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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,


Post your ideas

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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Created on Oct 3, 2023

CP4D: High Availability (HA) and disruption free upgrades during version /OCP upgrades.

Our customer is requiring a “highly available” deployment (described as 99.5% up time) to support a business critical workload. They are using  many of cloud Pak for data  services.  However , they are running few mission critical data analytics pipeline, which leverage Watson Studio/Runtimes and Watson Pipeline services to orchestrate the jobs. Hence  these services need to be  highly  available, during regular operation and  even during any  product versions /OCP upgrades.

Services used : CPD Platform, Watson Studio/runtime, Watson Pipeline ,Watson Machine Learning , Analytics Service , Watson Knowledge Catalog, DataStage Enterprise Plus, DB2 Warehouse.

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