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Cloud Pak for Data

Need UI feature through which the CP4D administrator can create and manage guaranteed resources pool(s) for high priority workload based on label selectors

CP4D customers (RBC in this case) have many users working on the platform to create various jobs, tasks and different types of AI/ML workload on daily basis. Some of these projects have higher priority and more strict timelines than others, wherea...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Cognos Analytics version with 2-3 years maintenance, independently from other software versions deployed on same cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Any dependency to the version of another software deployed as well on the same Software Hub cluste...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Different Cognos versions within one CP4D cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Different Cognos versions within one cluster must be possible.Helmcharts are required on-site for ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change the JWT 'iss' claim to the introspection endpoint URL of the issueing IM/Zen

Customers' landscape still is sort of silo-ed, meaning there's a large department managing BAW , and there's another big department managing FileNet. Current production for bothruns on WebSphere traditional (tWAS), ( deployed on CloudPak Systems a...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0

Multiple Identity providers(idp)using oidc with Oauth for token generation)

Add multiple idp support for Zen Custom tokens for CP4BA - we have multiple IDPS onsite. Westpac consumers using JWT token generated by idps from frontend applications. This JWT token is locally validated by Websphere when request is received for ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to setup Maintenance Mode to prevent users from login and executing new job's.

Hi Team, As Admin team has the responsibility of maintaining CPD environment for datastage, we wanted check if we can enable a capability to add a Maintenance Mode to prevent users from logging and initiate any of the new job's. We need this capab...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Need Postgres connector to not use positional binding

We have tested with positional binding for one usecase and wanted to test it for multiple scenarios and it would be better if IBM can make it independent of positional binding.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

CP4D - Cloudera Impala Connector - Truststore/SSL

In Legacy DataStage, we use connect to Hive/Impala using a cacerts which is defined that sever level. we just pass the location of the cacerts and datastage is intelligent enough to use that cacerts and establish the connectivity. But in CP4D we d...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted