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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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

CP4D add support for ImageSetConfiguration

The client has requested to use oc-mirror to get the image listing as well as mirror the images as part of their Cyber Security Scanning requirements.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Provide unified UI for configuring and running CP4D backup/restore

The current process for the backup/restore of CP4D is complex and requires a number of steps that are needed for setting up the backup/restore. Any of these steps can go wrong. Just for the initial setup, it took multiple working sessions between ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

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

Multi Factor Authentication for all watsonx products

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11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Similar to Unix/Linux CLI to access Storage Volumes on CP4D

Currently on on-prem environment, We use Unix environment to place all the DataStage supporting files and we perform multiple actions on the files, using Unix commands like AWK / SED / CHMOD / Housekeeping Script Creation etc., . As we moving to C...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Uploading images using OLM Utilities to an ECR image in AWS fails due to rate limiting defaults. We need a method to reduce API calls to slow image uploads

Uploading images using OLM Utilities to an ECR image in AWS fails due to rate limiting defaults. We need a method to reduce API calls to slow image uploads. Can we add a flag to slow the number of concurrent image uploads to ensure we don't exceed...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Expand OLM Utility to include private image registry that is usable as image mirror.

Eases software installation process and makes for a better user experience.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Support Elasticsearch SIEM for audit events

We use Elasticsearch for SIEM. As confirmed by the support: "At this time, Elasticsearch is not an officially supported SIEM sink for zen-audit. The primary supported outputs are Splunk HEC and syslog. The inclusion of the Elasticsearch plugin in ...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review