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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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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.

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Enhancements to the saved searches for global search

There is not a way to edit anything but the name of a saved search in the Saved searches section of global search. We would need a way to be able to update the filters that are used in that saved search vs deleting it and having to create a new on...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add custom predicates for column masking and row level filtering

Currently, you can only add custom predicates to the Data Protection Service for criteria that are used in allowing access to data. We need the ability to add custom predicates for things like column masking as well. For example, we need to add a ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Option to Have Catalog Hierarchy

We would like the ability to put catalogs within a hierarchical structure. We have all of our business areas within the same system and it would be easier if we could nest catalogs under a BA in order to enable better organization, similar to cate...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability for Data Protection Rule Versioning

We need to be able to see the history of DPRs, including who changed them and what changed on the DPRs. Also, we need the ability to revert to previous versions of the DPRs in case something was changed that should not have been and we need to rol...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support auto-assign Chinese term

Most of Chinese biggest customer is looking for the capability of auto-assign Chinese term. for example:ICBC, PAB, BOC. So their Business Analysis or Data Scientist can understand their data with business term. This is most key step they are looki...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

ADDI should export the flow graphs into multiples pages of a pdf instead of single page.

Most of the code is bit complicated and when the flow-graph is exported to a pdf, the entire graph is stored in a single page, rendering the graph dense and incomprehensible. Instead the graph should be split into multiple pages to ensure that the...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Identified duplicate section of the codes across programs should be suggested/recommended as candidate for refactoring

Once the duplicate section of the codes across programs are identified, then RA should suggest this as a candidate to create a service.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs. There are lot of code with this redundant/duplicate section/paragraphs and all those would be a target for refactoring to simplify the code complexity ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration