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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Data Catalog dynamic IP address frustrates IP address security filters in remote clouds and on-premise systems.

I'm testing the Data Catalog's ability to access a remote(to IBM's cloud) relational database. I provisioned a NoSQL database using AWS RDS service. I wanted to set the AWS security group to only permit access from the IP address used by the Data ...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Catalog: Deny ability to publish data assets when asset with same name already exists in the catalog

Currently the WDP - Data Catalog allows any user of a project to publish any data asset and will always create a new set of assets. In my case when working with the catalog, I published the SAME data asset multiple times to my catalog because I wa...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos. Al...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Provide the ability to create a Catalog using a single Cloud Object Storage bucket

Provide the ability to create a Catalog against a single Cloud Object Storage bucket. This provides several benefits: - The ability to use a Cloud Object Storage bucket as an "Incoming Destination" to quarantine all new content - It enables a s...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Item Export sheet should show the drop-down list of Display Attribute for Lookup type attribute.

Current Behaviour: When we export the item, the lookup attribute is exported only as a primary key(the drop-down list contains primary key.) Idea/Requirement: In the Item Export for the lookup type attribute user should have choice to export as pr...
about 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Connector to URL addressable data source

Connect to a data source which is URL addressable to catalog it.
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Encryption/Decryption of columns

requested by Watson Health
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC - Governance Artifact import option needed

when importing governance artifacts into WKC v3.5x using a csv file import, the second window asks for the "merge option" and provides 3 options to select from - Replace all values; Replace only defined values; and Replace only empty values. It wo...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

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 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Compose for Scylla Connector

Compose for Scylla is one of the Compose services on Bluemix. Adding it as a connector could help boost usage.
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration