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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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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.

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Ability to pull back approval request

When somebody send an approval request, we want this person be able to cancel the approval request. When we submit it there is a work around right now but we can submit the request.We know today, we could have an alternate user reject. But the use...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

When editing rules conditions need the ability to see the complete rule name

When editing up rules conditions need the ability to see the complete rule name and would prefer to have some dropdown instead of this list view with limited character view.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Add the ability for more granular IKC user roles

Today, IKC has administrator, owner or editor roles. At large customers, various users need to perform various tasks and they are very cautious of data security. The customer would like to restrict the quantity of administrators. But some tasks li...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 11 Functionality already exists

In IKC when doing meta data import and meta data enrichment, we need the ability to fetch the asset at the column level.

When doing meta data import and meta data enrichment, it is not possible to fetch the asset at the column level. We can only fetch on table levels.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Watson Discovery to support kerberos authentication

Based on the current design, Watson Discovery does not support Kerberos authentication. Could we explore options to implement this?
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

When preforming deny access rules at the system the source properties are hidden.

When preforming deny access rules at the system the source properties that contain connection and connector are hidden for blocked assets. We expect the system to treat the source properties as metadata that is not hidden. The hidden data is at th...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

"Activities for this asset" doesn't catch custom attributes

The system doesn't give us details about updates that are performed at the custom attributes.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

ICP4D Dev Environment - 4.0.2 - Enhancement req - Bulk term assignment - Missing notification at the end of term assignment process

Tested using ICP4D MARIA Dev environment Steps to Reproduce Login to MARIA Dev'Navigate to Data DiscoverySelect one of the completed quick scan jobGo to Columns select Bulk assignment of Business termsClick on assign Terms. Expected Result: As per...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists