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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:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



Status Not under consideration
Workspace Watson Studio
Components Watson Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 23, 2020

Please provide a way to disable python 2.7 environment.

The Python Software Foundation has announced that Python 2.7 has reached end of life since January 2020 and will no longer receive security maintenance updates. As such, this component may be impacted by unpatched vulnerabilities.

According to official website of WSL, the Python 2.7 image will continue to be provided.

To prevent security problem, please provide a way to disable python 2.7 environment.

Needed by Date Mar 31, 2021
  • Guest
    Mar 19, 2021

    Python 2.7 is no longer supported and we have asked customers to migrate workload to Python 3.7. Python 2.7 is shipped with the product to make sure existing customers can successfully migrate to supported python version without breaking any existing code.


    We have already announced End of Life for Watson Studio Local and we are not adding any new features in this product. Customers are required to migrate to Cloud Pak for Data. On Cloud Pak for Data Python 2.7 is removed and only supported Python versions are available.