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Cloud Pak for Data

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User should be created automatically from connected LDAP group and not after the first login

LDAP connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Needs more information

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to support a configurable list separator

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to configure list separator as semicolon. In Europe decimal notation is comma which means that MS Excel converts comma separated files to semicolon separated files automatically when loaded. This wil...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Cannot find a way to remove spark applications and history from analytics engine spark (cp4d).

The customer is using Watsonx.data with both Analytics Engine Spark and Native Spark. Over time, a large number of Spark applications and historical records have accumulated since last year. While there is a workaround to remove some records from ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Utilize SSL certificates in Platform Connections

External content stores are registered as Connections in CPD platform with the credentials and SSL certificates. However, the certificates are not automatically imported/copied when configuring an instance of Cognos. It requires an additional step...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Powerplay Studio / PowerPlay as a container

*** 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 ) *** PowerPlay Studio / PowerPlay as a container required to allow smooth transition from Cognos Analyt...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 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 ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection.

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection. Currently, there is no direct way to manage data assets by filtering them through a specific connection. Adding this feature would provide users with more...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Resolve major security violations

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirements. During a POC, we discovered that the Db2 portion of GDSC results in a number of s...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Remove need for cross-namespace permissions in OLM by providing raw YAML files

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirments. In order to do that, we must remove any component that requires cross-namespace pe...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted