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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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Adding Governance Rules to Business Terms

Currently the way to assign a governance rule to a business term is to go into the Governance Rule view, go to Related artifacts, go to Business Terms and select the appropriate Business Term. In IGC, one could assign the governance rule from the ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Configurable Data Classification Meta Data Field

My clients have requested a data classification field for a data asset which has a configurable domain of values. For example, an administrator for a customer can define this field to have Public, Confidential, Highly Confidential and Restricted (...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Properly support MSSQL in Data Discovery

Bank of Thailand have Oracle, Hive, MSSQL, and SAP as their main source. We are trying to sell WKC to make a catalog out of vast different data sources for them. The problem is Data Discovery can only do "shallow sync" of table from MSSQL. The tab...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Alpha sorting of details against business terms and a filter option

if a business term has multiple categories, related terms or related articles there is no option to sort the details and they are in order of how they have been added/assigned to that term. current work around is having to export to excel, copy in...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Business term should be able to import by CSV file which encoding by SJIS.

When we import from sjis csv file to business term, Japanese character is garbled. We hope to CP4D support SJIS encoding CSV file to import business term. The reason why we need to use SJIS is that the default character set is SJIS on Japanese env...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

[Copy] Amazon S3 Connector

Problem Statement: As part of IIS 11.7.1 SP2 implementation activities, we tried setting up Amazon S3 connector for us to be able to scan the data files and import them into IGC. During the setup process and while working on the access requirem...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Enabling API to provide backup feasibility on Data Quality Projects and WKC artifacts

Client have a number of Data Quality projects and WKC artifacts. When a situation occus to crate back up or recover from these projects client would like to use cpd-cli tool or the APIs.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

WKC needs to allow specification of access policies at the folder level within a data asset

a) We need to be able to set an access policy for a whole table that might be represented by multiple parquet files in a folder. b) We need to be able to set an access policy for all the files in a bucket.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Data Quality Score in Catalog Search

Adding a column in the asset search window that shows the quality score of data assets (much like Watson Analytics and Data Connect do). This is extremely helpful as we can then create policies that don't allow users to use data assets below x sco...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Provide the Catalog Owner the ability to approve all assets to be published by federated administrators.

To facilitate sharing of content across enterprise organizations multiple teams will need the ability to publish assets. To ensure these assets meet the guidelines of the Catalog Owner and the organizations data policy there need to be oversight /...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release