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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Hookpoint support (Ability to call Shell Scripts, Java Scripts etc.)

We got the request that it should be possible to invoke external non-R functions (e.g. Shell Scripts, Java Scripts, etc)
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Support custom R operations/libraries in Data Refinery

We got the feedback in several discussions that users like to invoke their own libraries in Data Refinery
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Support Watson Discovery service as a data destination inside of Data Platform

The Watson Discovery service has ingestion APIs that allow developers to create an interface for sending data to Discovery for use in their end application. Currently, these APIs are their only means of sending data to Discovery, and it is up to e...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

Upgrading R to version 3.4

I'm enjoying using Data Science experience but I reached the point where many packages won't update because the version running is 3.3. I believe adding an upgrade cycle to Data Science Experience will make it more relevant to the fast pace develo...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Notebook resources in watson machine learning

We would like to have the resources (cpu and memory usage) for notebooks in machine learning.
almost 3 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Make Cognos Analytics (or other reporting tool) part of the WDP

While the investment into DSX and WML is proceeding, a reporting service such as Cognos Analytics on Cloud is sorely missing from the WDP. Customers frequently require a reporting component in their cloud analytics solutions. The fact that Cognos ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Document in "What's New" the code package (Python, R, etc) changes/deprecations to the default runtime environments per CPD release

For Source Code runtime environments (e.g. Python, R, etc.), the code packages available in the default environments for a particular IBM Cloud Pak for Data version are not documented in the "What's New" section.Thus, prior to a client's platform ...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Remove the messy object storage credentials from the user's view in notebooks.

Currently, to read/write files from/to object storage in a DSX notebook, a user must use an "Insert to code" button for a file shown in a GUI. This button will paste a large amount of credential code into the notebook. Unfortunately, this approach...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Safe Restart after consistent dead kernel or failed kernel restart attempts

Whenever I am developing some new scripts/codes, sometimes it can break the jupyter notebook kernel and there is no way I can restart the kernel as if I am running in my own machine. It would be a good option for a one-click safe restart to avoi...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Have the ability to drag / drop as much as we can

This is a general comment. Over the years we've built and worked on many IDE, and richer they are with features, better adoption it gets. The analogy of a notebook is somewhat similar to what a scripting developer would go through in perl/shell c...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration