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Cloud Pak for Data

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Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

enhance filter for DB object to import into IKC

After executing metadata import from DB2 I need to review list or imported obects and remove some of them which wouldn't likely be the subject of further metadata enrichment work. Using the interface I cannot find a way to isolate one type from an...
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Vault Kv1 Support

Currently we are trying to utilize our existing vault infrastructure but we are running into an issue where kv1 is not supported. Anyway to include this soon by chance?
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

MDM CR operator should check for all the valid connections/path at the time of reconciling .

Operators are designed to watch for changes in a set of resources, which can include Secrets , ConfigMaps , and other Kubernetes resources. The operator should watch for changes to resources (including secrets) and then take action accordingly. Bu...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Need functionality to Exclude Assets/schemas from MDI Scan by Name/Pattern

Need new feature/option that allows users to exclude specific data assets or tables from a Metadata Import (MDI) scan based on a naming convention or pattern. This would prevent the catalog from being populated with unnecessary assets and improve ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Submitted

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

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...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Detection of remote data source configurations

Add a feature that enables the detection of remote data source configurations, which in turn can inform the configuration of DV CID and instance-level params to make querying those sources more efficient. This feature could also be scheduled to pr...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration