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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

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Adding "All users" collaborators when creating categories via csv

When in IKC we create a new root category using the ui or the apithe new category created has as collaborators in access control both the user who created the category with category role owner and the "All users" group that has viewer as category ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

Test and validate CP4D, IKC, and Manta functionality on OCP-Virtualitzation

Verizon is evaluating alternatives to their virtualization technology (VMWare) and OCP-V is the main option they are considering. They would like to make sure that Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Knowledge Catalog will work reliably and with the same o...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

User activity logs on Cloudpak for Data Platform.

There is no logs of user activity on the platform. It would be great to have a user friendly page on the platform, where admin can just to look and get the details of user activity on the platform. Currently, i use zen-audit logs from cmd line to ...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Don't deleted RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Country...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Integrate with Hashicorp External Vault with alternate method (not token based) such as VaultStaticSecret

We have been able to successfully configure Cloud Pak for Data to integrate with HashiCorp External Vault to retrieve content of secrets. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=vaults-connecting-external#taskadd-vaults__steps__...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Filtering & export for activity log

After a while the current activity log will become quite long, and it will have a mixture of different types of content - edits, workflow actions, pure comments etc. It will be difficult to e.g. focus only on comments, because they're mixed with e...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review