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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Submitted

Resource Limits are not available to set as part of installation. These need to be set at deployment level. We've manually assigned as part of namespace and the same resource limits will be applied to all the pods

Resource Limits are not available to set as part of installation. These need to be set at deployment level. We've manually assigned as part of namespace and the same resource limits will be applied to all the pods
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Talend-spark ETL job support on watsonx.data Spark engine.

A customer is using Talend studio to develop and run ETL job that uses Apache Spark on CDH 7.1.7. It will be a plus point for watsonx.data to support integration with Talend use the watsonx.data Spark engine to run the same ETL job benefits - easy...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 3 Under review

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 ...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0

Visual Studio Code (vscode) extension for watsonx.data support for Spark 4

Per https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/IBM.watsonx-data/changelog v1.2.0 we expected to see support for Spark 4 engines which would match the watsonx.data release 2.2.1 support for Spark 4. However, the extension does not actually provide ...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0

watsonx.data GenAI feature need support Chinese

Text2SQL functionality, as well as GenAI integration capabilities need support Chinese.
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

watsonx.data - Confluence connector for watsonx.data Premium, web crawler and MCP server

The client has delineated 3 requirements to be able to proceed with PoC - 1. Confluence Connector for watsonx.data Integration Client requires a Confluence (on-prem) connector to enable ingestion into watsonx.data Premium. Lack of connector exclud...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review