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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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Need functionality to Exclude Assets/schemas from MDI Scan by Name/Pattern

Need new feature/option that allows users to exclude specific data assets or tables from a Metadata Import (MDI) scan based on a naming convention or pattern. This would prevent the catalog from being populated with unnecessary assets and improve ...
28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Align Quality Score Visibility with User Permissions

Currently, a Catalog User role cannot access the Quality tab, since it is tied to permissions that restrict data visibility. However, the Quality Score is still displayed in the Overview tab. It would be valuable to analyze the possibility of hidi...
18 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Possibility to filter requests in the Task Inbox

Filtering capability based on Primary Category and Tag/classification, to be able to differentiate recipe cycles (tags) in different data domains (categories) and artifacts.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to link Governance Rules to Data Quality Rules from Governance Rule side

Currently in IKC the mapping between Governance Rule and Data Quality rule can only be done from Data Quality rule side. This would require edit right to Data Quality Rules for business users in production which I'm not too keen to grant. So it wo...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Enable Primary Key & Foreign Key Support for all connections Especially for GBQ connection

We request an Enhancement to support Primary key and foreign key relationships in GBQ connection types. Currently this functionality is unavailable in v5.1.1, impacting our ability to maintain data integrity and enforce relationships in our Data l...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Add filter & "bulk edit" options to the list of artifacts under a category

Our users work a lot based on a certain primary category - there can be hundreds of terms and rules under one category ("data asset") they're responsible for. For their way of working it would be natural to be able to filter (and also bulk edit/de...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

assign service id within a catalog as a collaborator

Customer is using IKC as service based on CP4D Saas (FRA, Europe). At the moment you cannot use / assign a service id within a catalog in IKC as “collaborator”. Customer uses the term “collaborator” as a synonym for technical user. Having the poss...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Create a native way to extract usage informations from IKC

Hello everyone! I'd like to suggest creating a native way to obtain IKC usage information. When I say usage information, I'm referring to data such as:- Which users accessed the tool on a given day?- What were the searches in the search bar?- Whic...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Request access to data from within Data Asset

Users need to be able to request access to the data from within the data asset page. All metadata is currently visible but there is no way for a user to request access to the data.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration