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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.

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JDBC/ODBC Interface for BI Tools and integration with 3rd party software

Many customers use BI tools like Power BI, Tableau etc. They ask for JDBC/ODBC interface so they could access data products and data asset's defined in our data intelligence platform using tools of their choice. I've got statements from several cu...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Add a section that displays all drafts, regardless of the type of artifact.

The customer is requesting this functionality, which was included in previous versions of CP4 Data.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Publish the results from a project, a discovery process, or an enrichment process in CP4D IBM Knowledge Catalog to multiple catalogs at the same time

Because of the way the client wants to use IKC, they need to do multiple publications of different IKC objects in multiple catalogs in one operation.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Analyse and add Quebec law 25 “Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector” to the Knowledge accelerator standards

Customer would like IBM to review and add to the list of Knowledge Accelerators standards the Quebec law 25 “Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector” : https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/english In french: "Loi 25" Afte...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Analyse and add Canada "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" to the list of supported standards for IKC Knowledge accelerators

Customer would like IBM to review and add to the list of Knowledge Accelerators standards the "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" of Canada. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/p-8.6/ in the list of supported standa...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Support to use User Session and LDAP Fields as parameter in the Where field of Data Protection Rule Filter Rows option.

We have a big client testing Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, Watson Query to be their data platform. One important use case is use the protection rule feature > filter rows option in a Where Condition field allows to pass user session or LDAP fields a...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable

All users pre-defined user group should be configurable. For example IKC gives All users user group pre-defined Category role 'Viewer'. We would like to all users to see drafts which means that we would like to define which category role All users...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Add connection type and server in catalog filter

When we filter assets in the catalog, besides the source, add the option of filtering by connection type (e.g. Db2, Teradata, etc.) and by server.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Support couchbase as a source for data catalog and lineage

Adding couchbase as an additional connector allows more clients to find it easy to make a switch to using watsonx.data intelligence for their data governance and lineage needs.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration