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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


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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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Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Integration of IBM S/W Hub with ServiceNow

Hi, The way S/W Hub alerts are forwarded to SMTP/SNMP/Slack, can those be also integrated with ServiceNow to raise an Incident based on severity of alert? Thanks, Sanjay
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Support for CyberArk agentless password retrieval / WCS protocol

Today in CP4D we support CyberArk AAM - Citi is asking us to support CyberArk WCS protocol as that is their standard.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Enhance monitoring within cloud pak for data on resources used by users

Today, a customer can monitor pods in cloud pak for data. But it is difficult to find what user is using a lot of resources. It requires investigation. The customer has created a script that lists watson Studio Jupyter, spark rstudio usage by pods...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Customize the grpc route

IBM gives us the option of customizing the cpd route: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=platform-modifying-route But not the grpc-cpd route. Can you set up a procedure to have the same possibility?
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review