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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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Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

quick link for SSO

Quick link to choose the default SSO as login method. We avoid process of choosing the method (admin,LDAP or SSO) and clicking blue button "LogIn" to have automatic login via SSO.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Planned for future release

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

#cpdivt-Unable to add a user that has an email that is already in the system

Many Users(admins usually) set up the Admin account with email so they can get the alerts after setting up SMTP.. But now one cannot have admin ADN account setup with the same email address. Solution architect recommended that there is no value at...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Info report about users who have not logged in for x days (configurable)

Admin should be able to login and generate a report about users who were given access but haven't logged onto the platform for 30 days (or 60 or 90 days).
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Installation procedure without "cloudctl" command nor GitHub

For security reasons, we would like to be able to install CP4D and the add-ons : without having to download anything from GitHub (we would prefer to download everything from the IBM container image registry "cp.icr.io" or from an IBM RPM package r...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Planned for future release

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release