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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.

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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Knowledge Catalog

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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...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Hive Connector with a Kerberos authentication

We need an option to connect to a Hive using Kerberos authentication. Previously the IBM offering team offered us to use a "Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop" connector from IBM but it doesn't fully suit our need and here is why: this "Hive via...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Watson Discovery Integration with Watson Knowledge Catalog to Govern Insights / Access to Collections

Enable watson discovery service over watson knowledge catalog assets and watson studio projects in a way that allows for governed access across collections and indexes. Similar to the way one can restrict what people can access in WEX, integrating...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Enable reporting feature through API

Do we have any set of API's for the reporting feature to start reporting programmatically from the code level.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

MDI Job to eliminate System tables

So when we run an MDI Job by selecting all the Schemas available in the Connected Data Source, after the MDI Completes the Job status gets failed & when we try to troubleshoot by navigating into the Job we can see it is failed due to of System...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Expansion of Data Dictionary to Include Non-Connected Assets and APIs

The UI should provide basic import capabilities to allow assets to be created/maintained in the data dictionary from metadata provided in .csv format (or similar). These assets may or may not have associated connection information in CP4D but shou...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered