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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Implementing a DB2 HADR Cluster Solution on AWS with Route53 in Place of Overlay IP.

As outlined in the IBM technote, implementing a DB2 HADR cluster using Overlay IPs presents several constraints. The Overlay IP must be unique within the VPC and on-premises environments and must adhere to the private IP address range specified in...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Under review

Watson Code Assistant Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks. This will improve developer productivity immensely.
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

We should be able to alter the timeout of GPU runtime jobs

We want to submit a GPU runtime job, but all GPU resources are currently in use. If the job stays in the queue for some time but still no resources become available, it will fail with the error message: failed: 0/7 nodes are available.... We want ...
5 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Under review

Allow the jupytertheme package to enable Dark Mode in Jupyter Notebook.

Dark Mode is configurable for the IBM data platform on IBM Cloud and is the default for on-premises Cloud-Pak-for-Data. However, this only applies to the Cloud-Pak-for-Data homepage. Dark Mode is not available for Jupyter Notebooks on either platf...
4 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Under review

Allow user to specify a fixed project ID when creating a project

Allow users to pre-define the project ID in a specified and tracked way. This would prevent projects from getting created with random sequences of characters every time and allow for a more centralized method of tracking.
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Improve Error Handling and User Feedback for Context Window Exceedance and vLLM Failures

Description Currently, when users attempt to submit requests that exceed the model’s maximum context length or encounter vLLM-related errors, the system behaves in two problematic ways: UI Behavior: The UI accepts input that exceeds the supported ...
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Instead of 504 errors, concise errors should be surfaced to the user, instead of having to dig through CP4D/vLLM logs

Instead of 504 errors, if it's something surfaced from vLLM like: 2025-08-22T00:41:31.362506975Z ERROR 08-22 00:41:31 [serving_chat.py:200] ValueError: This model's maximum context length is 128000 tokens. However, you requested 844373 tokens (840...
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Streaming for Audio Functionality

It would be beneficial to have a streaming option for the new audio functionality in watsonx.ai. This would enable live transcription, which is a common use case.
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add NetApp Trident storage support for WatsonX.AI (5.2 and onwards)

Our aligned storage solution on containerized applications is NetApp Trident. We have invested heavily in this, so it is our expectation that the enterprise grade solution of WatsonX.AI supports this storage solution. Forcing to use ODF just for t...
4 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review