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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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Support Secure Gateway access to AWS S3 from Watson Studio (WKC, Refinery)

With Multi Cloud environments with AWS, S3 is "VPC"ed and usually does not allow to public access. To make use of WKC (Metadata) /Refinery (Actual Data) capabilities, Secure Gateway support to ISOCS Cluster which is "VPC"ed from IBM Cloud is requi...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Provide the Catalog Owner the ability to approve all assets to be published by federated administrators.

To facilitate sharing of content across enterprise organizations multiple teams will need the ability to publish assets. To ensure these assets meet the guidelines of the Catalog Owner and the organizations data policy there need to be oversight /...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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.
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Share WKC assets to external account projects

An enterprise wants to share a set of assets among a set of collaborator companies. As a the main company CDO I alllow collaborators to use my data in a policy enabled catalog, but I want each collaborator pays for its compute usage, generate new ...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

GDPR Support for Data Catalog

We need an additional metadata field for GDPR which includes the source country for the data. It would be valuable if this field could be automatically generated using the IP address of the source data (the country where the IP address is located)...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Configurable Data Classification Meta Data Field

My clients have requested a data classification field for a data asset which has a configurable domain of values. For example, an administrator for a customer can define this field to have Public, Confidential, Highly Confidential and Restricted (...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Local or desktop version

Hi Ronald, We have had numerous requests from customers to share the IBM roadmap for Data Connect / Data Refinery on private cloud / on premises ( i.e. self service data shaping tooling for on prem deployment) - and I have thus far not been able t...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 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

automatically send newly created content from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support to automatically send newly created content from a data source since the last time data was sent and ingested into Discovery. Currently the data platform has no mechanism for identifying new content since...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release