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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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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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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

DB2 Connection mixed Settings when using vault

A the moment I have to set all parameters into a vault, if I choose "Use secrets from a vault". This is some sort of stupid, because in my opinion parameters like applicationname or client hostname have nothing todo with a secret. Unfortunately he...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Unconsolidated Permissions

Problem: I expected to have all permissions at the "Access-control" Tab. Unfortunately it is not like this. As I know by today there are also permissions to be set at the "Data>Connectivity" Tab and I don't know where else there are. This makes...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Toggle FIPS compliance off at the CPD platform level

Toggle FIPS compliance off at the CPD platform level
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to expand columns in UI screens

Allow for custom viewing of data presented. Every table that is shown within the ui, service not exclusive
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Ability to search LM Identity Provider Groups (AD Groups).

Ability to search Identity Provider Groups (AD Groups) - Currently cannot easily see which AD groups map to CP4D Groups in Access Control in platform.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

The ability to create custom URLs that retrieves data from AIOps to be used in the custom cards

When creating new custom cards with a dynamic set of data you use the data_url attribute to provide the custom card with a URL that retrieves data from AIOps components (Alerts, Incedints, Resource management, etc..) and can't use external URL for...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review