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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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Get the Data Class id within UI

We are implementing Data Quality rules using the Data Classes. And we cannot get the Data class ID within the UI; we had to use the APIs to get the data class id which is trickier in most cases as our business users are not familiar with APIs, so ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Add capabilities for bulk enrichment of assets

Currently, users have to manually edit enrichment (if for example the worng business term or data class is assigned). It would be a time saver to allow the export of enrichments and then make the changes on an exported csv file and then re-import....
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Expose APIs and/or ability to create rules populate custom properties at the asset level

The feature is to allow implementaors to automate the population of custom properties at the asset level using APIs and/or custome rules. For example,let us say custom properties were created for asset type, such as origin or security-level, then ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API

We need the ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API. We anticipate to update values very frequently doing manually through UI is not efficient.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

User searches by any word (except the first word) in the asset name (Catalog UI), the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the asset name (Catalog UI), the search returns 'No Results Found'
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Create a native way to extract usage informations from IKC

Hello everyone! I'd like to suggest creating a native way to obtain IKC usage information. When I say usage information, I'm referring to data such as:- Which users accessed the tool on a given day?- What were the searches in the search bar?- Whic...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration