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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos....
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Provide the ability to create a Catalog using a single Cloud Object Storage bucket

Provide the ability to create a Catalog against a single Cloud Object Storage bucket. This provides several benefits: - The ability to use a Cloud Object Storage bucket as an "Incoming Destination" to quarantine all new content - It enables a...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Connector to URL addressable data source

Connect to a data source which is URL addressable to catalog it.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Encryption/Decryption of columns

requested by Watson Health
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Quality Score in Catalog Search

Adding a column in the asset search window that shows the quality score of data assets (much like Watson Analytics and Data Connect do). This is extremely helpful as we can then create policies that don't allow users to use data assets below x sco...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Compose for Scylla Connector

Compose for Scylla is one of the Compose services on Bluemix. Adding it as a connector could help boost usage.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Compose for Redis Connector

Compose for Redis is the Bluemix service and has the 3rd highest usage among other Compose services on Bluemix. Redis could be used in an application to emit data into streaming pipelines.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

can we default the asset name, tags and include column metadata for relational data when adding to catalog through a connection to relational data

To make it quicker to populate a catalog, it would be great if there were defaults for asset names - based on the selected schema/table picked. This should also import the descriptions of the column names/types which will be useful for end user to...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Can we have tags be common across the account? instead of per subsystem of subsystem?

Right now, tags are not shared at all. each catalog has their own, a business glossary has their own, etc. etc. Tags, once created should be shareable to promote reuse and simplify the user experience across all of WDP.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration