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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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Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow git operations on on-premise version of Cloud Pak for Data

Based on Watson Data API documentation there are API capabilities to do some basic git operations but they don't work on on-premise Cloud Pak for Data and support also confirmed this situation: "while this endpoint is documented (not fully but nee...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data 0 Under review

cpd-cli manage checking token auth for http 401 status before running other command

As referenced by support ( https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/authentication/configuring-internal-oauth.html#oa... ), tokens lasts for 24 hours, users usually do not know when is this expirity counting from. When running commands t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Custom Properties API

Currently, the API used to grab custom properties, GET /v2/asset_types, is not sufficient. If you pass parameter custom_attributes=true and permits_decorators= false, then it will retrieve all custom properties, but we cannot filter by those which...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Under review

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Folder in watson studio for DataStage files

For InfoSphere DataStage user who transition to NextGen DataStage, they find it very messy if they cannot organize DataStage related files in folder.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Devops pipeline in CP4D - automated deployment to next environment

Our team manages over 300 developers working on various projects in CP4D, utilizing a diverse array of assets. Due to ITSS requirements, it's essential to maintain a clear separation of duties between developers who implement solutions and the ope...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review