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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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Global searchable custom attributes on governance artifacts

Ability to do a global search on the custom attributes assigned to governance artifacts similar as for custom attributes on assets. This will help the end user being able to search for information that is captured in the custom attributes but also...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Searching catalog should provide option to filter asset properties to search

Currently, catalog search looks for matching keywords in these asset properties: Tags Name Description Terms Column names If catalog search retunes hundreds of items from different assets properties, it's very difficult to find the right items. Se...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

WKC API must return a specific error messages

WKC API must return a specific error so VZ can pinpoint why an extract is failing When the data profiling script is executed, we are receiving errors/ exceptions from the WKC API call intermittently. The response error code that it returns is not ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

WKC User Interface for workflow status and management

WKC should have a workflow status UI and workflow information in the reporting data mart to create reports around workflows. User Story As an Administrator of WKC I need to be able to view and run reports on metrics of change requests (CRs). Withi...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Notification on data asset update/delete or new data asset addition in catalog

Whenever any new data asset added or existing updated and deleted, application need to know those changes and get updated tags/data classes from catalog.Requirement to keep in sync both catalog and application.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Add "label" for columns of Data Assets imported from connected database

Abstract: For WKC catalog, Data Asset imported from Database table, has columns with name that defined in database. It is better to have additional column attribute such as "label" that represents the column in on WKC Data Asset view. (see attache...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Make Reference Data Set content searchable in global search

While Reference Data Set names can be searched in WKC Global Search, we need to be able to search the individual codes or attributes in the data set. EX: if one of the codes in in the Country Codes Reference Data Set is AUS, searching for AUS woul...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Integration between WKC and Cognos

The more customers work on the idea of the "Ladder to AI", the more integration between all steps is needed. When defining Metadata and Governance in WKC, using the assets in Watson Studio, DataStage and other components, Cognos should be taken in...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Unable to add new columns to an existing asset in a catalog

We have a number of Data Virtualization assets in our Default Catalog that our data stewardship team has tagged with business terms and other WKC-related tags, but sometimes these assets are modified to add additional columns. Currently the only w...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Task Inbox Activities Panel View Pane - Increase Size and make dynamic (scalable)

When a comment is added to a task in the Task Inbox it is saved in the Activities Panel. However, the vertical size of that panel is literally 3 mm (yes, I measured it)! It is functionally totally useless for any purpose, especially effective coll...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered