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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.

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User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

A utility to compare database tables between production and replica databases for NRS v3

A utility to compare database tables between production and replica instances. We run NRS 3.x and early implementations were very unreliable with silent failures. nzdr does not give any information on state of the tables in the replica. We develop...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Include special characters in password to login to Data Virtualization

To login to Data Virtualization, the password of the user have characters as "ñ", we are in Spain and our policies rotates the passwords each period and contains this character sometimes. We don't have problems to login another platforms with this...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...

Failing of flapping SFP interfaces

System doesn't take any action when an interfaces keeps flapping and has a huge error count for packets. Those errors have significant impact on performance and automatic failing of components causing issues is required.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

LDAP with SSO combining multiple ID field types #cpfieldcsm #cpfield

Bank of America uses LDAP with SSO. They were trying to use user search field as mail, but could not. The support case tech SME responded: Anytime an ID is used, you can not combine multiple ids as it will not serve the purpose. By default it uses...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Increase NRS backup size limit

Current NRS backup limit is about 2TB, this is kind small to us as we had NRS failures because the backup size exceeds the limit A larger NRS backup size can help to avoid nrs failures.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted