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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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watsonx.data

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.data Delivered

WDX - DBT - Creating tables in DBT without mentioning the S3 path

Got a temporary solution from IBM team to mitigate this. Please refer to the ticket - TS021709439 This should be an enhancement part of the product.
7 months ago in watsonx.data Delivered

WDX - DBT - Stop create schema in Watsonx DBT Framework

TSYS DBT Data Ops Team will create the catalogs and schemas in the S3 Bucket using an automation. However the IBM Watsonx package creates the schema using the schema provided as part of the profiles.yml, while running DBT. This should be avoided s...
7 months ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Watsonx.data spark engine volume needs cleanup for failed spark applications which have spark-events remaining inprogress.

Watsonx.data spark applications may encounter errors which cause kubernetes pods to be immediately terminated such as OOMKilled. Spark applications may not have a way to change the spark-event stored in the spark engine's volume from inprogress st...
5 months ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Spark jobs are in starting state and pods are all running in openshift UI when there is issue with volume

There should be timeout and jobs should fail. If it is in starting state, all the pods will be active and the jobs will pile up and even cron job couldn't clean that up. TS021767983-spark jobs are in starting state and pods are all running in open...
6 months ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Watsonx.data Data Policies need to offer full CRUD access permission support for Delta Lake tables

We are working on enabling Data Policies and are unable to define a policy which includes Alter, Insert, Truncate, Update actions when the policy is for a Delta Lake catalog. We can see these actions are available on Iceberg catalogs however. We n...
7 months ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Spark default environment variables user should be able to set using UI and API

As of today, Spark engine supports default Spark configurations that are set at engine level. Similarly, there is a requirement to have default Environment variables that a user should be able to set in UI as well as from API. Default environment ...
12 months ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Add feature IKC integration supports Spark engine in addtion to Presto (Java, C++) engines.

From the link, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=catalog-enabling-knowledgeIt says "IKC supports Presto (Java) connections only".And from the link,It says "You can define IKC governance policies for Presto (C++), and Pres...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data Delivered

Auto create table or prompt tp create tables based on content in object storage bucket.

Add a function to crawl configured buckets for files which can be configured or registered as an available table and surface these as a task to approve or reject. The crawler will be smart enough to understand the connector/catalog type and what c...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.data Delivered