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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Search results: Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Some users need to be unable to create analytical projects.

We have customers who want to create as many analysis projects as they need, under proper management, and are concerned that the number of analysis projects will become disorganized and unmanageable. Since the current specification allows any use...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

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...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Security Settings for Services based on User Groups and/or LDAP

Administering users can be quite hard when every single user must be set manually. Especially in large environments. In CP4D user groups can not be used to control access to services like Cognos, PA, Discovery and so on. It would be lot easier, if...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to override FluentD logging config

IBM logging configuration setup on Kubernetes Service - that creates daemon set resource for "FluentD' whose configuration values are managed by IBM itself. The issue with the current setup is the inability to fine tune any of the configured value...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

"Create and run diagnostics" jobs action should available under "View platform health" permission

Related Epic CPDIDEAS-I-795 We have certain group of restricted users, who need to have permission for collect diagnostics data in case of any problem encounter with CPD and open support ticket with IBM. But these group of restricted users shouldn...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

In-built CP4D Cloudera Impala connector should allow for custom JDBC parameters

When creating a connection and selecting the cloudera impala connector, the form used to configure the connection does not allow for JDBC parameters to be added at the end of the jdbc connection string, e.g. jdbc:impala://<HOST>:<PORT>...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration