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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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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...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 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

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...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

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...
about 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...
about 2 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...
over 2 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 ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Montoring / Altering via SNMP

We miss a feature to send alerting SNMP traps about WSL alerts (see https://content-dsxlocal.mybluemix.net/docs/content/SSAS34_current/local/alerts.html) Currently only mail to administrators works. This is not very well integration into our comp...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Sign and publish container images signing evidence for customer to whitelist them

It is observed that some of the images get blocked by the Antivirus at some customers during image pull on false-positive threat detection basis. Signing the container images and publishing the signing evidence can help with whitelisting these ima...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Is a defect