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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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Notebooks should highlight errors

If a notebook has an error, the offending line should be highlighted. If you don't check the output, it's possible you might not even realize there was an error. For example: #Print out the schemaexample1_df.printSchema() #Advanced Option 1example...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Tie comments to notebook cells

Currently comments are notebook level. I'd prefer to see comments tied to a notebook cell. Users could view all comments or comments for whatever cell they are on. This would allow for far better feedback in a collaborative environment IMO.
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
about 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Adapter to realtime SAP Data Structures

Most of the "relevant" data in commercial data processing resides in SAP Business Suite Systems. Traditionally this data is loaded in SAP's Business Warehouse (BW) for further storage, cleansing, analytics..... Old school, but very prevalent in th...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Python/Scala/R Flow node from notebooks

it must be possible to write python/R/Scala nodes. It would be very cool to have a Jupyter magic in a notebook to write a cell function as a node to use inside the flows.
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Better data input (e.g. csv/code snippets) in notebook

This is a suggestion based on my preference with Azure Studio. I enjoy the experiment flow diagram within Azure where I can load a set of data, process it and visualize the subset in a notebook. I am also able to include a set of custom code snipp...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Improve working with connected data and connections

It is correctly required to create a connection object in a project and then to create another "connected data" object. It would be much more convenient to directly browse the connection within the context of the connection in order to create the ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

DSX collaboration

Having the option to mask collaborators and allow some collaborators no to be shown within the same project
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Functionality already exists

gitlab integration with DSx Projects

gitlab integration with DSx Projects
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

A live notebook catalog to allow keep track of various artifacts within a notebook

As the notebook gets big, it becomes a bit hard to manage the content and remember where what is. And we sometimes create DF / DS that have already been created or cached. If a running catalog is available that keeps track of local and global asse...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Functionality already exists