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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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Search results: Knowledge Catalog

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Properly support MSSQL in Data Discovery

Bank of Thailand have Oracle, Hive, MSSQL, and SAP as their main source. We are trying to sell WKC to make a catalog out of vast different data sources for them. The problem is Data Discovery can only do "shallow sync" of table from MSSQL. The tab...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

[Copy] Amazon S3 Connector

Problem Statement: As part of IIS 11.7.1 SP2 implementation activities, we tried setting up Amazon S3 connector for us to be able to scan the data files and import them into IGC. During the setup process and while working on the access requirem...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

US-Telco - need GDP & WKC Data Protection for multi-node database environments

This RFE is for the "strategic/longterm" option for an optimized solution w. CP4D and GDP. Other RFEs will be opened against CP4D/GDP to track other requirements/ solutions For large US Telco company integration GDP and WKC for remote PDP - this w...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Metadata import results

Currently, running a metadata import will result in adding new assets, updating the assets or removing them. While the first 2 actions are reflected in the catalog, if the assets are published there, for removed assets no action is taken. We would...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Require UI-based method for bulk data enrichment at scale

Review all columns at once for business terms and data classes instead of going column by column: - When MDE completed, customer wanted to update terms and data classes as simple as editing in excel. Currently you have to click for term assignment...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Quality output results in Google BigQuery

Customer needs to be able to store DQ output results into Google BigQuery and it is not part of IBM supported output databases.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to see the SQL used in creating the 'View'(Data Asset) as part of View metadata.

Customer needs to see the query (SQL) used in creating a View from one or more tables as part of the View's Metadata in the Catalog.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Need filters for tables, Views and Connections while displaying Search results

Competitive functionality - Currently when a search is performed, the assets like Tables, Views, Connections are bucketed under 'Data' filter option on the left pane. The customer needsw to have separate filters for Tables, Views and Connections s...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Ability to add custom attributes to reference data

I have a customer BCBS of MN who would like to create custom fields for reference data. This will allow them to store more items than the standard out of the box fields.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration