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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Search results: Cloud Pak for Data

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Current Limitations of CP4D Role Management

Currently, although CP4D roles allow editing to add or remove functionalities, they are not recommended for user customization. This is because any changes made are reset to the default configuration whenever the zen-watcher pods are restarted. As...
about 12 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Create a function to set MTQ parameter NumberofThreadsTo Use manually in the prolog of a TI process then set it back to its normal value in the epilog

This would stop issues where high touch processes conflict with other processes causing issues such as nulptr errors. It would also alleviate the risk of hanging up the instance where 2 processes attempt to lock the same objects and ultimately a s...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release