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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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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Backup Utility POD image

Hello, At present a CP4D admin ( Namespace Admin) needs to install and run CPD-CLI on a Virtual machine/Laptop in-order for his/her to run the OADP back-up. In an Enterprise world, this doesn't provide best Operation efficiency as there would be m...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0

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

Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under 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 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Restrict access to API Functionality

Update 03/28/2024 Disable API Keys at platform level. - Low effort. - 5.0.x The ability of enabling api keys for certain users. - Medium effort The ability of setting up an expiration date. - High effort Hello, We have raised ticket number TS01362...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Forward CP4D Job logs to OpenShift supported log collector and forward it to an external log store

Customer would like to collect all Job/Run logs generated by Watson Notebook /Pipeline services , and forward it to an external central log store facilities . Currently they have configured OpenShift Cluster Logging operator (CLO) to collect all t...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Needs more information

Sliding window for the monitoring page resource usage

Currently, monitoring ages do not contain a sliding window for the resources data usage.There is available last 12h, last 24h, last 7 days and "all data available".It would be very useful to be able to search a specific time range.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Make version identification easier

At the present time, there's no way to get on CP4D interface CP4D version. You could get the major version in the "About" tab and some details in the "Version details" tab. But nothing matches the "real" cloud pak for data version number.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 6 Not under consideration