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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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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:


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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,


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  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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Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Enable non-admins to edit global color palettes

In the current versions of Cognos Analytics it is only possible for system admins to create, alter or delete global color palettes. Creating a capability would give power users the ability to edit the color palettes used in their dashboards withou...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

Allow customizing the alert email message (summary + description)

We send CP4D alerts by email and we would like to do a filtering by severity and component, maybe more variables. This allows us to prioritize our incident management and would be of great value.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Introduction of an overall view of all the jobs running

As an CP4D administrator I need the ability to see the jobs that are running (projects, spaces, spark (rest api jobs) etc.) where the actual resources are displayed. In this job overview I want the possibility to get logs, stop or start the jobs e...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

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

Add compatibility with CSS post-processing to custom visualizations

Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. Many modern UI libraries (such as Material-UI and...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

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

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