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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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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...
about 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

CSV format should cover all properties of Business Glossary to import them outside of catalog in CP4D V2.5 or later.

CP4D V2.1 allows Data Steward to import categories and business terms by using not only CSV format but also XML/XMI outside of catalog. XML/XMI format covers all properties of business glossary. - Import and export file formathttps://www.ibm.com/s...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Connect to Azure DataBricks

Currently, Watson Knowledge Center does not support connection to Azure DataBricks. Please include that in further releases.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Manual assignment of business glossary against technical meta by key business term searching should be assisted by supporting category search function.

After asset discovery processing, user can check whether some business glossary are assigned against technical metas automatically. In addition, user can add manual assignment of additional business glossary against technical metas. In this situat...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Search result to be highlighted

Problem statement/pain point: Search with search bar in the main panel, return relevant asset list. But search does not provide information on where the search term hit the asset or the asset's metadata(e.g.asset name, description…). No workarou...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to strea...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Enable selection display or hide data item in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not select which items should be shown or hidden in table view. For exam...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Show description in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not see other information about detail of the assets(such as description...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release