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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 Platform

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Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Storage Volumes

Monitoring of resource utilization is important for operational support and capacity planning. Currently Memory/CPU utilization is available. Add storage volumes in Monitoring of WKC system Add historical data greater than 7 days Add Capability of...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Ability to override FluentD logging config

IBM logging configuration setup on Kubernetes Service - that creates daemon set resource for "FluentD' whose configuration values are managed by IBM itself. The issue with the current setup is the inability to fine tune any of the configured value...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Capture CP4D UI Configuration and Deployment Responses - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

I am working with an IBM team implementing CP4D across a large industrial enterprise for both operational and business use cases. I have advocated using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like RH Ansible to provide consistency and stability across...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add configuration options for LDAP Names to GUI in CPD

There is currently no way to configure what names are pulled from LDAP in the user interface for LDAP Configuration in CPD. After working with Harjit Thind, it was decided that we should open a development request to expose these configuration opt...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 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...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 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...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Show the name instead of username

Hi, We are using SSO as our primary authentication for the CP4D project. Our SSO is configured to authenticate with something we call NISS (this in our business is considered confidential information ). Still, when using this ID as authentication,...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Dark Mode

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes.
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Cloud Pak for Data can run and work well in the Antivirus SW scanning environment

Cloud Pak for Data takes strict security measures to address the security concerns from customer from both platform and underlying OS level as below: 1)Cloud Pak for Data Security White Paper https://community.ibm.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDo...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration