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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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:


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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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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.

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Request to have a Trash/Bin Option/Area inside a Project or Catalog

Having a Bin/Trash Section/Area inside a Project or Catalog can be really helpful. If unfortunately, if any one deletes the Connection or asset’s or any other inside a project or Catalog, we can restore them very quickly without any impact. Real-t...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Filter assets in a connection using REGEX

In many actions within the Knowledge Catalog, we must select which assets inside a connection we will use. One example is selecting the assets that will be part of a metadata import. In our experience, we have encountered many cases where we neede...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Need workflow capabilities for MDE reviewing

Need workflow capabilities for MDE reviewing: column level reviews assigned, when all columns for a given asset are reviewed then a workflow notification for asset review, when all assets for a given MDE are reviewed then a workflow notification f...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need audit logging event for MDE reviews

Customer must audit and because admins have elevated priviledges could bypass the process, the customer must monitor that the reviewer is now the submitter.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

SAS Connector for IKC: Catalog SAS Libraries, Datasets, and Variables (SAS Enterprise Guide / Metadata Server)

IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Knowledge Catalog We use SAS Enterprise Guide with SAS Metadata Server to manage Libraries (schemas), Datasets (tables), and Variables (columns). We need to catalog and govern these metadata assets in the IBM Knowledge...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Projects Id needs to be deleted from catalog assets when the project is removed.

Project name is not captured in the connections table whereas project ID is available. If the project name is deleted, then related project id also should be removed from the Catalog assets.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration