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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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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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Regex for Business Terms

There could be a feature where Business Terms could be automatically linked to fields/tables using REGEX, just like what happens with data classes.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

BSI certification requirement: Secure Session Management

As part of the “BSI IT Grundschutz” certification for watsonx on Software Hub, following product enhancement needs to be fulfilled in a future release. Feedback from Mehboob Alam was incorporated. Building block CON 10 Development of Web Applicati...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Provide use case level authorization in addition to the existing user level authorization

The idea is a use case related authorization to provide a more fine granular means than the current user based authorization. What we are looking for is that for each user the Active Directory will maintain a list of use cases the users are allowe...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Delivered

Include special characters in password to login to Data Virtualization

To login to Data Virtualization, the password of the user have characters as "ñ", we are in Spain and our policies rotates the passwords each period and contains this character sometimes. We don't have problems to login another platforms with this...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

The customer would like to integrate CP4D with MS Azure's key vault for external secrets management.

The customer manages all the secrets with MS Azure's key vault. For example, to setup all Cloud Pack for data TLS connections we need to use a customer CA certificate managed by MS Azure's key vault.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

Administrators can limit resource usage on a per project or per user basis

In CP4D 2.5, any user can create data transfer projects and analytics projects, and there is no limitation about creating projects. In addition, there is no way to limit usage of resources per project or user. ("resource" means disk space, memory,...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

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...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Ability to determine through Monitoring whether or not sufficient resources to start an R or Notebook runtime environment are available per node

As Data Scientist I frequently need to start runtime environments. Often these are small enough and they quite naturally fit the available resources. Sometimes however, there is a very large environment needed. We would like to easily see and dete...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered