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Cloud Pak for Data

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Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Support multiple SAML IdP connection

Context Customer is using CP4D 5.0.3 for Data Virtualization and IKC project. Also, they are using Watson Studio, WML and Datastage. And plans to use Db2 Warehouse and OpenScale. They plans to use our Platform to Govern all different data sources ...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

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

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Expanded Locking Options and Partial Load Capability in DataGate GUI

Current Behavior: When executing a LOAD operation through the DataGate GUI, the only available option is a full load with row-level locking. This limits flexibility for use cases that require partial data loading or alternative locking mechanisms ...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Submitted

Authentication API support for additional content types

The CP4D authentication API only accepts the content type application\json Customers identity provider can only send the request with application/x-www-form-urlencoded
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

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.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release