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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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Native WKC Databricks Unity connector

As we move to leveraging data in Azure, we need to be able to connect to that data from Watson Knowledge Catalog so we can govern and enrich the data. We currently have a short-term solution for connecting WKC to Databricks Unity catalog using the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Integration between WKC and Cognos

The more customers work on the idea of the "Ladder to AI", the more integration between all steps is needed. When defining Metadata and Governance in WKC, using the assets in Watson Studio, DataStage and other components, Cognos should be taken in...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Pause all scheduled project jobs

similar to idea UNIFIEDCAT-I-558, we have multiple scheduled MDI/MDE/DQ jobs all with various schedules. During WKC or source system maintenance windows or outages or to pause WKC cluster resource usage we need one global option to pause all sched...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Adding AD LDAP Steward Groups should add the AD Group Users as Individual Stewards

When a LDAP Group (Steward Users LDAP Group) is added all the Users under the LDAP Group should be shown up as Stewards. Currently in IGC: LDAP Groups added under IGC -->Administration --> Manage Stewards, Users under the LDAP Group does not...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Request to Have a Pause Option for MDI/MDE Job from UI & API Level

The DBA of XYZ Database will be giving a timely schedule (~Cool Period to Database) to run MDI & MDE Job due to Huge/Multiple Users Connections to DB at peak Hours. Let's say if I scheduled a Job to run on a particular interval of time, if the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Global search not supported for Custom Properties

Custom Properties are not searchable using Global Search, however, this is supported currently when added via Watson Data API
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Req ID 92 Unable to see all relation in explore relation window

Steps to reproduce Create a term and add all the relevant attributes and relations Add Classification and Data Classes Add Other related business term Add Policy, Column ,Governance Rule on the term Publish the term Now click on the three dots on ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Hive Connector with a Kerberos authentication

We need an option to connect to a Hive using Kerberos authentication. Previously the IBM offering team offered us to use a "Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop" connector from IBM but it doesn't fully suit our need and here is why: this "Hive via...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered