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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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Prevent bulk csv load from creating drafts in case a draft already exists

At the moment "according to design" a user can bulk load CSV which automatically creates drafts, even though a draft would already exist. Such behaviour (having duplicate drafts) is not possible when editing in the UI, but for mysterious reasons t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Automate install using ACM

Automate the installation and configuration of IBM Cloud Pak for Data using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM). There is a git repo available that explains how this can be completed via policies and kustomize, but it fully supported via helm.R...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Automated resource management for CP4D via API and YAML (or equivalent) – for users, groups, projects entities

As the user numbers on the on prem CP4D and wx.ai clusters are scaling the client wants to be able to limit resources for the developers in an automated way via APIs defined by YAML or similar. Limiting resources is available as of today in a supp...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Test and validate CP4D, IKC, and Manta functionality on OCP-Virtualitzation

Verizon is evaluating alternatives to their virtualization technology (VMWare) and OCP-V is the main option they are considering. They would like to make sure that Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Knowledge Catalog will work reliably and with the same o...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Enhance email notifications for job completions by providing more detailed information and direct links to results.

Currently, users receive email notifications upon the completion of MDE or DQ rule jobs, but these notifications lack essential details and only include a link to the job log. To improve the user experience and facilitate quicker access to results...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration