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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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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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Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
12 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

watsonx.data able to use the Ozone S3 as Object Storage

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera on watsonx.data to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage clas...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 2

Parity of watsonx.data with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsonx.data service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Curr...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Delivered

watsonx.data UI is too slow (both SW and Saas)

When accessing watsonx.data UI, particularly loading schemas and tables in Data Manager, it is expressed by many users (including clients), the response from the UI is awfully slow (to display the right information). This is not the case if connec...
10 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

watsonx.data - Confluence connector for watsonx.data Premium, web crawler and MCP server

The client has delineated 3 requirements to be able to proceed with PoC - 1. Confluence Connector for watsonx.data Integration Client requires a Confluence (on-prem) connector to enable ingestion into watsonx.data Premium. Lack of connector exclud...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Add Date Range to Completed Simulation Result Page

When using the simulation data range of 'server time absolute', you are unable to see what the date range selected was after the simulation completes. You are only able to see the record numbers that were simulated which isn't that useful at times...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Add feature IKC integration supports Spark engine in addtion to Presto (Java, C++) engines.

From the link, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=catalog-enabling-knowledgeIt says "IKC supports Presto (Java) connections only".And from the link,It says "You can define IKC governance policies for Presto (C++), and Pres...
7 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered