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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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Search results: Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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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

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

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

Cloud Pak for Data platform and services inherit underlying OpenShift Proxy settings

Cloud Pak for Data (and all Cloud Paks) deployed within OpenShift On-Premises Connected (non-air-gapped) clusters are often behind an HTTP PROXY. When installing the OpenShift Cluster, the HTTP PROXY variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy) a...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Log the Source Client IP Address in the system logs / audit logs

As per our security requirements, we need to see the IP Address of the machine from where the user has accessed the IBM Cloud Pak for Data web console. In the current system, we don't see any evidence for the same. I have worked with the support t...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Delivered

Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Being able to label/tag data source connection

With a large number of data sources (connections) currently residing in the enterprise it is desirable to tag the data sources with multiple identifiers. For example, Application unique Id, Application Name, etc. This is not possible today to iden...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

Demonstrate the ability to support one screen review of rules, results and business requirements

As a Data Steward, I have to be able to review rules, results and business requirements on one screen
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

Enhance Authentication and Authorization

Currently LDAP integration with SAML SSO (OKTA in our case) is not supported in IBM Cloud Pack for Data. This needs to enabled as as Authentication can work with SSO and Authorization will be using LDAP groups.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered