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Search results: Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Options on disabling ciphers algorithms for CP4D Services

Will need the option to disable some crypto algorithms or be FIPS compliant as this is impacting our deployment security compliance for the organisation. As of right now, we do not have the ability to disable/removed the non compliant crypto algor...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Use Cognos Data Module Editor for general use as query generation frontend in CP4D e.g. as a component in Data Management Console

Intro: HUK came up with a requirement to use Cognos (-Analytics) Frontend as a modeling tool do define complex queries. Their use case was mostly a data preparation / ELT which is not well suited for Cognos. But they have sound knowledge performin...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Selectable storage class for Storage Volumes

Cloudpak 4 Data in 3.5+ allows users to create (user) storage volumes from the UI. This feature has three options, one is 'external NFS'. This request is only applicable for this alternative. Technically this creates a PV and a matching PVC on the...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Ford standard is to use GCP storage for applications installed on GCP. The following storage options are currently supported on Google Cloud infrastructure, But Ford needs Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data: • OpenShift Data F...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Customer should be able to swap the storage type used in Cloud Pak for Data

Customer want to switch from NFS/Portworx based persistent volume storage used for Cloud Pak for Data into OpenShift Data Foundation(OCS) storage to make their cluster production ready. This will provide the snapshot capability for use with Backup...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Being able to label/tag data source connection

With a large number of data sources (connections) currently residing in the enterprise it is desirable to tag the data sources with multiple identifiers. For example, Application unique Id, Application Name, etc. This is not possible today to iden...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

Delete Old Platform Connections

As source systems are phased out of organizations, there is a need to remove previously configured platform connections in cloud pak for data, particularly when any assets from that platform connection have been removed from cloud pak for data. We...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Is a defect