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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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Knowledge Catalog

Catalog users need to kick off a feedback workflow on a catalog item

There is a lack of a feedback workflow module in IKC and this impacts our ability to fully leverage the platform capabilities. Users of the data catalog can currently provide comments and rating regarding an asset, but this doesn't kick off a proc...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Group ownership for imported metadata asset in catalog

When I use the "Import metadata from file" function to add a new asset or update an existing asset in an existing catalog, the Owner field is automatically set to my user account instead of an existing group. In enterprise environments, assets are...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Under review

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Provide built-in automated lifecycle management and cleanup for Spark logs, temporary files, and residual runtime artifacts generated by IBM Knowledge Catalog workloads.

IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) relies heavily on Spark-based processing for Metadata Enrichment and other data discovery/governance workloads. In large enterprise environments with frequent and concurrent enrichment executions, Spark can generate a s...
20 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Enable partial and wildcard search on column names in IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, IBM Knowledge Catalog allows searches on column names only when the search term matches the beginning of the column name. For example, considering a column named IE_EMITENTE: Search Term Current Result IE_EMITENTE Found ...
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

CP4D portal‑style customization

Introduce a comprehensive, portal‑style customization framework accessible to platform administrators. The objective is to empower administrators to tailor the appearance, content, and organization of product pages within the CP4D web interface, w...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Show table relationship on relationship Explorer graph

On relationship graph there are many possible ways to look for relationships. But a data asset to data asset relationship that comes from foreign keys is not natively shown. To create that bond by now it is necessary to manually create each relati...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Add DBNAME (Database/Domain) Visibility for Db2 for z/OS Assets on IBM Knowledge Catalog

Large Db2 for z/OS environments commonly use DBNAME as the primary logical structure to organize transactional systems, business domains, and data ownership boundaries. Today, IBM Knowledge Catalog imports Db2 for z/OS assets without exposing the ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration