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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Pushdown execution on Hadoop

Customer current Catalog tool(Informatica) supports Pushdown Execution/Computation on Hadoop clusters and they have dependencies on this, so for competitiveness...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Logging in both Metadata Import and Enrichment don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred

Customer feels that logs don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred. Also feels if an import or an enrichment job takes long time to complete there is not much info in the logs to see how the jobs are progressing. The lo...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Data Request - integrate with WKC assets

Data Request is a great feature when Data Consumer (Scientists or Analytics) request access to data they had not before. The work to be done by the Data Engineer or Data Steward whould be full integrated into WKC / the asset catalog. Instead of de...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Role based comments field for governance assets

Currently any user can add comments to a governance asset via the right hand side information pop-out. This is useful but could lead to a lot of noise if everyone is leaving comments.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to respond to Ratings and Reviews of assets in WKC

Currently, a user can submit a review with a star-rating for assets in the data catalog. Would like the ability to be able to respond to these reviews to provide clarification, correction, etc as is done on many retail web sites for products.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Adding Governance Rules to Business Terms

Currently the way to assign a governance rule to a business term is to go into the Governance Rule view, go to Related artifacts, go to Business Terms and select the appropriate Business Term. In IGC, one could assign the governance rule from the ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term Currently, if I have 2 Policy "Policy 1" and "Policy 2" artifact and publish it Create 2 Business Term "Term 1" and "Term 2" and publish it Go to policy "Policy 1" and add Art...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Support adding a bulk list of values to Data Class.

Support adding a bulk list of values to Data Class. Right now, adding a list of values to Data Classes is cumbersome and difficult through the UI. It's a very small window and you have to do it one by one and does not have copy/paste option, it's ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI. Currently at some page, EDIT button could only perform DELETE, e.g. 1. Go to Business Term artifact option 2. On the Right Hand side you will EDIT button ,click on Edit 3. Edit enables checkbox...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Is a defect