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Status Under review
Workspace Knowledge Catalog
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 4, 2026

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Restriction Policy for User Permission Assignments

Addition of a restriction policy applicable to the set of permissions that can be assigned to a user profile.

Currently, there is no mechanism to restrict a specific group of users to a “viewer‑only” profile without granting them access to projects within the platform. We request the inclusion of a restriction policy—similar to the existing “Restrict operator access” permission available in DataStage—but applied to project membership. Such a feature would allow the client to define a user profile that is strictly limited to viewing capabilities, without access to any project‑related resources.

Ideally, users assigned to this restricted profile should not even see the Projects option in the main (sandwich) menu of Cloud Pak for Data. This functionality would improve administrative control by enabling exclusion rules based on user attributes.

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  • Guest
    Apr 16, 2026

    They want to make the catalog available for users who can only: access catalog, view tables within the catalog and access virtual tables by connecting to DV. They would like to limit this users and prevent them to create a project. I believe the current options we have available for the custom role creation does not support this use case. 

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  • Guest
    Mar 4, 2026

    Hi, this client would like to create a user role with only the following permissions: accessing data catalogs and consuming data from Data Virtualization. They want to restrict this group of users from being added to projects on CP4D. Today, they created a role called “Restricted User,” but there is currently no way to prevent these users from being added to projects by other users.
     

    I added a print image to show you what is the client's suggested enhancement. The idea is to create an assignment similar to the existing one that restricts users from creating and viewing DataStage flows (highlighted in pink), but applied to the projects area (highlighted in yellow). The goal is to ensure that this user profile remains strictly limited to viewing the data catalog on the platform.

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