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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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Knowledge Catalog

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WKC can catalog bookmarks as references to external web sites, rss feeds, opendata sources, live streams of data

Not all data relevant for analytics is in a repository asset under an organisation control. There is a lot of interesting data sources that are public and external to the user organisation. Cataloguing such knowledge is also helpful. It includes: ...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Integration between GCP Catalog and WKC.

There is no integration currently between WKC and Google catalog. WKC can’t show Tags from Google catalog in WKC. WKC can’t show Query from a View when it is imported to Catalog.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add Workflow Assignees by Roles and/or Groups

When create/update Governance workflows, add Assignees by Roles and/or Groups instead of user by user. It would reduce effort when assign large amount of assignees. It also makes it more manageable when changing and removing users from assignee li...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

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 ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Term history

The client required to have the capability the allows to have Term history shows the changes made to a glossary term over time. This section displays if term history is enabled by the Glossary Administrator and changes have been made to the term a...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Business Glossary Anywere

the following complementary functionalities are included and are required by the customer: Business Glossary for Eclipse – Cognos Framework Manager/Report – Designer integration – Governance Dashboard/SQL Views – Stewardship Center/Subscription Ma...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration