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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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Ability to automate data quality rules against critical data elements

Demonstrate the ability to automate data quality rules against critical data elements (From the data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters such as: source system, environment, database, schema, table(s), column(s), data domain(s), sub...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Data Quality - Profiling, Notification capability for data profiling/quality assessment

As a Data Steward, I need following: Upon data profiling/quality assessment execution notification sent to end users as per Notification List
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Workflow Management

Data quality resolution process (e.g. Log Issue, Root Cause Codes/Description, Data Root Cause Codes/Description, Data Resolution Codes/Description, Issue Notification Process including closure notification)
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Applied Data Valuation - Who is accessing sensitive data from the catalog.

Security requirement: track who is using sensitive data, how frequently that data is being pulled from the data catalog, and where the data is going
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Update Business Terms in Catalog

If a business term name is updated, the catalog asset linked to the original business term should also reflect the new name. Ex: first draft business term (published): Medical Record Number, linked to 6 data assets in the Default catalog. second d...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Column Nullability is not detected from the source and visible on the UI

When MDI/MDE performed connecting to the source - it is expected that if the column is Nullable at the source (defined in the DDL) then the MDE should capture and reflect the column as Nullabile in the UI.
about 1 year 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

Custom attribute at field level

To be able to create a Custom property and assign it at the Field Level
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Catalog Notifications - Low rated Asset

A mechanism for generating notifications when a catalog asset is given a lot rating. I.e. A collaborator in the catalog has found an asset that was poorly populate, had low DQ scores, formatting errors, etc. Using the comments and star ratings the...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Term Assignment Notification in Metadata Enrichment and Catalog Edit

During Metadata Enrichment or in catalog edit when a business artifact (terms, data classes...) are assigned or changed, the steward(s) or WKC administrators for those artifacts need to be notified of the use of the artifact. This will help keep t...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered