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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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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Private topology to enable non OCP admins to perform admin tasks on CP4D clusters

Customer requires strict separation from OCP admin and CP4D admins. cross-tenant ‘cluster level’ components — like the license service, cpd-scheduler and cert manager (RH or CPFS’s) would need a cluster admin to manage Each CP4D tenant would have ...
about 2 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 2 years 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 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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.
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under 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.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Planned for future release

Selectable storage class for Storage Volumes

Cloudpak 4 Data in 3.5+ allows users to create (user) storage volumes from the UI. This feature has three options, one is 'external NFS'. This request is only applicable for this alternative. Technically this creates a PV and a matching PVC on the...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration