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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 Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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A utility should be provided to allow cloning of CP4D instances

For on-prem customers with prod and non-prod clusters, it is difficult to maintain a lower instance that reflects production. A production clone process / utility would be extremely helpful for upgrade evaluation, prototyping, troubleshooting and ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Custom Property Field value needs to read from a database and be indexed alphabetically

The functionality for a Custom Attribute is to connect to a database and then read data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed so that the user can search by typing (e.g., suppose a user wants to search for "Alex Brown" f...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Simplify setting up CP4D monitoring and alerting #cpfield

Setting up CP4D alerting (e.g. forwarding alerts to slack/email) should be as simple as when setting up alerting for OCP with Prometheus. Everything should be able to be done in the web console. This would enable people who are not experienced w...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Custom Auth/Authz layer support

US Federal Government customer has their own custom authorization layer for applications. Internally they support an ABAC based infrastructure. Therefore they have a more complex authorization layer than standard roles/groups. Need to have the abi...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists

Allow CPD Admin to list all "Connection" objects and check whether tha connection is using Personal or Shared Credential

CPD allows user to create connection with Personal or Shared credential. By the default, the option is default to Shared Credential. Almost enterprise organization prevent their user to use shared credential, so there is a requirement to allow CPD...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Change Services Name to MarketPlace and Location to under Resources

The little button that if you put your cursor onver it says Services is not prominent enough on the real estate. It needs to be moved most likely to Resources top of list - and call it MarketPlace - We continue have move and more partner add ones ...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Ford standard is to use GCP storage for applications installed on GCP. The following storage options are currently supported on Google Cloud infrastructure, But Ford needs Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data: • OpenShift Data F...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enhance project / deployment spaces overview options

When the CP4D user number grows so does the number of projects and deployment spaces. We want to use tags to filter the view of all projects so that we can summarize the usage of the platform per team / use case. There isn't an option to filter pr...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow users to change their language in profile

Our application is used by people from different countries. At the moment the only option of changing the language in CP4D is to change the default one in the browser. Having the option either on main page or profile would be a lot easier.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration