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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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  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: Knowledge Catalog

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User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to compare profile runs and identify trends over time

Demonstrate the ability to identify data quality assessment's trends over time
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to showcase business lineage for capturing policies, stakeholders, data quality dimensions and corresponding scores, and more

Ability to showcase business lineage for capturing policies, stakeholders, data quality dimensions and corresponding scores, and more - DP: with exact names of servers and server ports via which the data flow occurs
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

OOTB capabilities to support a business-friendly UI for documenting data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc.  

Demonstrate the OOTB features to handle: documentation of data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc. 
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support automated data certification (e.g. gold, silver, bronze)

Automated process for data certification, based on data profiling/quality assessment (Data Certification – based on data profiling/quality result and standards update metadata with proper certification rank)
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Ability to automate data quality rules against critical data elements

Demonstrate the ability to automate data quality rules against critical data elements (From the data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters such as: source system, environment, database, schema, table(s), column(s), data domain(s), sub...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Automate inventory of purposes through data consumer requests and ability to manually enter use cases

Inventory of Purposes/Uses – ability to track the various purposes for which we collect information and capture consents; need to have an inventory of recorded purposes.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Workflow for data protection rules

Track creation of a new use for a PII (e.g., health information - PIH) and create a new consent for this purpose automatically through workflow
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability of users to opt-out of specific purposes/uses of their data and ability of business to respect those choices with audit logs for confirmation

Demonstrate the ability for users to successfully view, update, opt in/out, or seek information regarding the personal information that is in the control and care of CTC for analytic use cases.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration