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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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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.

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Column Customization and Filtering on the Business Term Page

Our customer would like to view fields such as “Data Owner” as columns on the Business Term page and filter based on this information. Therefore, it is suggested to make the grid structure customizable (e.g., adding/removing columns, adjusting vis...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' secti...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition.

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition. Today we need to bind every column one by one to the same definition variable (in case of 10 tables with 20 columns each, we need 200...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Notify detected modification with Tag 'modified'

When, as a result of an MDI process, IKC detects a modification (appearance of the "modified" tag on an asset at the MDE level), it is necessary, to ensure the proper management of this change, that the tool is capable of sending a communication (...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Regex for Business Terms

There could be a feature where Business Terms could be automatically linked to fields/tables using REGEX, just like what happens with data classes.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Ability to edit Governance and catalogs predefined values

CP4D -> Governance and catalogs -> Asset and Artefact definitions -> Assets -> Select an asset -> add new property Give it a name -> select type predefined value -> enter values Values cannot be edited, if we do a typo, forget...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to clone a project

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to clone a project in Watson Discovery. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, there was the possibility to clone a project (c...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Web Crawl or Connector for Atlassian Confluent

There is no support for web crawler or connector to integrate with Atlassian Confluent.
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted