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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.

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.

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


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Knowledge Catalog

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Make Reference Data Set content searchable in global search

While Reference Data Set names can be searched in WKC Global Search, we need to be able to search the individual codes or attributes in the data set. EX: if one of the codes in in the Country Codes Reference Data Set is AUS, searching for AUS woul...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Allow user to specify catalog as the target for automatically discovered data assets

Currently when user checks the option to discover data assets on a connection, the discovered data assets are always added to a (staging) project first, with expectation that the user will then go to the project, and then select the ones he wishes...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Support REST as an asset source in WDP Data Catalog

In attempting to build a business metrics and analytics dashboard we are finding many of our data sources can only be accessed through a REST api. Because of this we are unable to use the catalog to manage the sources from within WDP. Adding suppo...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

should be able to view more assets in catalog UI

default for catalog shows 4 assets.if you collapse the "recent" it almost shows 10. So if there is 100, what shows? what 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M. This is way to few since we expect catalogs to be well populated to be useful.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Task Inbox Activities Panel View Pane - Increase Size and make dynamic (scalable)

When a comment is added to a task in the Task Inbox it is saved in the Activities Panel. However, the vertical size of that panel is literally 3 mm (yes, I measured it)! It is functionally totally useless for any purpose, especially effective coll...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 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

Rely on Cloud IAM to control individualized access to IBM Cloud assets

The Cloud Platform has made a significant investment in IAM enablement over the past year as part of the One Cloud work. I think we could do a better job of leveraging this system in Catalog to help users create a secure, well-governed data lake. ...
over 5 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 ...
over 2 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...
over 2 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