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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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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Support Request: Integration of cpd-cli Backup and Restore with Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)

To meet a critical customer requirement, we are seeking support for the integration of the cpd-cli backup and restore functionality with the Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), which is the customer’s homologated enterprise backup sol...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Request to introduce a new feature - Batch RDV Delete

Please refer to the support case for more details. Some operations may take longer to complete due to the data volume involved. Until such an operation is finished, its future effect is not yet presented by UI. That is because the Glossary has a d...
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

SSH/SFTP Server for PVC Filetransfers

We would like to have the ability to run a ssh/sftp server, to be able to easily upload and download files from/to cloud pak for data. Most of our current processes are scheduled with IWS and there are simple shell file copys implemented. Reasons:...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 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.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review