality assessment (Data Certification – based on data profiling/quality result and standards update metadata with proper certification rank)
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release