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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

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Custom property restriction by Categories that applies to Categories

There are multiple cases where we have a need to restrict Category Custom properties to be shown/not shown
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom property restrictions by Classifications

There are some cases where Classification will require some custom properties to be shown or not for the artifacts
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

Test and validate CP4D, IKC, and Manta functionality on OCP-Virtualitzation

Verizon is evaluating alternatives to their virtualization technology (VMWare) and OCP-V is the main option they are considering. They would like to make sure that Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Knowledge Catalog will work reliably and with the same o...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Data Protection Rules: support combination of rules to filter data

Defining more complex and sequential rules is essential to comply with business access rules in larger businesses w/o having to define hundreds of rules. Given is a table with regions "A" and "B" and a user community getting access to either A or ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to save 'canvas' views/releationships in 'Relationship explorer' for references and team collaboration.

Once a 'Relationship Explorer' canvas is created (mapped out), it would be very beneficial to have the ability to save this 'cavnas' view add other collaborators to this view. I know we already have a share option, however this feature is a point ...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review