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


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Knowledge Catalog

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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.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to respond to Ratings and Reviews of assets in WKC

Currently, a user can submit a review with a star-rating for assets in the data catalog. Would like the ability to be able to respond to these reviews to provide clarification, correction, etc as is done on many retail web sites for products.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add separate permissions for metadata enrichment areas in an import project

WKC projects in 4.5.+ use metadata import areas and metadata enrichment areas. Access control is only available at the full project level. In some instances, individual groups of tables need to be enriched by one set of SMEs and other table groups...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term Currently, if I have 2 Policy "Policy 1" and "Policy 2" artifact and publish it Create 2 Business Term "Term 1" and "Term 2" and publish it Go to policy "Policy 1" and add Art...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Index artifacts term relationships in global search

At the moment only Assets relationships with terms are returned in the global search. However we have relationships between governance rules, policies, classifications, data classes, reference data with terms that are not returned. We will need th...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

IA Data Quality rules Table Join keys operators

Operators - Within IA Data Quality rule development, Currently we can only join tables with = operator on Keys under Joins Tab. There is no way we can join tables using >= or <= operators . For example we would like to join tables where Tabl...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration

Add attribute "example" for terms

While I'm working to migrate the bussiness metadata from legacy IBM IGC to WKC, we realized that attribute "example" is no longer supported in WKC (PMR TS009686972) It will be really helpfull to have this attribute from now on instead of concatena...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

WKC can catalog bookmarks as references to external web sites, rss feeds, opendata sources, live streams of data

Not all data relevant for analytics is in a repository asset under an organisation control. There is a lot of interesting data sources that are public and external to the user organisation. Cataloguing such knowledge is also helpful. It includes: ...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration