IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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SUN-LINK — Passive sunlight communication for off-grid edge telemetry

watsonx.data should support ingestion from passive optical communication links — data encoded in modulated ambient sunlight via smart-glass-style modulators — as a first-class transport for edge telemetry where radio is unavailable, congested, or ...
about 1 hour ago in watsonx.data Submitted

WEATHER-MESH — API overlay mesh for atmospheric and elemental data on the data fabric

watsonx.data should offer a "weather mesh" overlay: a managed API-mesh layer that ingests live atmospheric feeds — ozone levels, gases, elemental/particulate readings, standard weather APIs — and overlays them onto the enterprise data fabric as qu...
about 2 hours ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Improve logging visibility and usability

Spark logs visible in the watsonx.data UI, instead of user having to download it from COS - Spark logs do not appear on the console, and clicking 'View logs' fails. Fix log retrieval so driver and executor logs can be viewed directly in the watson...
about 7 hours ago in watsonx.data Submitted

OUTAGE-SIGHT: Predictive Last-Mile Outage Detection from Telemetry Graphs

Graph neural networks can predict equipment failures before they cause service disruptions, and digital-twin damage modeling works at carrier scale (Verizon, May 2026). OUTAGE-SIGHT productizes this for last-mile and access networks: ingest router...
about 19 hours ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Multi-Bucket Support for a Single Iceberg Catalog in watsonx

IBM Iceberg currently supports a one-to-one relationship between an S3 bucket and an Iceberg catalog. While this model is sufficient for simple single-bucket use cases, it creates a limitation for enterprise customers that require a single logical...
28 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Request to Implement Rotation and Retention Controls for Persisted Spark Driver Logs in Watsonx Data

The log volume will get full if the job is running continuously, rolling log will be cleaned up by cron job
2 months ago in watsonx.data

Query migration from existing query processor to IBM Query browser

TSYS/FIS is integrating its infrastructure platform to IBM bases services. The existing query browser saves client queries where clients can execute the queries anytime to get the data from the existing datalake. After migrating to IBM platforms t...
3 months ago in watsonx.data Needs more information

Watsonx.data support for delta catalogs using 3-part namespace

Currently watsonx.data spark only supports 2-part namespace which means we specify the "schema_name.table_name" and Spark assumes this is available under spark's internal "spark_catalog" catalog. Watsonx.data already supports the use of separate c...
3 months ago in watsonx.data

Enhancement Request: Provide End-to-End Audit Traceability for Spark Application Stop Events in watsonx.data

We would like to request an enhancement to improve auditability and traceability for Spark application stop events in watsonx.data. Currently, when a Spark application transitions from RUNNING to STOPPED, the available logs do not provide sufficie...
3 months ago in watsonx.data Future consideration

Ability to Modify Existing Component Configurations in watsonx.data Infrastructure Manager

In the watsonx.data Infrastructure Manager, there is currently no option to modify a component's configuration after it has been added. For example, when adding an HDFS storage component, several files must be uploaded to configure Kerberos authen...
4 months ago in watsonx.data Submitted

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