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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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Automate install using ACM

Automate the installation and configuration of IBM Cloud Pak for Data using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM). There is a git repo available that explains how this can be completed via policies and kustomize, but it fully supported via helm.R...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Incorporate Certificate Authority (expiration) into RedHat Cert Manager

CA issue(resulted in support case). In the case, it was the CA that expired. The customer has paid-for CAs, as well as the product self-signed. Dev mentioned ways to incorporate external cert managers into RedHat CertManager: Here are the procedur...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Create explanatory documentation or announcements about the CP4D shift to knative eventing

In recent versions, IBM have moved away from the internal IBM Events Operator, to the open source knative-eventing. This has technical ramifications, which are minor. But customers should be given an explanation of this, and be forewarned that the...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability. IBM case #TS018324375 has been opened for this as well.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Planned for future release

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Remove need for cross-namespace permissions in OLM by providing raw YAML files

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirments. In order to do that, we must remove any component that requires cross-namespace pe...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Not under consideration

Ability to install and run using an internal private registry

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment. In order to that, we need to be able to use our own internal private registry that is not reliant on OpenShift or OLM (see other i...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Not under consideration

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

day of the week for time based resource plan

As our workload requirement is vastly different between weekday and weekend. it will be great if Symphony supports different time based resource plan according to the day of the week. even better if IBM could expose rest API for us to alter resour...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Functionality already exists