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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Automated Knowledge Accelerator Data Integration for IKC-RDM

Problem Statement: Currently, updating Knowledge Accelerator (KA) data within IKC-RDM (Reference Data Management) requires software upgrades or manual intervention. This limits the flexibility and responsiveness of the system. Proposed Solution: I...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

GIT Integration for Reference Data Management (Source Control Tool)

Problem Statement: Currently, managing code related to Reference Data MAPs, SETs, RD-Types, and small static Reference Data in IKC involves manual code copying across environments, leading to version control challenges and potential deployment inc...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Extended Composite Key Support in IKC-RDM

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM limits the creation of composite keys to a maximum of 6 columns. This restriction can be insufficient for certain reference data sets that require more columns to uniquely identify records. Proposed Solution: ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Datalake HIVE Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Datalake and accessible from Hive Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-pro...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Make custum attribute mandatory

Capability to add an error message on Governance artefacts data entry for mandatory attribute when information is not filled. (custum attribute mandatory if not filled > message)
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

RDS Relationship Explorer

I was hoping the relationship explorer would show that a RDS is related to another one, without necessarily drilling down into the individual values in that RDS. A good use case would be the interrelatedness between Alpha 2 Country, Alpha 3 Countr...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Simultaneously modifying and deleting governance artifacts and asset

On IGC (11.x) -WKC (4.x) migration projects. Clients developed lots of query that they use to search (with many filters) governance artifacts and asset. They also use this feature to bulk modify and delete the searched data. The search phase could...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration