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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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Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Add Zeppelin notebooks

zeppelin notebooks have a number of nice features like built in graph capability, and it also lets you mix multiple interpreters into a single notebook. Yes you can do a lot of this with jupyter, but there will be those that have a large number of...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0

transformation rules outside of DataStage

We now have transformation rules outside of DataStage, so if there's a change, we do not need a DataStage engineer to change this transformation rule.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

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

About Notebook Data Lineage

My customer uses the Watson Studio's Notebook. Currently, it is not possible to visually see the relationships between the data and models used in the Notebook. They want to "automatically" visualize the relationships(lineage) between the data and...
over 2 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Multiple parallel session are running for Datastage cloudpak flows/pipelines

Hi Team, We see that our cloudpak datastage flows/pipelines can be triggered/run parallelly with multiple session at same time. That should not be the case. If one session is already running, another parallel session can not be triggered. This may...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Introduce a new shiny deployment option (similar to shinyapps.io)

Why don't we make a feature similar to the RStudio's "deploy to shinyapps" ability. So basically you can deploy a shiny app from your RStudio with 1 click to the cloud. Shinyapps.io is not an IBM site, may be we could introduce similar thing based...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 7 Not under consideration