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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.

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

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OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly in the ticket TS017184034. What we ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Preserve and/or restore SSO configuration during an upgrade

Update : 05/17 Being Tracked here ICPD-1535 : Target v5.1 Bank of America experienced a problem during an upgrade of their platform where they lost the SSO configuration. It took two weeks to diagnose and fix the problem. See support case: TS01527...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Info report about users who have not logged in for x days (configurable)

Admin should be able to login and generate a report about users who were given access but haven't logged onto the platform for 30 days (or 60 or 90 days).
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Need API-driven repository sync against Git providers

Need version control - driven sync against CP4D files and assets
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review