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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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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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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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A "OCP centric" DR solution

Intesa SanPaolo needs to organize periodically DR tests. These tests are conducted by creating OpenShift clusters in a isolate environment only when needed (once the DR test is completed, the clusters are deleted). Specifically, the client current...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Install CP4D using private registry in OCP with unqualified-search-registries configuration

If you are planning the installation of CP4D, but the customer has OCP configured with unqualified-search-registries (called also "image short names" and configured in image registry via containerRuntimeSearchRegistries). So, during installation, ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

CP4D Cartridge for ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise

Allow CP4D bi-directional access and connectivity to a full-fledged geographic information system (GIS) embedded as part of our data fabric and AI offerings. ESRI, who is the predominate GIS vendor, introduced a containerized flavor of their ArcGI...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

quick link for SSO

Quick link to choose the default SSO as login method. We avoid process of choosing the method (admin,LDAP or SSO) and clicking blue button "LogIn" to have automatic login via SSO.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Submitted

Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Allow customizing the alert email message (summary + description)

We send CP4D alerts by email and we would like to do a filtering by severity and component, maybe more variables. This allows us to prioritize our incident management and would be of great value.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review