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Search results: Connectivity

FileNet CPE - support for EntraID without ROPC

Currently, it is not possible to deploy Content Platform Engine with Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider without enabling the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) flow on the Entra ID side. Content Platform Engine requires a system u...
14 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Always on Availability in SQL Server platform connection

We are currently using the SQL Sever Driver in CP4D to connect to a specific database using the CP4D sql server platform connection and it is used for metadata import, metadata enrichment, DQ Rules and Datastage flows for ETLs among other things. ...
16 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Paging through many data assets

My project team has tens of thousands of data assets in a project and they need to work with all of those assets from the assets view, but it's difficult to do so (in version 5.1.3). They want to publish all the data assets to a catalog. 1) They c...
17 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Connecting to Amazon Neptune

The customer has a graph database on Amazon Neptune and wants to establish a connection between CP4D and Neptune so they can create machine learning models using those databases (and leveraging the GPUs available on CP4D). As a workaround, we will...
28 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit available data source options

The list of data sources in CP4D is very large and a lot of them are irrelevant to our users. There should be an option to limit what data source options are visible for users. And as an option it would allow restriction to apply so that users can...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Provide Metadata Import suport for Azure Synapse in CP4D

Problem Statement: watsonx BI doesn't support Azure Synapse, forcing Azuresynapse customers to move their data elsewhere to use wxBI. This creates extrawork and slow performance, making them less likely to adopt our platform. Solution Value Statem...
3 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

CP4D support for Oracle 26ai

Currently CP4D offers connectivity to Oracle 21c in Version 5.2.1. Need for CP4D to certify connectivity to Oracle 26ai as the company intends to migrate all Transactional Exadata Platform to Oracle 26ai.
6 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Support of Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication for Salesforce Connection in IKC

The only currently supported option to connect IKC with Salesforce is by using username/password/token authentication which leverages Progress Salesforce JDBC Driver: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=connectors-salesforce...
8 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

When we delete any platform connection, it should be auto deleted from projects also which have them connected

When we delete any platform connection, it should be auto deleted from projects also which have them connected. In absence of this, connections become stale at project level and user gets failure when they start using it next time.
8 months ago in Connectivity Submitted