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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:


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,

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  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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Add a way to add custom links to the context switcher drop down (or any other menu)

Allowing users to customize the links within the menus will allow them to better manage the navigation within software hub. In my case i would like to link out to a seperate application running on my cluster, so users can favorite the CPD url in t...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Enable namespace‑scoped image pull secrets for IBM Licensing

Our organization must avoid using cluster‑wide (global) image pull secrets and instead rely exclusively on namespace‑scoped image pull secrets, in line with our internal security policies. While most Cloud Pak for Data components now support this ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

CP4D add support for ImageSetConfiguration

The client has requested to use oc-mirror to get the image listing as well as mirror the images as part of their Cyber Security Scanning requirements.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

Provide unified UI for configuring and running CP4D backup/restore

The current process for the backup/restore of CP4D is complex and requires a number of steps that are needed for setting up the backup/restore. Any of these steps can go wrong. Just for the initial setup, it took multiple working sessions between ...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Add UI Support to View CPD and Identity Provider Group Members

Cloud Pak for Data administrators need a UI-based capability to view group membership for both CPD groups and external identity provider groups, such as Azure Entra ID groups. Currently, administrators do not have a convenient way in the CPD UI to...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0

Multitenancy support for CP4D MLOPs use cases, Openscale, IKC, Spark (Analytics Engine + WatsonX.Data spark)

Wells Fargo has two CP4D installs that require multi-tenancy support. One install's use case is MLOps, while the other is pure Spark usage. They would like to separate/isolate workloads by tenants, while maintaining a uniform UI. IBM Sosftware Hub...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

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...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration