Services that support FIPS
Upgrade to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 before IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6 reaches end of support. For more information, see Upgrading IBM Software Hub in the IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 documentation.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) standards and guidelines for federal computer systems that are developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
Most IBM Cloud Pak for Data software can be installed on a Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster that is FIPS-enabled.
If you need to run Cloud Pak for Data in a FIPS environment, use the following information to confirm that the services that you plan to install can run when FIPS is enabled.
| Service | Runs on FIPS-enabled cluster | FIPS 140-2 compliant | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Cloud Pak for Data control plane | ✓ | ||
| Cloud Pak for Data command-line interface | ✓ | ||
| Common core services | ✓ | ||
| Scheduling service | ✓ | ✓ | |
| AI Factsheets | ✓ | ||
| Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data | |||
| Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark | ✓ | ||
| Cognos® Analytics | ✓ | ||
| Cognos Dashboards | ✓ | ||
| Data Privacy | ✓ | ||
| Data Refinery | ✓ | ||
| Data Replication | ✓ | ||
| DataStage® | ✓ | ||
| Db2® | ✓ | FIPS support includes the data replication feature for Db2. | |
| Db2 Big SQL | ✓ | ||
| Db2 Data Gate | ✓ | ||
| Db2 Data Management Console | ✓ | ||
| Db2 Warehouse | ✓ | FIPS support includes the data replication feature for Db2 Warehouse. | |
| Decision Optimization | ✓ | ||
| EDB Postgres | No | ||
| Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop | ✓ | The Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop RPM installer is not FIPS-compliant. | |
| IBM® Match 360 with Watson | ✓ | ✓ |
For FIPS-140-2 support, extra configuration is required. For more information, see Enabling IBM Match 360 for FIPS compliance. |
| Informix® | ✓ | ||
| MongoDB | No | ||
| OpenPages® | ✓ | ||
| Planning Analytics | ✓ | ||
| Product Master | ✓ | ||
| RStudio® Server Runtimes | ✓ | ||
| SPSS® Modeler | ✓ | ||
| Voice Gateway | |||
| Watson Assistant | ✓ | ||
| Watson Discovery | ✓ | Smart Document Understanding is not supported with DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX files when FIPS is enabled. | |
| Watson Knowledge Catalog | ✓ | Communication with external Kafka does not work in a FIPS-enabled cluster. 4.6.3 or later FIPS support includes the MANTA Automated Data Lineage component, which provides the advanced metadata import feature. |
|
| Watson Knowledge Studio | ✓ | ||
| Watson Machine Learning | ✓ | ||
| Watson Machine Learning Accelerator | ✓ | ||
| Watson OpenScale | ✓ | ||
| Watson Pipelines | ✓ | ||
| Watson Query | ✓ | ||
| Watson Speech services | ✓ | ||
| Watson Studio | ✓ |
The new Visual Studio Code extension does not work on a FIPS-enabled cluster when
the CPD route uses |
|
| Watson Studio Runtimes | ✓ |