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Keep and maintain at least 2 or 3 Python and R runtime versions in each release of CP4D

Multiple companies and industries work with CP4D for data science models. These models use multiple versions of Python or R runtimes and different open-source libraries that are compatible with the runtime version used to build the model. Clients ...

removing project asset via ibm-watson-studio-lib for Python

https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/ws-lib-python.html?context=cpdaas The ibm-watson-studio-lib library for Python provides access to assets. Asset file can be created via wslib. However, there is no project API or wsl...

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...
22 minutes ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
41 minutes ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
about 5 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Data Protection Rules - Support of does not contain action

The action block in Data Protection Rules limits the condition to "That contains any", we need to be able to choose "Does not contain any" like in criteria block in order to achieve our needs (see attached image). Currently, classification at colu...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Refinement of cards customization

We would like to manage Configurations and settings Home page cards based persona instead of permissions. Below is list Home Page Cards Alerts All governance artifacts Categories Deployment spaces Identity and user access My in...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Read SQL from file in Teradata Connector Stage

Teradata Connector in CP4D does not have an option to read an SQL from File. Currently tenants are using different stages like Execution command and user variable in the sequencer to dynamically pass the SQL reading it from the file, we need an op...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted