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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.

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Add Workflow Assignees by Roles and/or Groups

When create/update Governance workflows, add Assignees by Roles and/or Groups instead of user by user. It would reduce effort when assign large amount of assignees. It also makes it more manageable when changing and removing users from assignee li...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

business term extraction for a FIPS enabled system

Even after the upgrade to 3.0.1/1.0.7.1, we are still not able to use the business term extraction tool. Just downloading/uploading the sample pdf provided on the UI gives us "Error Uploading File. Click here to try again." message.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Is a defect

Bulk update for common columns

From search results for the column through information asset, or catalog, bulk update all columns that have same business terms, description, etc
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Adding assets from the default catalog to individual catalogs

Operation is easier if you can select data assets and data connections that have business terms assigned to them from the default catalog and push them to individual data catalogs. Even if you automatically assign a term in data discovery, it refl...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Export all of Business terms or filtered terms

There is no method to export all of Business terms, they have to be exported per category. In addition, could there be more options to export Business terms based upon search results, predefined category combinations, classifications, tags, etc.
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Discovery fall out queues for generating new terms

When doing discovery and mapping the terms many of the fields can't be mapped to a term. It is not a matter of AI not doing its job but there is no appropriate term. This applies to the ones that have no term assignment During the discovery proces...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 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...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Custom-SQL MITI Bridges should report which scripts fail

When importing metadata with OpenIGC Custom-SQL bridges, like the PL/SQL and BTEQ ones, a directory with many scripts is specified in the parameters. If one script from that directory fails, no warning message is shown in the output, we just get "...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release