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watsonx.data

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watsonx.data able to use the Ozone S3 as Object Storage

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera on watsonx.data to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage clas...
2 months ago in watsonx.data 2

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 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Under review

Customer is using Nexus IQ to scan SW images for potential CVEs before the SW is approved for installation. Customer is asking if IBM can use this tool internally to reduces the risk of sending them images with CVEs.

This is useful to proactively identity CVEs so that we can document and set the expectations with the customer when we deliver the SW to them.
13 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
7 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
28 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Support Spark & Gluten in BlueRay

Now we are onboarding Gluten and Bolt has a very big ingestion need, we wanted to see if we can bring Spark and Gluten to BlueRay to further build a complete lakehouse reference customer story covering their full use case.
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Azure Saas support for watsonx.data

A lot of customers are using Microsoft Azure and they would like to be able to consume watsonx.data as true Saas on such platform
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Enable JWT authentication in watsonx.data

Currently authentication to watsonx.data through REST and JDBC can only be done by specifying a user and password. Customer does not allow user and password authentication for any of the business applications. When users log on to their desktop, t...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Customer looking to have connectors for workday and concur applications

Customer wanted to build the analytics platform using watsonx.data. And they looking to connecters for workday and concur
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Needs more information

Support WITH RECURSIVE in PrestoDB (watsonx.data)

PrestoDB in watsonx.data doesn't support WITH RECURSIVE statement which is a blocker for selling watsonx.data to some of our potential customers. It would be important to have it supported as other data lakehouse solutions support it. For example ...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Needs more information