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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.

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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Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Filtering & export for activity log

After a while the current activity log will become quite long, and it will have a mixture of different types of content - edits, workflow actions, pure comments etc. It will be difficult to e.g. focus only on comments, because they're mixed with e...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Minor edits should not trigger a workflow

Any workflow adds work. Not all modifications are of equal importance, some the user should be able to do alone. It would be good to be able to define attributes which can be considered of minor importance and those would be just auto-published. O...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Category export should provide collaborators with their roles

Users should be able to export all important category information. Now collaborators of the category are not exported. I think collaborators and their roles are vital information of the category. In addition, when exporting categories the template...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

The incremental Import option is not available for GCP BigQuery connection for MDI

We need incremental import option for GCP Big Query connection for MDI's.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration