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Adding "thinking" parameter in Wastonx SDK and API for Granite-3.2-8b-Instruct to access the dynamic reasoning capability.

Reason:As per https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-3-2-open-source-reasoning-and-vision, granite 3.2-8b-Instruct comes with a dynamic reasoning capability which can be achieved using the "thinking" parameter by setting "thinking=True"...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Under review

Check for and prevent multiple parameters with the same key name

In the May 21, 2025 Control Hub update, we introduced a new feature in the API regarding pipeline parameters. This feature introduced an issue in an edge case (the presence of duplicate parameters) which we did not anticipate. As a followup in the...
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Milvus services on watsonx.data SaaS on IBM Cloud do not seem to support the bulk_import() method

Previously, we switched over how we insert vectors into our collections to use do_bulk_load per the watsonx.data documentation. It looks like do_bulk_load is getting deprecated, and the recommended method is now bulk_import. We’re trying to switch...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

A coherence-based AI memory system that overcomes catastrophic forgetting by using entropy-weighted resonance fields to enable interpretable, continual learning across tasks.

This idea introduces a coherence-based memory architecture for AI systems that solves the problem of catastrophic forgetting by dynamically weighting memory contributions using entropy and phase alignment. Unlike traditional models that rely on st...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add onconfig parameter to limit TLS ciphers used.

Add onconfig parameter to limit TLS ciphers used. Perhaps called SSL_CIPHERSPECS Similar to DB2 parameter ssl_cipherspecs https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=instance-supported-cipher-suites
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enhancement request for DELETE method support in Write mode in Redshift connector

It seems we currently don't have DELETE method in Write mode of Redshift Connector stage. We know that we can use "user-defined" sql statement with positional parameters to use DELETE statement, but we want to use DELETE method in Write mode in Re...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

HostFactory provisioned CPU total limit

Currently, there is limit per provider and max instance per hour per requestor. We request to have total number of CPU limit at HostFactory and configurable. Say there is a parameter called HostFactory_CPU_limit set to 100. I have providerA, B, an...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Custom Properties API

Currently, the API used to grab custom properties, GET /v2/asset_types, is not sufficient. If you pass parameter custom_attributes=true and permits_decorators= false, then it will retrieve all custom properties, but we cannot filter by those which...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Under review

JSON files generated by GNM for functions

The JSON files generated by GNM for functions such as NAME_MATCH_WHY_JSON, GNR_ORG_WHY_JSON and EDIT_DISTANCE_WHY_JSON are flat structured with all the data parameters at the same level. There is an issue with the root/tree structure of the JSON t...
8 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Under review

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