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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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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Knowledge Catalog

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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...
over 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...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Business glossary capacity

the customer needs to have a functionality that allows helps you to find business information from any text-based document, Web page, or e-mail.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC granular metrics at asset level

Customer is interested in getting details on metrics like how many people accessed a particular asset. Baiscally their plan is to create a leadership board kind of tool to keep an eye which catalogs or assets are of high value to their end users.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Configurable Data Classification Meta Data Field

My clients have requested a data classification field for a data asset which has a configurable domain of values. For example, an administrator for a customer can define this field to have Public, Confidential, Highly Confidential and Restricted (...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Add separate permissions for metadata enrichment areas in an import project

WKC projects in 4.5.+ use metadata import areas and metadata enrichment areas. Access control is only available at the full project level. In some instances, individual groups of tables need to be enriched by one set of SMEs and other table groups...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Index artifacts term relationships in global search

At the moment only Assets relationships with terms are returned in the global search. However we have relationships between governance rules, policies, classifications, data classes, reference data with terms that are not returned. We will need th...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Properly support MSSQL in Data Discovery

Bank of Thailand have Oracle, Hive, MSSQL, and SAP as their main source. We are trying to sell WKC to make a catalog out of vast different data sources for them. The problem is Data Discovery can only do "shallow sync" of table from MSSQL. The tab...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Add WKC display of version

We use WKC v4.5.1. There is no easy way for WKC users to know the version of the application. Add installed version of WKC in Version Details screen.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Business term should be able to import by CSV file which encoding by SJIS.

When we import from sjis csv file to business term, Japanese character is garbled. We hope to CP4D support SJIS encoding CSV file to import business term. The reason why we need to use SJIS is that the default character set is SJIS on Japanese env...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release