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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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Product Master

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Decoupling the enable bulk import option in workflow step with Allow Import into Step checkbox.

As per the current functionality, bulk import option in the workflow step is enabled only when we select Allow Import into Step checkbox which is available at workflow step level. When this particular checkbox is selected it is enabling '+' button...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Hide the http ports from backend of the IBM Product Master Operator

In the current IPM Operator, the deployed IPM application connects to URL with HTTPS however the backend connection happens with HTTP port. The client wants to prevent any exposed open http port. They would like to have frontend and backend to con...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications in Business UI.

Hi Team, The support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications which has been removed from Business UI now. It will be good if we keep supporting that option as we see multiple use cases where need to have lookup referencing...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Category updates not reflected in Audit History

Currently Item audit history table only keeps changed attributes information, for example old value/new value of attributes. Category mapping information are not captured. This feature is not there in the product. Users update categories in workfl...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Updating free text search instruction

We are using Free Text Search which is great for the customers, however is it possible to update the instructions note provided against the Free Text Search? Every customer is unique and they need not necessarily be a super user to understand the ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Easy way to search through grouping type attributes

Currently we have grouping type attribute, that can go up to 40 occurences which makes it harder for users to search specific value when ehy have mulitple pages for this attribute. We need an easier way to search for specific occurrence when havin...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Add User name and user's IP address in the mdmce.log file

At TD, we have an audit requirement to see the user's IP address and also the user who activate the process in the log file.
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration