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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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Ability to profile JSON data stored in COS

While trying to profile a JSON file, we noticed that we can use CP4D 3.0 to profile a JSON file from local file system. The same cannot be done if one upload the simple JSON file to COS, then try to profile that simple JSON file stored as parquet ...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Data Request - integrate with WKC assets

Data Request is a great feature when Data Consumer (Scientists or Analytics) request access to data they had not before. The work to be done by the Data Engineer or Data Steward whould be full integrated into WKC / the asset catalog. Instead of de...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Bulk update for common columns

From search results for the column through information asset, or catalog, bulk update all columns that have same business terms, description, etc
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Properly support MSSQL in Data Discovery

Bank of Thailand have Oracle, Hive, MSSQL, and SAP as their main source. We are trying to sell WKC to make a catalog out of vast different data sources for them. The problem is Data Discovery can only do "shallow sync" of table from MSSQL. The tab...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Business term should be able to import by CSV file which encoding by SJIS.

When we import from sjis csv file to business term, Japanese character is garbled. We hope to CP4D support SJIS encoding CSV file to import business term. The reason why we need to use SJIS is that the default character set is SJIS on Japanese env...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

[Copy] Amazon S3 Connector

Problem Statement: As part of IIS 11.7.1 SP2 implementation activities, we tried setting up Amazon S3 connector for us to be able to scan the data files and import them into IGC. During the setup process and while working on the access requir...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

WKC needs to allow specification of access policies at the folder level within a data asset

a) We need to be able to set an access policy for a whole table that might be represented by multiple parquet files in a folder. b) We need to be able to set an access policy for all the files in a bucket.
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

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

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Primary Key and Relationship Analysis

Currently, through API CTC can only perform Primary Key and Relationship Key analyses for all assets in the enrichment area. We need an API through which we can select individual assets (within an enrichment area) for Primary Key and Relationship ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release