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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Dremio Official Support Need

There is a connector for dremio in the product. We can connect and run metadata enrichment, but we cannot perform other actions such as data quality. When we researched, we learned that this is not officially supported. With this being officially ...
26 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

IKC reporting to Google Big Query

Please add Google Big Query as an option for IKC reporting in addition to the existing DB2, Oracle, and PostGres options.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Show column type in PDM (physical data model) list

Have the column type information when showing the physical data model in the catalog.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

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...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Have the Governance Artifacts editor pages (Terms/Categories) be customizable (delete/hide fields not filled/needed)

Although the Glossary and Category pages serve many purposes for the customers governance endevour oftentimes there is "too much". Many fields will never get touched/used by a customer and it would be nice if one could "get rid" of them (hidding? ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to add multiple users as asset owners

A large Federal customer requests the ability to add multiple users as Asset Owners
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support for SQL Server in IKC reporting capabilities

Per this page in our docs, IKC currently only supports Oracle, Db2, Postgres for storing the reports. A large Federal customer has a significant need to leverage an existing data store in SQL Server for their governance reporting.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review