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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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Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I would like to understand if there are cases w...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Info report about users who have not logged in for x days (configurable)

Admin should be able to login and generate a report about users who were given access but haven't logged onto the platform for 30 days (or 60 or 90 days).
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Need API-driven repository sync against Git providers

Need version control - driven sync against CP4D files and assets
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Global Environment Templates

I am writing to request the implementation of a feature that would greatly enhance the administrator experience on the platform – the ability for administrators to create/modify globally available custom environment templates. Currently, our platf...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

CP4D internal port details

Hi Guys, We have setup CP4D recently and doing through IT audit. Audit requested for all port used by CP4D pods and provide them with master list to identify only required ports in pods are opened up. Looks currently we do not have this list. It w...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Internal Port requirements for CP4D application

Hi Team, We have setup CP4D recently and going through IT audit. Auditor is asking all internal ports used by pods to be listed down and remove those unnecessary/unused ports. Understand we do not have such list now. It would be great if we docume...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

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