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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Customize the grpc route

IBM gives us the option of customizing the cpd route: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=platform-modifying-route But not the grpc-cpd route. Can you set up a procedure to have the same possibility?
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Need RUN button enabled for pipelines created in trail job scenarios as well

This idea is to reference TS019010346 . Currently Run feature in Pipelines enabled for jobs and not for trail jobs scenario. when developers try to run the trail job with different set of parameters , this run button enabled feature helps signific...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

CLI to EFS Storage Volumes for Development and Deployment

This is request to have the CLI to access the storage volumes to develop and modify the UNIX Scripts or other files which will be accessed by CP4D. Currently, all the development of the scripts is happening on local unix servers and uploading the ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Login prompt option is not visible when we are using OIDC/SAML provider

When logging in using an OIDC provider, username and password fields in the UI are not visible to facilitate login for technical users. Generally for the personal login, OIDC should just login without prompting username and password. But we need t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Download cpdctl through IBM container registry

We've seen that a useful binary for cloudpak: oc-ibm_pak is distributed via your container registry.Would it be possible to do the same for the cpdctl binary? Info: https://github.com/IBM/ibm-pak Download from IBM container registry This system wo...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review