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Job run display of runtime parameter values no longer shows any encrypted parameter names

This used to work, I believe it disappeared as part of the fix for case TS020849668. It is important to see all of the parameters used at runtime, now that any encrypted parameter names are no longer shown, it leads developers to assume that the p...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Token exchange - Use token created in customer's OIDC enterprise IdP to login in CP4D

Context: Customer is building in .NET their own Data Marketplace based on IBM CP4D (IKC+DV). One of the principal users will be Healthcare, that wants to publish and share data between users in a secure platform. Then, because of security requirem...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

cpdctl "Total Time" value is incorrectly computed

The time shown for multiple compile operations is incorrect and can be misleading
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Future consideration

Charge out model for CPD. Single Tenant, broken down by business unit, broken down by country........

Customers have been asking for a charge out / charge back model for a while. Ritesh Gupta is aware of this request.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Provide ability to schedule CPD DataStage jobs to run multiple times per day.

We have various jobs that need to be run multiple times per day, at 2 hour intervals or 4 times per day at scheduled times.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Add a Custom URL to the Home Page

Allow the customer to add a custom URL to the Home Page under Support.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

cpd-cli manage command suddenly fails with inconsistent SSL error/timeout when http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are configured

The failure occurs even when correct http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are configured in the environment and inside the OLM Utils container (olm-utils-play-v3). The OLM utility Python client ignores the configured NO_PROXY values. As...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Add "select all" option when selecting item list that spans more than one page

I'll use the "Job runs" view for this example, although it applies to any list that spans multiple pages. In the screenshot, I have a job called Test_CFF_Write_ARND_ds_flow" which has run a total of 3601 times. I'd like to select all of these runs...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted