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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.

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



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Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Add ability to respond to Ratings and Reviews of assets in WKC

Currently, a user can submit a review with a star-rating for assets in the data catalog. Would like the ability to be able to respond to these reviews to provide clarification, correction, etc as is done on many retail web sites for products.
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

usable error report in the csv upload function

when there are errors in any csv upload into WKC the error report is not usable as the copy to clipboard function no longer separates the errors to individual line. this used to be a properly working function but we have been advised that is no lo...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Support CP4D-WKC on Linux on z

We have a few Z customers in Canada who are currently evaluating a data fabric architecture of having a central data catalog. These customers are currently running Linux on Z (IFLs) and would absolutely prefer the platform to run CP4D for producti...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term Currently, if I have 2 Policy "Policy 1" and "Policy 2" artifact and publish it Create 2 Business Term "Term 1" and "Term 2" and publish it Go to policy "Policy 1" and add Art...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Support adding a bulk list of values to Data Class.

Support adding a bulk list of values to Data Class. Right now, adding a list of values to Data Classes is cumbersome and difficult through the UI. It's a very small window and you have to do it one by one and does not have copy/paste option, it's ...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI. Currently at some page, EDIT button could only perform DELETE, e.g. 1. Go to Business Term artifact option 2. On the Right Hand side you will EDIT button ,click on Edit 3. Edit enables checkbox...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Is a defect

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration