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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

How to identify missing assets between IKC catalog and reporting DB

How to identify missing assets between IKC catalog and reporting DB so that we can re-trigger them
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules. Today, when creating Data Protection rules you need to type the column header names you want to select and it is very err...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Configurable retry mechanism for failed jobs within IKC

We would like to propose the addition of a configurable retry mechanism for failed jobs within IKC. Specifically, the feature should allow users to define retry parameters such as:• Retry interval (e.g., every 5 minutes)• Maximum number of retry a...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Old users are still part of all the catalogs and projects even after moved away from organization.

After user left the organization and user is been removed from ADOM group the ICP4D needs to have the capability to remove the users, but what could be the consequences like if the left user has any assets or projects or catalogs associated with h...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Hard limit license enhancement request for Watsonx Data Intelligence

Our customer like to request an enhancement to Watsonx Data Intelligence with the licensing services such that in case the RU consumption exceeds the threshold, they want the service tol halt and does not consume any more license.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple rules add the ability to sort

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple they are listed by order they were assigned. We would like to have the ability to sort the column
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration