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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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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...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Functionality already exists

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

Cloud Pak for Data can run and work well in the Antivirus SW scanning environment

Cloud Pak for Data takes strict security measures to address the security concerns from customer from both platform and underlying OS level as below: 1)Cloud Pak for Data Security White Paper https://community.ibm.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDo...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Mounting Shared drives with restrictive permissions

A way to mount shared drives (CIFS shares) in a capacity that utilises each users existing permissions on the remote share. Currently the way that we this is set up for CP4D (3.0.1) is utilising defined account credentials that are stored in a sec...
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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Serviceability Driven Asset Management (S-DAM) - a new approach to Asset Performance & Reliability Management

Asset Performance & Reliability Management is just on the verge of next massive transformation. Industry 4.0, Edge Computing, Hybrid Cloud and Hybrid Analytics are changing the age old reliability approach. Asset survivability is not the sole ...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Enable nested AD groups in LDAP Groups

Enable LADP feature that allows the use of nested AD groups. Most all of users are members of nested groups. LDAP groups are almost useless for us without the feature.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 2 years 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://...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration