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


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IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to profile JSON data stored in COS

While trying to profile a JSON file, we noticed that we can use CP4D 3.0 to profile a JSON file from local file system. The same cannot be done if one upload the simple JSON file to COS, then try to profile that simple JSON file stored as parquet ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

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

Optimize performance of WKC and Guardium to minimize the latency

Optimize performance of Guardium E-STAP and minimize the latency overhead (130ms) currently being seen during WKC/GDP MVP for large customer - Optimization considers on all components of solution should be considered (i.e. WKC pooling/caching, get...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

US-Telco - need GDP & WKC Data Protection for multi-node database environments

This RFE is for the "strategic/longterm" option for an optimized solution w. CP4D and GDP. Other RFEs will be opened against CP4D/GDP to track other requirements/ solutions For large US Telco company integration GDP and WKC for remote PDP - this w...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

WKC won't scan NESTED and REPEATED data_types in BigQuery

Nested Columns: WKC won't scan nested columnsBQ "Record" data type = Nested column Projects with nested columns are not ready for Go Live.Impact:• Will nullify nested columns• Some projects will be updated manually vs. others in WKC, so we'll be o...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future 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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists