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Cloud Pak for Data

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When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Folder Level Export

We are commenced our development work with CP4D and trying to migrate the flows and pipelines to CP4D model environment manually. When look for option to export on folder wise there is no option to export. It only allowing us to have individual ob...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Needs more information

Display Origin Dataset and Data Source Metadata for Virtualized Assets in CP4D Data Virtualization

Currently, when visualizing virtualized assets in CP4D Data Virtualization, the UI does not display metadata indicating the origin dataset or the data source used to create a specific virtualized asset. This lack of information makes it challengin...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Filters on RDS With Composite Keys

Filtering on a large RDS is cumbersome especially when you want to narrow down a specific combination of a code and two or more composite keys. Please add an option to filter on the "Key" (code|composite key 1|composite key 2)
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Future consideration

Standardize features across similar database connectors.

Certain features are not consistently available across similar connectors, leading to potential confusion for users. For instance, the 'PostgreSQL' connector supports the Data Quality output table, while the 'Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL' connector d...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

late-binding RunProcess parameters

We currently have a generic TI process that is able to execute asynchronous processes in series or parallel via tm1runti.exe. This approach allows for datatypes to be defined at runtime: tm1Runti -i ..\TM1ProcRun\tiprocess.config -connect SERVICE ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Expire API Tokens at a set number of days

The Lockheed Martin security team would like to see a feature to set an API token expiration. Ideally users will be required to put an expiration date when generating a token. Another option we would like to have is the ability to generate a repor...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration