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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 Platform

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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.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Installation procedure without "cloudctl" command nor GitHub

For security reasons, we would like to be able to install CP4D and the add-ons : without having to download anything from GitHub (we would prefer to download everything from the IBM container image registry "cp.icr.io" or from an IBM RPM package r...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Planned for future release

Automatic Montoring / Altering via SNMP

We miss a feature to send alerting SNMP traps about WSL alerts (see https://content-dsxlocal.mybluemix.net/docs/content/SSAS34_current/local/alerts.html) Currently only mail to administrators works. This is not very well integration into our comp...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

AWS EFS CSI Driver support

We had built CP4D env on AWS. Once v4.0 release, AWS EFS is not supported. Even other cloud service's NFS storages are still supported. We heard it caused by technical limitation of EFS with NFS protocol, and CSI(Container Storage Interface) has ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Security Settings for Services based on User Groups and/or LDAP

Administering users can be quite hard when every single user must be set manually. Especially in large environments. In CP4D user groups can not be used to control access to services like Cognos, PA, Discovery and so on. It would be lot easier, if...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

No logging available for troublehsooting

With lot of excitements, we deployed CP4D on Openshift on-premise. Unfortunately we are uncovering issues one by one. One of key issue is troubleshooting. Example when discovery crawl shows no document, there is no information about why no documen...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Add the feature for user behavior monitoring and statistics

From customers' feedback, it is expected to have a feature to understand the functions users using for operation and performance management. Therefore, a user behavior tracking function and statistics, like Google Analytics, will be helpful.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Private topology to enable non OCP admins to perform admin tasks on CP4D clusters

Customer requires strict separation from OCP admin and CP4D admins. cross-tenant ‘cluster level’ components — like the license service, cpd-scheduler and cert manager (RH or CPFS’s) would need a cluster admin to manage Each CP4D tenant would have ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release