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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Hello, We are using Storage Volumes to access NFS shares in Watson Pipelines. The Storage Volumes come out of the box with an interactive File Browser that allows you to both download and upload files. There is an API to stop this file browser, ho...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Documentation Issues - Cloud Pak for Data (#MLOps_AOT)

With this idea we want to point to the documentation issues we have encountered on various Cloud Pak for Data services.Example: 1-Documentation / Explanation of deployment space concept (WML) Deployment spaces are not exactly explained. How to use...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

Backup Utility POD image

Hello, At present a CP4D admin ( Namespace Admin) needs to install and run CPD-CLI on a Virtual machine/Laptop in-order for his/her to run the OADP back-up. In an Enterprise world, this doesn't provide best Operation efficiency as there would be m...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Info report about users who have not logged in for x days (configurable)

Admin should be able to login and generate a report about users who were given access but haven't logged onto the platform for 30 days (or 60 or 90 days).
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Need API-driven repository sync against Git providers

Need version control - driven sync against CP4D files and assets
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted