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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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...
3 months 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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Category Import Summary Does Not Indicate Rejected Governance Artifacts

During category import, the process may complete successfully even when some governance artifacts (e.g., Data Classes) are skipped or rejected. While these issues may be recorded in the log file, the import summary provides no clear indication tha...
14 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Provide MDE Governance Change Summary Report for Pre-Publish Review

Provide a UI-based report that compares metadata before and after an MDE run and summarizes all changes made to assets and columns. The report should include counts of governance and data quality attributes that were assigned, modified, suggested,...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Planned for future release

Audit log should action originating IP

Having originating IP in shipped Audit logs is considered a main functionality, this addresses the security gap where security team cannot identify where this request is initiated from? who is taking actions? is it someone who has access to take a...
6 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 ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

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