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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Write permissions on properties based on roles

As a data steward I would like to only allow specific properties to be edited but specific users. eg. a data quality officer to only be able to link a data quality rule to my asset. A data protection officer to only be able to edit classification ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 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.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Governance Artifacts search in WKC Categories should include Governance Artifakts from Subcategories

Consider the following Example: There is a Category "Driving Vehicles" with 2 subcategories (at the same level): "Automobile" and "Bicycle". Furthermore there is a Business Term "VW Beetle", categorized as "Automobile". Currently, within the secti...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

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.
over 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.
over 3 years 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...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 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...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration

Data Knowledge Catalog - Data Asset Versioning

Use case: 1. uploaded a data asset2. added new rows or columns to this data asset file Add functionality to add a new version of existing data asset W/O creating a new data asset?
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Require UI-based method for bulk data enrichment at scale

Review all columns at once for business terms and data classes instead of going column by column: - When MDE completed, customer wanted to update terms and data classes as simple as editing in excel. Currently you have to click for term assignment...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration