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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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Collaboration record for Governance Artifacts

workflows for governance artifacts (terms, data classes, etc.) have optional or required comment boxes for collaborators on the artifacts to add to. This is required if an approval is rejected in a workflow. Those comments do not appear to the req...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Track changes made to Data Quality Rules

AEP is looking to track changes made to Data Quality rules. Data stewards are not aware of the changes being made to Data Quality rules, and they are stepping over each other's work as there is no way to track changes made to Data Quality rules. A...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Support Bulk Selection and Import/Export for Data Rule and Quality Rule

数据规则支持多选然后批量运行,质量规则支持批量的编辑、导入、导出。(Data rules support bulk selection and run, and quality rules support bulk editing, importing, and exporting.)
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Input Japanese language in the search bar on the catalog

>Idea Details: Normally, when Japanese people input "Kanji", input "Hiragana" at first with not confirmed status, after that convert it to "Kanji" using SPACE key. At last press ENTER key, the conversion is confirmed. <Steps> 1. in...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Is a defect

Creation of Business Terms from Cognos Assets

It should be possible to create business terms based on a imported data model or Cognos report artefacts to speed up the process of developing a business glossar. As the documentation of Cognos Reports/key figures, dimensions is one of the use cas...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Bulk metadata import and bulk business term and data class update in the WKC UI

Stewards and WKC Admins need the ability to bulk update business and technical metadata information, e.g. descriptions and names, from a UI using a CSV file. Should be able to use a CSV file specifying the category and artifact name (not the guid)...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration