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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Monitoring capabilities for deployment spaces

As a CP4D administration I need to monitor the resources of the system. Today there is a monitoring for projects and more. But there is no monitoring for deployment spaces.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Support Blue/Green upgrades #cpfieldel

Feedback CP4D should support blue/green upgrades (yes, if the required hardware is in place). Business Justification The justification is that it helps CP4D become a mission-critical platform that doesn't need to be down for multiple da...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Storage Volumes

Monitoring of resource utilization is important for operational support and capacity planning. Currently Memory/CPU utilization is available. Add storage volumes in Monitoring of WKC system Add historical data greater than 7 days Add Capability of...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Ability to override FluentD logging config

IBM logging configuration setup on Kubernetes Service - that creates daemon set resource for "FluentD' whose configuration values are managed by IBM itself. The issue with the current setup is the inability to fine tune any of the configured value...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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...
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

Customer should be able to swap the storage type used in Cloud Pak for Data

Customer want to switch from NFS/Portworx based persistent volume storage used for Cloud Pak for Data into OpenShift Data Foundation(OCS) storage to make their cluster production ready. This will provide the snapshot capability for use with Backup...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration