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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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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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Add data discovery based on semantic relationships (Glossary Terms and other related terms/assets) not just based on user profile

Provide a data consumer (data scientist, business user, data analyst) an assisted and intelligent way to explore data based on existing relationships between assets (hierarchical relationships, synonyms and has types). Present the data consumer w...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Provide convenient way for user to track status of requested notifications

*** Idea originated from Cheryl *** Currently in the PDT feature, since download or preview of PDT asset can take a long time, user has option to click on "Notify Me" button to be sent a notification when the download or preview is ready. The use...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Classifiers for Data Catalog supporting Nordic Languages

Nordic customers have other patterns for zip codes, soctal security numbers etc. Currently 163 classifiers are supported for ingesting data into the Catalog. However, most of the classifiers are for the North American market, and will not match a ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

GDPR Support for Data Catalog

We need an additional metadata field for GDPR which includes the source country for the data. It would be valuable if this field could be automatically generated using the IP address of the source data (the country where the IP address is located)...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

'Watson Data Platform' URL in collaborators popup help gives a 404

Steps to recreate: 1. Create or bring up an existing data catalog. 2. Switch to the access control tab 3. Click Add Collaborator 4. Click the i with the circle around it beside the "Having trouble adding collaborators?" text. 5. In the popup hel...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

allow schema refresh for data assets in the UI

While testing ibmwdp, I ran the scenario: 1. Create a new project 2. Add a connection to the project for my cloudant database 3. Add a 'connected data" asset to my project, using my cloudant database connection. 4. Initially, the cloudant database...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Support a WDP (or WDP Catalog) connection type that can be consumed by 3rd party tools

We are building WDP Business Metrics Dashboard and wish to use WDP to manage the large number of data sources through the data catalog. However, to completely build this dashboard, we are require to use 3rd party tools in conjunction with WDP. The...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Local or desktop version

Hi Ronald, We have had numerous requests from customers to share the IBM roadmap for Data Connect / Data Refinery on private cloud / on premises ( i.e. self service data shaping tooling for on prem deployment) - and I have thus far not been able t...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

support exporting the Access Control Link(ACL) associated with all content sent from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support for exporting the ACLs associated with all content sent from a data source. Providing this information is critical to ensuring end users of a Discovery application have permissions/access only to the cont...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

support custom object types from data sources

The data platform needs to provide support for custom data types/objects defined by end users of various data sources, such as salesforce. Data from custom data types/objects needs to be exposed and selectable just as the default data types since ...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered