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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.

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Add method for deleting/modifying/taking ownership of data governance artifacts

There is currently no way in the UI to take ownership of, or delete/modify artifacts that were created by users who were later deleted from Cloud Pak. This leaves the system with orphaned artifacts with no clear path for removal. Businesses sho...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Lineage at Data Assets level

The latest documentation available for Cloud Pak for Data 4.0: https://www.ibm.com/support/producthub/icpdata/docs/content/SSQNUZ_latest/wsj/governance/ia-lineage.html indicates that the lineage capability is available only at Information Assets l...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Business Terms - Catalog Assets

As part of the data governance / data stewardship workflow in the default and non-default catalogs, I want to see the business terms on the overview and asset preview tabs without having to click into the column name. The business term should disp...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Request Data Preview Capability in Default Catalog through Generic JDBC

Customer requests 'data preview' function in Default Catalog via Generic JDBC, thereby, data asset can be previewed for database type that doesn’t support by CP4D-WKC in the current stage. (As far as we know only about 3 databases are supported)
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Rules should pick up metadata assigned to data classes

Currently, Rules within WKC only picks up data classes, business terms, and classifications that are applied directly to columns/assets within the Catalog, under the asset preview section. We expected that we would be able to create dependent data...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Catalog Asset View - Difficulty

When in the asset view of the catalog, you can't see what business terms have been assigned to a column unless you click on the column (is this because the classes are considered the more important concept to display?). You also cannot search for ...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

User Experience: Business Term Related Assets

At the moment, if you search for a business term, then you are able to see what tables/columns it has been assigned to. But the experience is not intuitive. You do it by selecting the term and then going to the "related content" sub-tab. Once ther...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Support for SQL Server Syntax that uses bracketing around any object name (database, schema, table or column).

SQL Server bracketing syntax is not supported by the sql parser that IGC is using for detecting lineage relationships. This causes lineage to be incomplete and inaccurate.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Update Business Terms in Catalog

If a business term name is updated, the catalog asset linked to the original business term should also reflect the new name. Ex: first draft business term (published): Medical Record Number, linked to 6 data assets in the Default catalog. second d...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 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...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered