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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Manage allowed values for standards (enterprise wide business data standards, Geo specific, country, application) standards

Within the Chief Data Office organization, we have an IBM Enterprise wide mission within our Data governance team to provide the ability to manage reference values that are required to be consistent and accurate across the board by the stewards of...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Classification process should automatically "learn" from users' manual overrides (per tenant)

Organizations may have a specific pattern for storing data such as person names that don't fit our OOTB regex. For example,names may be stored as "CADOW, EDWARD O (Ed)" in a given system. The inferred classification is Text rather than "Person Nam...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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

allow schema refresh for data assets in the UI

While testing ibmwdp, I ran the scenario: 1. Create a new project 2. Add a connection to the project for my cloudant database 3. Add a 'connected data" asset to my project, using my cloudant database connection. 4. Initially, the cloudant database...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Governance Dashboard / Policies for specific Catalogs

Can we restrict & limit access to what policies a Governance Dashboard user can see? For example, a large customer with a Finance department would want to see governance rules/policies for Finance areas of the business, but they shouldn't be a...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Support a WDP (or WDP Catalog) connection type that can be consumed by 3rd party tools

We are building WDP Business Metrics Dashboard and wish to use WDP to manage the large number of data sources through the data catalog. However, to completely build this dashboard, we are require to use 3rd party tools in conjunction with WDP. The...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 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

Setup error threshold limit (for invalid rows)

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Link Watson Analytics features

Hi, I not see any integration of Watson Analytics, It could be great to add these features directly.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

support custom object types from data sources

The data platform needs to provide support for custom data types/objects defined by end users of various data sources, such as salesforce. Data from custom data types/objects needs to be exposed and selectable just as the default data types since ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered