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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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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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

Unify the CASE package version number with CP4D refresh version number

We have too many version number in CP4D and its services. For example, CASE package version, Operator version, Operand version and Service version. Operator and operand versions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-ope...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Add configuration options for LDAP Names to GUI in CPD

There is currently no way to configure what names are pulled from LDAP in the user interface for LDAP Configuration in CPD. After working with Harjit Thind, it was decided that we should open a development request to expose these configuration opt...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

AWS EFS CSI Driver support

We had built CP4D env on AWS. Once v4.0 release, AWS EFS is not supported. Even other cloud service's NFS storages are still supported. We heard it caused by technical limitation of EFS with NFS protocol, and CSI(Container Storage Interface) has ...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Default access to All Users

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

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

Delete Old Platform Connections

As source systems are phased out of organizations, there is a need to remove previously configured platform connections in cloud pak for data, particularly when any assets from that platform connection have been removed from cloud pak for data. We...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Is a defect

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