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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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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

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

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

Support notebook code to write any file format and allow user to 'Export' (download)

Currently, DSXL only supports writing .csv files in Data Sets. In that case, the user can view the file and export/download the file to the local machine for further processing.Other file formats can be written, but the file cannot be viewed or ex...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Add NetApp Trident storage support for WatsonX.AI (5.2 and onwards)

Our aligned storage solution on containerized applications is NetApp Trident. We have invested heavily in this, so it is our expectation that the enterprise grade solution of WatsonX.AI supports this storage solution. Forcing to use ODF just for t...
4 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Ability to restrict custom runtime environment definitions to projects or/ and users

As a service provider I need the ability to define custom runtime environment definitions with different node-affinities. Not every tenant should be able to use e.g., node-affinities to large nodes. Therefore, I need to restrict the usage of custo...
about 3 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Allow Timestamp Functions/Operations on Data Flows

We are struggling to get data from remote connections/servers for a determined period of time. We can make some calculations with other data types, but not with timestamps. We end up retrieving massive amount of data into our cloud environment, im...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration