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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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Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Workspace Connectivity
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Created on Jun 25, 2018

Catalog Read access translates to read access to data AND metadata

This related to public and private connections.

access to metadata in a catalog can not be managed separately from access to the actual data. As soon as somebody has been granted read access to a catalog or an asset in a catalog they automatically get access to both metadata and data.

If a user has access to a data asset / data connection in the Catalog they are automatically able to either read the data in COS or to use the data connection to connect to the underlying data source impersonating whichever user was entered when the data connection was created.

So if Bob creates a data connection to BigSQL using his credentials and shares that data connection in a Catalog or Project with Alice then Alice will be able to log into BigSQL with Bob's user id.