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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.

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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Support for Shielded VM on GCP

D&B is key customer who is looking to deploy Cloud Pak for Data on GCP with Shielded VMs. It is critical for success. all nodes will be shielded nodes and they will be shielded at all times. i.e. we cannot disable shielding during install/upgr...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Allow customizing the alert email message (summary + description)

We send CP4D alerts by email and we would like to do a filtering by severity and component, maybe more variables. This allows us to prioritize our incident management and would be of great value.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enable to set storage quota on projects / spaces

We want to avoid possible incidents if a runtime in a project gets out of hand and starts saving too much data locally within the project / space in CP4D. This can cause the underlying PVC to run out of space which can impact other users on the pl...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Monitoring capabilities for deployment spaces

As a CP4D administration I need to monitor the resources of the system. Today there is a monitoring for projects and more. But there is no monitoring for deployment spaces.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Ford standard is to use GCP storage for applications installed on GCP. The following storage options are currently supported on Google Cloud infrastructure, But Ford needs Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data: • OpenShift Data F...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Backup Utility POD image

Hello, At present a CP4D admin ( Namespace Admin) needs to install and run CPD-CLI on a Virtual machine/Laptop in-order for his/her to run the OADP back-up. In an Enterprise world, this doesn't provide best Operation efficiency as there would be m...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Customer should be able to swap the storage type used in Cloud Pak for Data

Customer want to switch from NFS/Portworx based persistent volume storage used for Cloud Pak for Data into OpenShift Data Foundation(OCS) storage to make their cluster production ready. This will provide the snapshot capability for use with Backup...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

CPD Service Catalog to add support to manage business partner license information

Business partners' services are listed in the Service Catalog. Once enabled, an administrator needs to apply license info that applies to the service. The administrator also needs to know how much resource units (or other metrics) are entitled and...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Unify the CASE package version number with CP4D refresh version number

We have too many version number in CP4D and its services. For example, CASE package version, Operator version, Operand version and Service version. Operator and operand versions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-ope...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

CP4D handling of users which are no longer authorized

If a Cloud Pak for Data user is no longer able to logon (removed from a AD group that is mapped to CPD group) then the user record in "Access control" should be marked as deleted. It should no longer be possible to authorize this user to any CPD s...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration