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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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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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...
about 1 month 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 ...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support Cloud Pak for Data and Watsonx.data on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

The customer is running Watsonx.data and Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) on Red Hat OpenShift are increasingly looking for ways to optimize infrastructure and licensing costs. One emerging architectural approach is to deploy OpenShift on top of Red Hat ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

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

Proposal for a Proactive Platform Monitoring and Health Check System

We are currently encountering significant issues during our backup executions. We face database inconsistencies and version mismatches in the cpbr scripts, among other errors. Because these problems are only discovered during the backup process it...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support Request: Integration of cpd-cli Backup and Restore with Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)

To meet a critical customer requirement, we are seeking support for the integration of the cpd-cli backup and restore functionality with the Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), which is the customer’s homologated enterprise backup sol...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

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...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Future consideration