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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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Knowledge Catalog

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Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Query optimization option for SQL statement would need to add the LOCKING ROW FOR ACCESS.

We need an enhancement request submitted in Aha to get query optimization options like Prefixes that go before the "Select" keyword, i.e. to enable "locking row for access"
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Support for mass application and management of data rules

We would like better facilities for managing large numbers of data rules. Think hundreds to thousands.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

User searches by any word (except the first word) in the MDE asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the metadata enrichment asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'. Reproduction: Login to ICP4D => Navigate to Projects => All projects Any Project => Assets tab => Metadata...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

#cpfield User able to see Terms from restricted Category on DQ Project

The user should not be able to see the Business terms when the user does not have access to a primary category during the manual term assignment in a DQ project.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Governance Artifacts search in WKC Categories should include Governance Artifakts from Subcategories

Consider the following Example: There is a Category "Driving Vehicles" with 2 subcategories (at the same level): "Automobile" and "Bicycle". Furthermore there is a Business Term "VW Beetle", categorized as "Automobile". Currently, within the secti...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Role based comments field for governance assets

Currently any user can add comments to a governance asset via the right hand side information pop-out. This is useful but could lead to a lot of noise if everyone is leaving comments.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to respond to Ratings and Reviews of assets in WKC

Currently, a user can submit a review with a star-rating for assets in the data catalog. Would like the ability to be able to respond to these reviews to provide clarification, correction, etc as is done on many retail web sites for products.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration