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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

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...
15 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 ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Activity log should also show the users role in addition to their name

For audit purposes the activity log should show what was the role of the person when they published (or performed any other registered activity). It is possible they could have several roles which all would allow them to perform the said action, a...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Activity log should retain persons name (and ID) even after that persons has left the company

Activity log is used for audit purposes. At the moment if a user has left the company, then activity log will show "deactivated user" instead of the name. This breaks the audit trail. While improving this you should also add unique identifier for ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

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

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Capability of assigning artifacts and related items to the catalog is missing from Watsonx Data Intelligence MCP

The watsonx-data-intelligence-mcp-server currently does not provide a tool to perform governance actions such as assigning business terms or other governance artifacts to catalog assets. This enhancement proposes adding MCP capabilities that enabl...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Deleting the data Flows after rule execution

This idea is derived from CPDIDEAS-I-2537 specific for deleting the data flows with rule execution (as per IBM request). IBM handling the rules execution flows deletion up to some extend. But still not a full proof solution. #Flows not deleting fo...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration