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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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 Platform

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Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes.
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

User welcome mail

When adding a new user to CPD we have to provide a mail address and a default password to create the user. After that, we have to send the username and the password to the user on another way. It would be nice to automatically send a welcome mail ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Installation procedure without "cloudctl" command nor GitHub

For security reasons, we would like to be able to install CP4D and the add-ons : without having to download anything from GitHub (we would prefer to download everything from the IBM container image registry "cp.icr.io" or from an IBM RPM package r...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Planned for future release

Migrate oadp from oadp-operator namespace to. openshift-adp namespace

Customer upgrade from CPD with oadp installed in oadp-operator version as required by IBM, but openshift suggest namespace is openshift-adp. It cause the must-gather info collection different from other openshift default component.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Support for PlainID attributes in ABAC

Customer requests that PlainID attributes be supported in the Platform's existing ABAC framework.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

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.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists

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

Add support for Dynatrace for click stream analysis

To manage, monitor, and improve the use of Watson Knowledge Catalog we need to monitor who is signed on, what operations they are performing, and what artifacts or assets they are using. We need to do historical click stream analysis to monitor th...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration