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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

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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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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

Security Settings for Services based on User Groups and/or LDAP

Administering users can be quite hard when every single user must be set manually. Especially in large environments. In CP4D user groups can not be used to control access to services like Cognos, PA, Discovery and so on. It would be lot easier, if...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 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.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

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

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support Blue/Green upgrades #cpfieldel

Feedback CP4D should support blue/green upgrades (yes, if the required hardware is in place). Business Justification The justification is that it helps CP4D become a mission-critical platform that doesn't need to be down for multiple da...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Platform management UI health check enhancements

Situation: Currently there is no single holistic UI/command to validate the overall health of CPD and installed cartridges' /modules. Pain Point: some functionality or dependencies could be missing and users, application support would not know and...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Functionality already exists

Monitoring of Storage Volumes

Monitoring of resource utilization is important for operational support and capacity planning. Currently Memory/CPU utilization is available. Add storage volumes in Monitoring of WKC system Add historical data greater than 7 days Add Capability of...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Ability to override FluentD logging config

IBM logging configuration setup on Kubernetes Service - that creates daemon set resource for "FluentD' whose configuration values are managed by IBM itself. The issue with the current setup is the inability to fine tune any of the configured value...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration