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


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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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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.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 6 Not under consideration

Support for PlainID attributes in ABAC

Customer requests that PlainID attributes be supported in the Platform's existing ABAC framework.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Restrict access to API Functionality

Hello, We have raised ticket number TS013623750 to ask about the ability of restricting access to the API Key functionality and were told to raise an AHA as there is nothing planned. The idea behind this AHA is the requirement of being able to the...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Options on disabling ciphers algorithms for CP4D Services

Will need the option to disable some crypto algorithms or be FIPS compliant as this is impacting our deployment security compliance for the organisation. As of right now, we do not have the ability to disable/removed the non compliant crypto algor...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Needs more information

Option to delete backend PVC upon Storage Volume deletion

We would need to have an option to delete the back end Openshift PVC upon deleting the Storage volume from CPD UI. Based on our experience and the case I raised with IBM Support, looks like this doesn't happen now and PVC will still remain as is e...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

XML input and output decommission

One challenge my client is facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my client has around one hundred thousand mappings, so their team has bee...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration