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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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CP4D Cartridge for ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise

Allow CP4D bi-directional access and connectivity to a full-fledged geographic information system (GIS) embedded as part of our data fabric and AI offerings. ESRI, who is the predominate GIS vendor, introduced a containerized flavor of their ArcGI...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Introduction of an overall view of all the jobs running

As an CP4D administrator I need the ability to see the jobs that are running (projects, spaces, spark (rest api jobs) etc.) where the actual resources are displayed. In this job overview I want the possibility to get logs, stop or start the jobs e...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Sliding window for the monitoring page resource usage

Currently, monitoring ages do not contain a sliding window for the resources data usage.There is available last 12h, last 24h, last 7 days and "all data available".It would be very useful to be able to search a specific time range.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Make version identification easier

At the present time, there's no way to get on CP4D interface CP4D version. You could get the major version in the "About" tab and some details in the "Version details" tab. But nothing matches the "real" cloud pak for data version number.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 6 Not under consideration

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

LDAP with SSO combining multiple ID field types #cpfieldcsm #cpfield

Bank of America uses LDAP with SSO. They were trying to use user search field as mail, but could not. The support case tech SME responded: Anytime an ID is used, you can not combine multiple ids as it will not serve the purpose. By default it uses...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Preserve and/or restore SSO configuration during an upgrade

Update : 05/17 Being Tracked here ICPD-1535 : Target v5.1 Bank of America experienced a problem during an upgrade of their platform where they lost the SSO configuration. It took two weeks to diagnose and fix the problem. See support case: TS01527...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration