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Cloud Pak for Data

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The Watson Discovery Web crawler should be able to crawl sites protected by ForgeRock Authentication SSO.

Currently the web crawler is not able to crawl sites protected by complicated protocol like SAML or OAuth, hence ForgeRock SSO Authentication does not work.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Need to support namespace based pull secrets for cp.icr.io

When deploying cloud paks into a multi-tenant cluster, there are security issues with having to update the global pull secret. This would allow any tenant in the cluster to pull images from the registry regardless of if they had a valid license an...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Adding support for three-level namespace structure in WQ

We aim to implement a three-level namespace structure, i.e. <Catalog or Database Name>.<Schema Name>.<Table Name>. This structure is pivotal as the majority of our virtualized tables sourced from Databricks Unity Catalog which us...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enhance monitoring within cloud pak for data on resources used by users

Today, a customer can monitor pods in cloud pak for data. But it is difficult to find what user is using a lot of resources. It requires investigation. The customer has created a script that lists watson Studio Jupyter, spark rstudio usage by pods...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Manage APIs as assets in the catalog

The customer is managing its own proprietary repository of apis to various systems and databases. The content of the repository is a set of YAML files and JSON files. Those files contain metadata (I will upload to the case a sample yaml file) . Th...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

IA GUI does not display decimal trailing 0s

IA GUI does not display decimal .00; if decimal .50, it displays only .5, but if decimal .15, it normally displays. when they check in the Database, they have a decimal .00, and then check on the thin client it has a decimal .0000000000 Can we mod...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

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