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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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Ability to add custom attributes to reference data

I have a customer BCBS of MN who would like to create custom fields for reference data. This will allow them to store more items than the standard out of the box fields.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Bulk update for common columns

From search results for the column through information asset, or catalog, bulk update all columns that have same business terms, description, etc
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Separating the Update Custom Attributes action from the Access advanced governance permission

The permission - Access advanced governance – which includes in its actions – Define custom attributes for information assets. This task requires the Access advanced governance permission, the Manage information assets permission, and the Administ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 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...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Add WKC User table to WKC 4.5

The reporting data mart was added to WKC V4.0.x and adds an important feature to WKC giving the ability for customer written reports. However, while several of the data mart tables contain the user_id field, the user table is not included in the d...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

metadata enrichment filter

The metadata enrichment screens in WKC 4.5 do not have a sort option for the business term column. The stated reason is that more than one term can be assigned. The filter option can filter on business terms and data classes but not for blank. Add...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 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...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 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...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

should be able to view more assets in catalog UI

default for catalog shows 4 assets.if you collapse the "recent" it almost shows 10. So if there is 100, what shows? what 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M. This is way to few since we expect catalogs to be well populated to be useful.
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

WKC User Interface for workflow status and management

WKC should have a workflow status UI and workflow information in the reporting data mart to create reports around workflows. User Story As an Administrator of WKC I need to be able to view and run reports on metrics of change requests (CRs). Withi...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered