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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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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:


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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,


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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


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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 Platform

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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...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Use Cognos Data Module Editor for general use as query generation frontend in CP4D e.g. as a component in Data Management Console

Intro: HUK came up with a requirement to use Cognos (-Analytics) Frontend as a modeling tool do define complex queries. Their use case was mostly a data preparation / ELT which is not well suited for Cognos. But they have sound knowledge performin...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

XML input and output decommission

One challenge my client is facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my client has around one hundred thousand mappings, so their team has bee...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add the feature for user behavior monitoring and statistics

From customers' feedback, it is expected to have a feature to understand the functions users using for operation and performance management. Therefore, a user behavior tracking function and statistics, like Google Analytics, will be helpful.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Allow central configuration of platform settings (especially for SSL CA setup for Git)

Many platform parameters need to be configured using config parameters In order to configure the CA for a self-hosted Git server in R Studio, the CAs needs to be added through the Git integration token in the UI. Even though this works, it is coun...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Improved filtering in CP4D Monitoring (sliding window in time)

We’re very happy with the added Monitoring capabilities in CP4D 4.6.2, which go a long way to cover our Monitoring needs. However, in order to be more independent of additional custom-developed monitoring to be exposed via Grafana, it would be use...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists