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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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Mask data based on Tags

In the editor of data protection rules (in the "Action" part of the rule), it is necessary to add the ability to mask data for the specified tags in the date columns of assets.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Displaying the category hierarchy as a tree

When working with a business glossary, it is not enough to display the category hierarchy in the form of a tree. Navigating through categories is very difficult without it.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Support groups in rules, catalogs and categories.

We really need to be able to use local roles and / or groups LDAP in all interfaces of access settings in CP4D. Now only specific users can be specified.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

WKC - Metadata Import of Cognos Assets should also include calculations and expressions performed in Cognos

Currently just the data flow through the imported Cognos artifacts is visible in Information Asset View and Data Lineage. As there is also business logic and KPI calculation in Cognos this information is also important for the Business User analyz...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Role based data view permission in any catalog

By default, imported assets in the catalog have the option to see all data and the data profile. For a business user that needs to query just the available data assets this will give to much options to see data. This could be avoided by data acces...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Automated Discovery schedules Analyze phase for small jobs periodically

While a job with large amount of tables/schema is in process, other small jobs can finish Import phase fast, but they may have a very long delay till Automated Discovery to start their Analyze phase. The idea is to periodically schedule some Analy...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Discovery provides info when runs on empty tables

Discovery provides info when runs on empty tables.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Enhanced imam discover configuration

The discover option of imam command needs more detailed configuration parameters, like the import option. We need the ability to import only tables and not views, synonyms or any other objects. As this is related to our data discovery operations, ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Rule based metadata access control

We don't want everyone to see all the metadata. We want to limit access based on rule and role. For example we don't want Offshore resources to see or figure out how GSAM solutions are built. Or people to see where unmasked SSN is stored. From sec...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

On demand view of sample data from the Term Assignment window

Today, if a legal SME wants to understand the term that is being used need to leave the assignment window to see sample the data for better understanding. This is an extra step. Proposed solution, users with the right access to the data/data sourc...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered