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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Write permissions on properties based on roles

As a data steward I would like to only allow specific properties to be edited but specific users. eg. a data quality officer to only be able to link a data quality rule to my asset. A data protection officer to only be able to edit classification ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Customize assets/artifacts properties

As a <business_user> I would like to have the option to customize the UI of assets/artifacts so I only see the information I am interested in.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Governance Artifacts search in WKC Categories should include Governance Artifakts from Subcategories

Consider the following Example: There is a Category "Driving Vehicles" with 2 subcategories (at the same level): "Automobile" and "Bicycle". Furthermore there is a Business Term "VW Beetle", categorized as "Automobile". Currently, within the secti...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources - XML

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources - XML
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources - JSON

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Semi-structured sources (JSON/XML)
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to run data quality against ADLS Gen2 Delta Tables

As extensive users of ADLS, we need the ability to run data quality checks against assets in Delta Tables format on ADLS.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3

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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release