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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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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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Custom Auth/Authz layer support

US Federal Government customer has their own custom authorization layer for applications. Internally they support an ABAC based infrastructure. Therefore they have a more complex authorization layer than standard roles/groups. Need to have the abi...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists

Integration of WebServer logs into Audit Logging

Web server logs or equivalent HTTP access logs are not found in CP4D Audit output. ATTRIBUTES - At a minimum, the required security audit logging attributes must include: a. The identity of the account accessing the system, (e.g.,Standard accounts...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Functionality already exists

Selectable storage class for Storage Volumes

Cloudpak 4 Data in 3.5+ allows users to create (user) storage volumes from the UI. This feature has three options, one is 'external NFS'. This request is only applicable for this alternative. Technically this creates a PV and a matching PVC on the...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Platform management UI health check enhancements

Situation: Currently there is no single holistic UI/command to validate the overall health of CPD and installed cartridges' /modules. Pain Point: some functionality or dependencies could be missing and users, application support would not know and...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Functionality already exists

Mounting Shared drives with restrictive permissions

A way to mount shared drives (CIFS shares) in a capacity that utilises each users existing permissions on the remote share. Currently the way that we this is set up for CP4D (3.0.1) is utilising defined account credentials that are stored in a sec...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Enable nested AD groups in LDAP Groups

Enable LADP feature that allows the use of nested AD groups. Most all of users are members of nested groups. LDAP groups are almost useless for us without the feature.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Workflow notification list strictly include assignees only

Workflow notification list strictly include assignees only
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Functionality already exists

Configure review as one of workflow required steps

Configure review step as one of workflow required steps
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists