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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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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...
about 2 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 ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0

Parity of watsonx.data with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsonx.data service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Curr...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Operating system support for RHEL on IBM LinuxOne

Customer having Db2 on zLinux systems needs datalakehouse functionality on zLinux. Reasons why on zLinux : spare capacity, zLinux SLA,SLO, high cost of Fusion system.
5 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

watsonx.data GenAI feature need support Chinese

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

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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

watsonx.data UI is too slow (both SW and Saas)

When accessing watsonx.data UI, particularly loading schemas and tables in Data Manager, it is expressed by many users (including clients), the response from the UI is awfully slow (to display the right information). This is not the case if connec...
11 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

allow bresize request on job using affinity string.

due to AMD Zen arch processor, we plan to use affinity string for all jobs to force job processes to run into the smallest number of ccd, to improve performance. but bresize increase command refuse to work when an affinity string is present in the...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Merge RES_REQ also when alternative RES_REQs are used

Currently settings from the app-profile are not merges with the job/queue settings when a alternative RES_REQ is provided in the submission command (bsub). We require this because we have a need to specify alternative RES_REQs in the submission an...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration