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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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Notify stewards when someone comments

Current behaviour: you can comment on a data class within WKC but the steward of that class doesn't get notified (bell on main landing page). User would expect that a steward gets notified when they comment on one of their assets/artifacts. For ex...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to discover assets from IA OpenScale data marts

AI OpenScale data marts contain model payload and other deployed model execution metrics from specific WML deployment. This data will be consumed by data scientists. WML has python library for making this data available to data scientists but this...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Make it possible to search Japanese terms in Business Glossary

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points When Business Glossary terms are in Japanese, it is not searchable in terms search field. -state your current workaround(s), Search by tags in English. -state any proposed ...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Preview function Support for Greenplum in 'default catalog'

PMR feedback: only the following connections in the data preview is supported in default catalog: • Db2 (native and JDBC connections) • Oracle (JDBC connections) • Teradata (JDBC connections Customer ’s data source is Greenplum, which is not on th...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

WKC needs to allow specification of access policies at the folder level within a data asset

a) We need to be able to set an access policy for a whole table that might be represented by multiple parquet files in a folder. b) We need to be able to set an access policy for all the files in a bucket.
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

WKC recognizes multiple files in a bucket as a single data asset,

We need this because we want to be able to enter metadata only and access policies once for all files that comprise a data source. Specific examples: a) Uploading multiple pdfs needs to be able to store pdfs for a particular geo in a folder. Th...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Show more info on asset in the Knowledge Catalog

In general the information shown on any asset in the Knowledge Catalog UI is fairly minimal, both on the overview page as well as the details page. Consider adding: - size information for files - record count information for data base tables etc...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Identify Flat File - Import of CSV using headers or file sample / also in batch manner

Right now my understanding is there are 2 ways to import csv files. The file connector and the Information Analyzer identify flat file. The file connector is cumbersome because i have to describe every column 1 by 1 and it is not really feasible w...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Removing a data asset from a project or catalog does not delete it from COS

Whenever a data asset gets removed from either a Watson Studio Project or a Watson Knowledge Catalog the actual file is not removed from the underlying Cloud Object Storage bucket. The result is that there will be a lot of unreferenced files in C...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add "issues" function to assets in the Knowledge Catalog

Allow users to add multiple "issues" to assets inside the Knowledge Catalog similar to how one would add issues to a file in a Git repo. This can be used to keep track of outstanding problems with an asset, document limitations, add requirements e...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration