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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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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:


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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,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

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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Custom Auth/Authz layer support

US Federal Government customer has their own custom authorization layer for applications. Internally they support an ABAC based infrastructure. Therefore they have a more complex authorization layer than standard roles/groups. Need to have the abi...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Selectable storage class for Storage Volumes

Cloudpak 4 Data in 3.5+ allows users to create (user) storage volumes from the UI. This feature has three options, one is 'external NFS'. This request is only applicable for this alternative. Technically this creates a PV and a matching PVC on the...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Platform management UI health check enhancements

Situation: Currently there is no single holistic UI/command to validate the overall health of CPD and installed cartridges' /modules. Pain Point: some functionality or dependencies could be missing and users, application support would not know and...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Functionality already exists

Mounting Shared drives with restrictive permissions

A way to mount shared drives (CIFS shares) in a capacity that utilises each users existing permissions on the remote share. Currently the way that we this is set up for CP4D (3.0.1) is utilising defined account credentials that are stored in a sec...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Workflow notification list strictly include assignees only

Workflow notification list strictly include assignees only
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Functionality already exists

Configure review as one of workflow required steps

Configure review step as one of workflow required steps
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Need sizing template for clients to fill

Currently the sizing tool for Cloud Pak for Data is internal to IBM. Sizing is either done by the Expert Labs team or by IBMers. There is need to collect information to fill the sizing template. The Watson Assistant and Discovery services for exam...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Functionality already exists