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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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

Improve Spark application log retrieval performance and navigation in IBM Software Hub to reduce delays and enhance usability

Currently, there are significant delays when trying to locate Spark application logs through the IBM Software Hub file browser interface, and the navigation experience is severely limited. This impacts developer productivity and troubleshooting ef...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Platform Administration - Restrict local user creation through API

Administrators need a platform-level control to restrict or prevent local user creation through API or CLI tooling when the user is intended to be managed by a configured SAML identity provider. While testing CPDCTL functionality, it was identifie...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - other - Option to restrict API usage access

While we are setting up our environment with SSO meaning users cannot use API with username/password they can still generate the API key. We would like to have role based allow access to not specifically generate the API key but to actually authen...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - secrets/vault - separate roles to access secrets and create secrets

Secrets role management should have two separate additional functionalities: one where we just allow users to use/access secrets that are shared with them second where users are allowed to create/manage/delete secrets
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Add UI Support to View CPD and Identity Provider Group Members

Cloud Pak for Data administrators need a UI-based capability to view group membership for both CPD groups and external identity provider groups, such as Azure Entra ID groups. Currently, administrators do not have a convenient way in the CPD UI to...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

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.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Planned for future release

Enable namespace‑scoped image pull secrets for IBM Licensing

Our organization must avoid using cluster‑wide (global) image pull secrets and instead rely exclusively on namespace‑scoped image pull secrets, in line with our internal security policies. While most Cloud Pak for Data components now support this ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Central location for cpd-cli-workspace directory and logging of the cpd-cli

When running the cpd-cli command a "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created in the current working directory. Looking for an environmental variable that can be used to define where the "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created when running the cpd-...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

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...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Not under consideration