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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

Cyclops in the same timezone as system

We are operating on CET/CEST timezones and noticed that in query history we have times that should not exist from the period between 2025-03-30 02:00:00 and 2025-03-30 03:00:00. At 2:00 AM the clocks were pushed 1 hour forward to 3:00 AM so there ...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

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

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
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Download cpdctl through IBM container registry

We've seen that a useful binary for cloudpak: oc-ibm_pak is distributed via your container registry.Would it be possible to do the same for the cpdctl binary? Info: https://github.com/IBM/ibm-pak Download from IBM container registry This system wo...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Online backup and restore to a different cluster using OADP and ODF

A full volume backup (not just snapshots) using OADP and ODF is only possible using an offline backup. The current offline backup solution results in several hours of downtime for our watsonx cluster. As platform usage continues to grow, this down...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

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

New cards on homepage - Categories where I have 'xyz' category role and My artifacts where I am added as a steward

1. There should be a card which shows categories where user has some category role added. Users should be able to select multiple category roles or create multiple category cards with different roles. 2. There should be a card which shows all the ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists