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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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IBM Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Show description in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not see other information about detail of the assets(such as description...
over 4 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

WKC - Multi select option in connected Asset Import in the catalog view

If we add connected assets to a catalog we can only select one asset and have to provide a name for that asset. Usually we import hundreds of tables and this seems quite painful. We would prefer a experience where we can select multiple tables, fi...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

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

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the metadata enrichment asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'. Reproduction: Login to ICP4D => Navigate to Projects => All projects Any Project => Assets tab => Metadata...
5 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

download user group, roles and permissions

to be able to download a list of all available user groups and roles to be able to see what has been set up and available to use that is more accessible than the current hover over pop up on each item. at the moment it is very difficult to see wha...
2 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

usable error report in the csv upload function

when there are errors in any csv upload into WKC the error report is not usable as the copy to clipboard function no longer separates the errors to individual line. this used to be a properly working function but we have been advised that is no lo...
2 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Support CP4D-WKC on Linux on z

We have a few Z customers in Canada who are currently evaluating a data fabric architecture of having a central data catalog. These customers are currently running Linux on Z (IFLs) and would absolutely prefer the platform to run CP4D for producti...
2 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Ability to reorganize Custom Properties, Classifications, Business Terms

Currently OOTB: 1- Custom properties are listed in alphabetical order 2- business terms and classifications are ordered by creation date We cannot change the order once it is assigned. Why it is important, For Example - we have assigned a Term whi...
5 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

WKC - -support the concept of group to assign roles

Currently only single user can be authorized in CPD. As with WKC many user may access the platform and have to be administered. Synchronizing groups from LDAP and assigning roles to a group wil be requested.
almost 3 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Data Quality APIs

APIs for DQ. Accessing definitions from outside WKC, pushing definitions into WKC, etc.
over 2 years ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
3 months ago in Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review