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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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Allow workflow scope to have multiple categories (subcategories of same parent)

Right now when creating a workflow, one can specify only one category - the selection is based on radio buttons. So let's say we have primary category "DSA" and under that we have four 'working' subcategories A,B,C,D. We would like to have an appr...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

More filtering options in categories search

Hi, could you please add more filtering options in categories view search? Currently user can only search top level categories without any properties.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Option to update/replace Project data asset when add it from Catalog to avoid duplicate data asset

When we add a data asset from Catalog to Project brand new are added to project as many times we add it from Catalog. The idea here is to have an option to update/replace the data asset when add it in the Project that the data asset has already be...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Need functionality to Exclude Assets/schemas from MDI Scan by Name/Pattern

Need new feature/option that allows users to exclude specific data assets or tables from a Metadata Import (MDI) scan based on a naming convention or pattern. This would prevent the catalog from being populated with unnecessary assets and improve ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Default Selected categories should be displayed while creating MDE job.

Default Selected categories are not displayed in the categories section when we create MDE.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Monitor resource consupmtion per project on IKC

It is requested that the monitoring dahsboards of Cloud Pak for Data can display the resource consumption of the activities performed by IKC, including data quality rules, metadata enrichments, metadata import, etc. It should be consistent with th...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

Need Restore asset option in UI

Now we have a option in v5.1.0 to remove an asset from the catalog. when removing asset we can purge immediately or purge after 30 days, however there is no option to restore the asset from UI. we need an enhancement in the coming update to addres...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration