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Search results: Cloud Pak for Data

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SSH/SFTP Server for PVC Filetransfers

We would like to have the ability to run a ssh/sftp server, to be able to easily upload and download files from/to cloud pak for data. Most of our current processes are scheduled with IWS and there are simple shell file copys implemented. Reasons:...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

Update the permission of file and folder created as part of volume connector

While using Volume connector, the folders/files getting created with it were with 750 and 644 permission respectively. Expectation is to have the files or folder created with 664 and 775 respectively. Reference case:TS019729960
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Future consideration

Save to File option error

We are currently working on migrating OpenPages+Cognos from traditional VM to CP4D and see that one of the feature is having issues and details given below: When we execute a report and trying the save the report output to a file system (Save to F...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Automated resource management for CP4D via API and YAML (or equivalent) – for users, groups, projects entities

As the user numbers on the on prem CP4D and wx.ai clusters are scaling the client wants to be able to limit resources for the developers in an automated way via APIs defined by YAML or similar. Limiting resources is available as of today in a supp...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to support a configurable list separator

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to configure list separator as semicolon. In Europe decimal notation is comma which means that MS Excel converts comma separated files to semicolon separated files automatically when loaded. This wil...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Datastage Migration Service Should Honor CP4D Folder Structures

In the context of a CP4D Datastage Project with Folders enabled... When a migration is performed (in my case from cpdctl) using an ISX file containing Legacy Datastage Assets (e.g. 11.3) that also exist in the CP4D project, the migration service b...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

CLI to EFS Storage Volumes for Development and Deployment

This is request to have the CLI to access the storage volumes to develop and modify the UNIX Scripts or other files which will be accessed by CP4D. Currently, all the development of the scripts is happening on local unix servers and uploading the ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review