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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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watsonx.ai

Role-Based and Project-Based Access Controls for watsonx Models

There needs to be a more granular access control mechanism within watsonx that allows administrators to manage access at the individual model and agent level. Organizations should be able to approve, restrict, or revoke access to specific models b...
18 days ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

Reliable Support for Custom Hardware Specifications for Python Functions

Background and Problem Statement: In the current production environment of watsonx.ai (WML on CPD/Software Hub, tested with versions 5.2.2 and 5.3.0), the use of custom hardware specifications for Python Function deployments is not reliably possib...
17 days ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

Watsonx.ai on-prem monitoring of token & compute usage

At present, WatsonX.ai software does not support automated extraction of Large Language Model (LLM) usage metrics. Although token usage information is accessible, it is often buried within log files or only displayed in the prompt lab window. For ...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - allow/restrict git integratod project type creation

With CP4D roles we would like to manage what users are allowed to create git integrated projects and who are not allowed to just create regular projects.
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

Keep and maintain at least 2 or 3 Python and R runtime versions in each release of CP4D

Multiple companies and industries work with CP4D for data science models. These models use multiple versions of Python or R runtimes and different open-source libraries that are compatible with the runtime version used to build the model. Clients ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai Not under consideration

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit what assets can be used by user

There should be an option to restrict what kind of assets are available to any given user of the platform. Some users might only need to use SPSS streams, some only need to work with Jupyter Notebooks. It would be a good to have a role where we co...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - allow/restrict job setup functionality

Through roles we would like to have the ability to restrict the jobs functionality in projects so some users can use it and others cannot.
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

Include Custom Runtime Environments in Deployment Space Export/Import

When users migrate Deployment Spaces between IBM Cloud Pak for Data environments (e.g., for disaster recovery or CI/CD purposes), custom runtime environments used by assets are not included in the export/import process. This limitation causes impo...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai Under review

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai Under review

Add Job-to-Connection Mapping Visibility in the CP4D Jobs Tab

Cloud Pak for Data users and administrators need the ability to identify which project-level or platform-level connection is being used by each job directly from the CP4D Jobs tab. Currently, when reviewing jobs, there is no clear or centralized w...
18 days ago in watsonx.ai Submitted