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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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Search results: Watson Knowledge Catalog

Catalog asset export should not be limited to the UI "items per page" - or then you should allow way bigger maximum instead of 100

We have several 'registers' modelled as custom assets in the catalog. Anyone who wishes to export the register, be it application register or data asset register can not do it at one go, because the UI has max limit of 100 items, and the "export" ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Allow 'watching' of single terms/rules for changes

Our key users would like to know if certain terms/rules are edited by other people. For example: In our model we have high (NBT) and low level (CBT) terms, which are connected. Different organisations and persons are responsible for the categories...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Improve the search and filtering of the catalogs

Currently user feedback is that they can't use the search to get the assets they are interested in. IBM suggestion is to use global search, which does work better, but it is crude also. You should improve the search itself PLUS introduce filtering...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Introduce support for users to modify the target publish location for an MDI publishing job after it has been created.

Enable users to modify the target publish location of an existing MDI publishing job without recreating the job, improving operational flexibility and reducing administrative effort.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Rerunning MDE publish job from Job UI

We would like the ability to rerun an MDE publish job directly from the Job UI page. Currently, the play icon is disabled, preventing users from re-executing a previously completed publish job.In many situations, this capability would significantl...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Add lineage support for the IBM DB2 for z/OS connector

We request that IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) add support for scanning and generating lineage for connections created with the IBM DB2 for z/OS connector. Using the connector and a non-personal ID (NPID), we can successfully connect to DB2 for z/OS,...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Improve the resilience, scalability, observability, and self-recovery of the IKC internal messaging layer, including reassessment of RabbitMQ for high-volume Metadata Enrichment workloads.

IBM Knowledge Catalog uses RabbitMQ as part of its internal asynchronous processing architecture. In large Metadata Enrichment environments, messaging availability and consumption rates can become critical dependencies for the overall stability of...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Add administrative controls to restrict DataStage and Spark visibility and usage when they are installed only as supporting services for IKC Data Quality.

Feature Request Add administrative controls to restrict DataStage and Spark visibility and usage when they are installed only as supporting services for IKC Data Quality. Problem Statement The installation of IKC Data Quality requires DataStage an...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review