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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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Data Asset View w/ Business Term Export

Looking for a simple export functionality, into CSV, the MDE asset view which includes the business term and the description along with the column name it is assigned to. The user has the ability to view and select multiple assets and/or columns n...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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

Watson Discovery Integration with Watson Knowledge Catalog to Govern Insights / Access to Collections

Enable watson discovery service over watson knowledge catalog assets and watson studio projects in a way that allows for governed access across collections and indexes. Similar to the way one can restrict what people can access in WEX, integrating...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Source data type in Catalog

The source data type is not visible in the catalog. The type that is displayed in not the actual Data type instead it is the "Inferred data type" and this is fully dependendent on the sampling used in the Metadata enrichment at project.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Add method for deleting/modifying/taking ownership of data governance artifacts

There is currently no way in the UI to take ownership of, or delete/modify artifacts that were created by users who were later deleted from Cloud Pak. This leaves the system with orphaned artifacts with no clear path for removal. Businesses sho...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 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

Discover assets from Amazon Redshift

When discover assets from Amazon Redshift, Analysis quality failed using latest driver redshift-jdbc42-2.0.0.2 or RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.51.1078 Error message: The connector requested that the driver set the transaction isolation level to TR...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Governance Workflows by Steward

As a business SME, owner, or steward assigned to a governance artifact, I would like to know when that governance artifact has been created, modified, or deleted. Governance workflows should be configured so that a steward on an artifact is listed...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Need capability to aggregate rules in one rule set to be executed and reported on

As a Data Steward, I would like flexibility to schedule:a) Each dq rule as a standalone job and receive notification per job in the case of failureb) All dq rules applicable for one table as one job and receive notification per job in the case of ...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered