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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Make version identification easier

At the present time, there's no way to get on CP4D interface CP4D version. You could get the major version in the "About" tab and some details in the "Version details" tab. But nothing matches the "real" cloud pak for data version number.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 6 Not under consideration

Restrict access to API Functionality

Update 03/28/2024 Disable API Keys at platform level. - Low effort. - 5.0.x The ability of enabling api keys for certain users. - Medium effort The ability of setting up an expiration date. - High effort Hello, We have raised ticket number TS01362...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Option to delete backend PVC upon Storage Volume deletion

We would need to have an option to delete the back end Openshift PVC upon deleting the Storage volume from CPD UI. Based on our experience and the case I raised with IBM Support, looks like this doesn't happen now and PVC will still remain as is e...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

The ability for the user to set the login of persistent cookies with an expiration date instead of session cookies

The topic is the ability for the user to set the login of persistent cookies with an expiration date instead of session cookies. Our business justifies such a need, among other things, for security reasons.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Shielded VM on GCP

D&B is key customer who is looking to deploy Cloud Pak for Data on GCP with Shielded VMs. It is critical for success. all nodes will be shielded nodes and they will be shielded at all times. i.e. we cannot disable shielding during install/upgr...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Logs translated to english

Updates 03/28/2024. Two requirements - (1) This is clarified by ING few weeks back they want the user interface in a language other than whats set in Browser Locale. Engineering researching and would do some PoC. May be large effort and a larger i...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Options on disabling ciphers algorithms for CP4D Services

Will need the option to disable some crypto algorithms or be FIPS compliant as this is impacting our deployment security compliance for the organisation. As of right now, we do not have the ability to disable/removed the non compliant crypto algor...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Needs more information