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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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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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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,

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  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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Knowledge Catalog

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Social media enrichment(ratings) for search results

Customer needs to see the ratings given for an asset when the asset is listed in the search results and also want to display the assets with highest rating at the top of the search results.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Need the ability to see the SQL used in creating the 'View'(Data Asset) as part of View metadata.

Customer needs to see the query (SQL) used in creating a View from one or more tables as part of the View's Metadata in the Catalog.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Need filters for tables, Views and Connections while displaying Search results

Competitive functionality - Currently when a search is performed, the assets like Tables, Views, Connections are bucketed under 'Data' filter option on the left pane. The customer needsw to have separate filters for Tables, Views and Connections s...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Separating the Update Custom Attributes action from the Access advanced governance permission

The permission - Access advanced governance – which includes in its actions – Define custom attributes for information assets. This task requires the Access advanced governance permission, the Manage information assets permission, and the Administ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Continued support for OpenIGC for all future versions of WKC

Many customers have invested significant resources to build custom metadata and lineage integration to custom and 3rd party applications using OpenIGC. With the planned removal of IGC components from WKC, these customers would be faced with signif...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Add WKC User table to WKC 4.5

The reporting data mart was added to WKC V4.0.x and adds an important feature to WKC giving the ability for customer written reports. However, while several of the data mart tables contain the user_id field, the user table is not included in the d...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

metadata enrichment filter

The metadata enrichment screens in WKC 4.5 do not have a sort option for the business term column. The stated reason is that more than one term can be assigned. The filter option can filter on business terms and data classes but not for blank. Add...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Global searchable custom attributes on governance artifacts

Ability to do a global search on the custom attributes assigned to governance artifacts similar as for custom attributes on assets. This will help the end user being able to search for information that is captured in the custom attributes but also...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Searching catalog should provide option to filter asset properties to search

Currently, catalog search looks for matching keywords in these asset properties: Tags Name Description Terms Column names If catalog search retunes hundreds of items from different assets properties, it's very difficult to find the right items. Se...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

WKC API must return a specific error messages

WKC API must return a specific error so VZ can pinpoint why an extract is failing When the data profiling script is executed, we are receiving errors/ exceptions from the WKC API call intermittently. The response error code that it returns is not ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered