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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cloud Pak for Data

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SSO email update/missing issue with the existing OIDC/SAML users

As agreed in IBM PMR meeting(TS018353976) , please proceed with enhancement to reflect the email and name with OIDC/SAML group users. We noticed that Email and name expansion happening with user log session in real time from via OIDC; but under OI...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Login prompt option is not visible when we are using OIDC/SAML provider

When logging in using an OIDC provider, username and password fields in the UI are not visible to facilitate login for technical users. Generally for the personal login, OIDC should just login without prompting username and password. But we need t...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

MSSQL platform connection fails when user attempts to save the connection

Users are facing issues with MSSQL platform connection when attempting to save the connection for created projects. Users are able to test the connection successfully but are not able to save the connection which is stopping the users from perform...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Download cpdctl through IBM container registry

We've seen that a useful binary for cloudpak: oc-ibm_pak is distributed via your container registry.Would it be possible to do the same for the cpdctl binary? Info: https://github.com/IBM/ibm-pak Download from IBM container registry This system wo...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review