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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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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.

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Enhance CP4D Workflow Approvals with API-Based Validation and External Approval Integrations

Idea Description It would be useful if IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Data Intelligence Platform workflows could be extended beyond standard manual approval steps to support configurable validation and integration points. For example, during an appr...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Test certificates are created in namespace "cert-manager", not in the project namespace during installation

During the Cloud Pak for Data installation / upgrade the cert-manager is checked by creating certificates.cert-manager.io k8s objects in the cert-manager namespace. The cert-manager is a namespace, managed by the RedHat cert-manager Operator, so t...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Need an API to "retrieve" API key only without revoking the old one

As per this case TS022084372, we have got to know like there is no API exist currently to "retrieve" API key only without revoking the old one for LDAP/SAML user profiles. we need this API to troubleshoot/debug profiles issues over tenant scripts .
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Delegated project access management for platform user administrators

Allow a user who holds the platform "Manage users" permission (i.e. can create users, assign them to user groups, and assign platform roles) to also manage collaborator access on existing projects — adding/removing project collaborators and assign...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Ability to choose which version of wx.gov and wx.ai to install using the Azure Marketplace - BYOL

EY is a big customer of IBM watsonx.gov and IBM watsonx.ai the Azure ARO platform. They are using the Azure Marketplace - BYOL method to deploy both wx.gov and wx.ai on ARO. Currently, the latest GA version of the products along with their latest ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Provide error message when one of LDAP servers is not responding during login to CPD

As shown in known issue, when LDAP is not responding, our CPD login will simply hang with a blank screen. There should be some error or hints pointing out this is related to LDAP. Or fall back to other functional LDAP instead of hang with blank sc...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Make is_sharing_properties configurable for both governed and non-governed catalogs

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D 5.3.1), the is_sharing_properties setting controls whether business metadata is shared across catalogs when identical data assets are published in multiple catalogs. Currently: This setting is editable only for non-...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

User bulk sync cron job need to exclude hand-picked LDAP group(s)

This idea is an extension of CPDIDEAS-I-2297. Now IBM delivered upfront user bulk sync available via cron job. Organization has few enterprise group(s) using for all users read access and integrated in CP4D IDP configuration. Need to exclude those...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted