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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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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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Search results: Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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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...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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 Glossary has a delay...
about 4 hours 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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration

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:...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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

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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

User activity logs on Cloudpak for Data Platform.

There is no logs of user activity on the platform. It would be great to have a user friendly page on the platform, where admin can just to look and get the details of user activity on the platform. Currently, i use zen-audit logs from cmd line to ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists