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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cloud Pak for Data

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Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Online backup and restore to a different cluster using OADP and ODF

A full volume backup (not just snapshots) using OADP and ODF is only possible using an offline backup. The current offline backup solution results in several hours of downtime for our watsonx cluster. As platform usage continues to grow, this down...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review