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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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  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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Support for PlainID attributes in ABAC

Customer requests that PlainID attributes be supported in the Platform's existing ABAC framework.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

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...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add the feature for user behavior monitoring and statistics

From customers' feedback, it is expected to have a feature to understand the functions users using for operation and performance management. Therefore, a user behavior tracking function and statistics, like Google Analytics, will be helpful.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
11 months 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 ...
11 months 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...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

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

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

Operator updates less aggressive restart of instance pods

Subscriptions offer the possibility to choose between automatic and manual update approval. Choosing automatic results in direct updates of operators as soon as the subscription is updated. In our case, automatic update approval results in updatin...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration