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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Knowledge Catalog

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Adding AD LDAP Steward Groups should add the AD Group Users as Individual Stewards

When a LDAP Group (Steward Users LDAP Group) is added all the Users under the LDAP Group should be shown up as Stewards. Currently in IGC: LDAP Groups added under IGC -->Administration --> Manage Stewards, Users under the LDAP Group does not...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Watson Discovery Integration with Watson Knowledge Catalog to Govern Insights / Access to Collections

Enable watson discovery service over watson knowledge catalog assets and watson studio projects in a way that allows for governed access across collections and indexes. Similar to the way one can restrict what people can access in WEX, integrating...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Integration between WKC and Cognos

The more customers work on the idea of the "Ladder to AI", the more integration between all steps is needed. When defining Metadata and Governance in WKC, using the assets in Watson Studio, DataStage and other components, Cognos should be taken in...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Hive Connector with a Kerberos authentication

We need an option to connect to a Hive using Kerberos authentication. Previously the IBM offering team offered us to use a "Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop" connector from IBM but it doesn't fully suit our need and here is why: this "Hive via...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Ability to link Data Quality Rules to Governance Rules (Similar to in IGC)

Need ability to link Data Quality Rules to Governance Rules (Similar to in IGC), this option not available in UI in 4.6.3 version
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Global searchable custom attributes on governance artifacts

Ability to do a global search on the custom attributes assigned to governance artifacts similar as for custom attributes on assets. This will help the end user being able to search for information that is captured in the custom attributes but also...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Discover assets from Amazon Redshift

When discover assets from Amazon Redshift, Analysis quality failed using latest driver redshift-jdbc42-2.0.0.2 or RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.51.1078 Error message: The connector requested that the driver set the transaction isolation level to TR...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Governance Workflows by Steward

As a business SME, owner, or steward assigned to a governance artifact, I would like to know when that governance artifact has been created, modified, or deleted. Governance workflows should be configured so that a steward on an artifact is listed...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

When data is scanned using Quick Scan, customer would like to see options to be able to publish the data into a specific catalog and not the default catalog

Data Security Officer would like to restrict access to certain asset information to a group or division of people. Being able to publish discovered assets into catalog would be a big step towards achiveing zoning.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered