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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.

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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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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 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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 conducted.

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 17 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to save 'canvas' views/releationships in 'Relationship explorer' for references and team collaboration.

Once a 'Relationship Explorer' canvas is created (mapped out), it would be very beneficial to have the ability to save this 'cavnas' view add other collaborators to this view. I know we already have a share option, however this feature is a point ...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

User activity logs on Cloudpak for Data Platform.

There is no logs of user activity on the platform. It would be great to have a user friendly page on the platform, where admin can just to look and get the details of user activity on the platform. Currently, i use zen-audit logs from cmd line to ...
8 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Add ability to specify no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings

Currently, there is no easy way to add no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy-settings It requires modifying a proxy-envs.json and...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release