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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.

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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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 .
6 days 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...
7 days 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...
14 days 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 ...
26 days 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...
27 days 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-...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Display minor version on the About page

At present the About page on the Software Hub UI only shows major versions for example 5.3 instead of 5.3.x . Business users cannot validate the version number
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group) When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Minimize downtime during OCP upgrade

Introduce an officially supported, OpenShift upgrade pattern for Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) and watsonx.data deployments. This enhancement would allow OpenShift control‑plane and worker nodes to be upgraded while CPD platform components and services...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Future consideration