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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.

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Assigning a Term on the Column Mapping page

Tested in Development Environment. Assigning a Term on the Column Mapping page. Steps to Reproduce. 1. Logged into ICP4D Maria 2. Navigate to All Projects 3. Open a DQ Project  4. Click on a data asset (table). then data asset colu...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Unable to use DB Connection and Discovery connection available to everyone

The DB connection was create by platform admin team. When trying to use the connection via Data Discovery job the application is asking for UserName and Password. The stewards would not have passwords available with them. The application should le...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Quick Scan job - Selected 100 schemas and if it discovers only 85 the remaining should show up to match

Tested using ICP4D MARIA environment. Steps to Reproduce Log in to MARIA ICP4D navigate to Quick Scan Selected 100 schemas and discovered only 65. No status on other missed schemas. Even if it has ) Tables it should count that also to ma...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration

Collaboration record for Governance Artifacts

workflows for governance artifacts (terms, data classes, etc.) have optional or required comment boxes for collaborators on the artifacts to add to. This is required if an approval is rejected in a workflow. Those comments do not appear to the req...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Request searching function when creating data rule from data rule definition

Customer need searching function when creating data rule from data rule definition as it's hard to find out the right one when hundreds rule definition listed there
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Informatica bridge for Linux version

Customer would like to use CP4D to view lineage for Informatica BDM. We provide a bridge solution on windows. But customer doesn’t allow windows in production environment. and learnt only windows version is a formal release in the future. currentl...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Oracle thin client connection capabilities requiring specification of URL

We need to connect WKC to Oracle using Oracle Connection Manager using the JDBC thin client. This requires the ability to specify the connection URL with a significant string length. Currently when the Oracle connection type is specified there is ...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 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.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Identify Flat File - Import of CSV using headers or file sample / also in batch manner

Right now my understanding is there are 2 ways to import csv files. The file connector and the Information Analyzer identify flat file. The file connector is cumbersome because i have to describe every column 1 by 1 and it is not really feasible w...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Improving the bridge FileSystem OpenIGC bridge to import Excel file with File Name and Folder

Only one bridge (is FileSystem in OpenIGC bridge) can import Excel file. But with this bridge, there are no File name and Folder hierarchy imported to IGC. Need improve it to more useful metadata to end users.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration