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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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Knowledge Catalog

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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...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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

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...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Column level classification assignment

Customer wants to use "Classification" artifact type for PII instead of business term. Currently, we don't support classification assignment at column level, and also classifications are not auto-assigned and does not support ML. Since most of the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Custom attribute value doing a live lookup on the table, instead of predefined value

This functionality is for the Custom Attribute to be able to connect to a database and then read the data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed (searchable) so that the user can search by typing visually. The other requi...
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

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 ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Bulk update for category management

It takes at least 7 mouse clicks to change the primary category for an governance asset. It would be more efficient to be able to multi-select assets (e.g., business terms or data classes) and then assign a new (primary) category. Use case example...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered