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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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Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Write permissions on properties based on roles

As a data steward I would like to only allow specific properties to be edited but specific users. eg. a data quality officer to only be able to link a data quality rule to my asset. A data protection officer to only be able to edit classification ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Show description of data asset by Magazine view in Knowledge Catalog data asset list

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points The customer can't see the data asset description in Knowledge Catalog's data asset list. -state your current workaround(s) Now the customer see the description by opening t...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Check Grammer in WKC Descriptions

Submitted on behalf of Michelle Leslie, Standard Bank Group, Africa. (michelle@titude.co.za) When a user enters a description to describe an artefact (e.g. business term, reference data set..), the description should be checked for spelling and...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

#cpfield User able to see Terms from restricted Category on DQ Project

The user should not be able to see the Business terms when the user does not have access to a primary category during the manual term assignment in a DQ project.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Governance Artifacts search in WKC Categories should include Governance Artifakts from Subcategories

Consider the following Example: There is a Category "Driving Vehicles" with 2 subcategories (at the same level): "Automobile" and "Bicycle". Furthermore there is a Business Term "VW Beetle", categorized as "Automobile". Currently, within the secti...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Role based comments field for governance assets

Currently any user can add comments to a governance asset via the right hand side information pop-out. This is useful but could lead to a lot of noise if everyone is leaving comments.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Require UI-based method for bulk data enrichment at scale

Review all columns at once for business terms and data classes instead of going column by column: - When MDE completed, customer wanted to update terms and data classes as simple as editing in excel. Currently you have to click for term assignment...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Quality output results in Google BigQuery

Customer needs to be able to store DQ output results into Google BigQuery and it is not part of IBM supported output databases.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration