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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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Export and import of workflow configurations for deployment process

We would like to test our workflow configurations before we move them to prod. Sometimes the configurations can be quite complex, especially if there are plenty of categories selected. Combined with e.g. terms and rules, we might have 60 lines in ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Workflow Enhancements

From the task status page, being able to search off of the name of the task title. Our administrators sometimes get asked what tasks may still be open for a particular governance artifact and it is difficult to find since we cannot search on the t...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Links to direct items within IKC do not work unless the user is logged into CP4D first

If we link to a specific asset, catalog, governance artifact, or any page within IKC and share that link. A user clicking on the link will ultimately receive an error unless they are first logged into the environment before clicking on the link. I...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Customizability for Views and Filtering on Governance Artifact Sections and Catalog Overview Pages

From the catalog overview page or from governance artifact pages like the ones that list the business terms, classifications, etc., we want a way for a user to be able to customize what metadata fields they see. They should be able to choose from ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enhancements to the saved searches for global search

There is not a way to edit anything but the name of a saved search in the Saved searches section of global search. We would need a way to be able to update the filters that are used in that saved search vs deleting it and having to create a new on...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add custom predicates for column masking and row level filtering

Currently, you can only add custom predicates to the Data Protection Service for criteria that are used in allowing access to data. We need the ability to add custom predicates for things like column masking as well. For example, we need to add a ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

View Subcategory Governance Artifacts from a Higher Level Category Page

If you are in a category that contains subcategories, you currently can only see governance artifacts that are in that particular category as their primary category. It would be good to see all of the governance artifacts that are in its subcatego...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Option to Have Catalog Hierarchy

We would like the ability to put catalogs within a hierarchical structure. We have all of our business areas within the same system and it would be easier if we could nest catalogs under a BA in order to enable better organization, similar to cate...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

MSSQL platform connection fails when user attempts to save the connection

Users are facing issues with MSSQL platform connection when attempting to save the connection for created projects. Users are able to test the connection successfully but are not able to save the connection which is stopping the users from perform...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review