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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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Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Nested AD groups in Cloud Pak for Data Platform

Support for nested AD groups needed at the CP4D Platform level. Cloud Pak for Data cannot recognize users in nested AD groups, need the ability to do so.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

cpd-cli manage checking token auth for http 401 status before running other command

As referenced by support ( https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/authentication/configuring-internal-oauth.html#oa... ), tokens lasts for 24 hours, users usually do not know when is this expirity counting from. When running commands t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Remove Cluster Admin Role from the installation/upgrade/runtime of shared cluster components (License Manager, Certificate Manager)

In banking environments, roles are clearly segregated between teams (e.g., Infrastructure team, Application team). For day-to-day operations and application upgrades, the Application team should not require Cluster Admin privileges, as the respons...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

When deleting an external connection to an NFS share, the pvc is not deleted in OpenShift

In cloud pak for data 4.8 a customer can create an external connection to an nfs share. When this connection is created a pvc is created. When this connection is deleted, the connection is deleted from CP4D, but not deleted in openShift. It is exp...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

Devops pipeline in CP4D - automated deployment to next environment

Our team manages over 300 developers working on various projects in CP4D, utilizing a diverse array of assets. Due to ITSS requirements, it's essential to maintain a clear separation of duties between developers who implement solutions and the ope...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Request ability to add Classification banner

Many Federal customers require the ability follow Federal Classification guidance in support of Classified deployments. In closed/classified environments, web services are required to denote the highest possible classification on an appropriately-...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Needs more information

Being able to change the GUI language directly from the GUI

Currently Cloud Pak for Data uses the preferred language of the browser to choose the language of the User Interface. Several customers in Spain have shown dissatisfaction with the Spanish or Portuguese translation as it uses words that are not co...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review