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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion posted Wed October 15, 2025 11:18 AM

Dear,

After TechXchange I was intruiged by the possibilities of WatsonX.data developer edition, however, I have not been able to install it properly and would appreciate some help.

I found the installer via the following link: Installing watsonx.data developer edition on Windows

Downloaded the installer and was ready to click install. The first issue already arises for the system requirements for me. 

 

It is asking for 150+ GB free disk space, which I appear to have, still the line is red.

I can luckily still click the button to start the installation. This however quickly stalls on the following command

podman machine init podman-wxd --cpus 10 --memory 16384

It stalls here as the max memory my system has is 16135.

I can edit the command to use 16135 and execute in my own command prompt. This works, and the installation manages to get past this point. Then however, it ultimately seems to get stuck in the Finalizing Setup step

According to the logs I would say it has concluded, but the setup progress tells me otherwise. Within the left side of the program, the line Dev edition keeps saying not installed.

At times the url given in the after set up steps works, but when I try to upload my MySQL JDBC driver nothing seems to happen. It has been stuck on validating for over an hour already.

I would appreciate any help in getting the developer edition to install successfully as I'm very excited about trying it out! Many thanks to everyone!

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Karthika Suresh

HI Annika, could you confirm which version of installer you have used?

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SIVANANDA YARRAMALA

Hi Annika, Thanks for trying watsonx.data developer edition.  a) Please share the installation log ( from top right on installer ).  b) Please share screenshot of the network tab on 'Web Developer Tools' when encountering the MySQL JDBC driver.

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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion

@Karthika Suresh I am using version 1.0.0 (20251005.107), which is the gui version of the developer edition. I have exported the installation log it creates and added it to this thread as well.

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Karthika Suresh

This issue is occurring because you’re using an older version. We’ll update the link to point to the latest version and let you know once it’s fixed.

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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion

Hi @Karthika Suresh, do you have an update about this already? The download link on the website does not seem to have changed yet.

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Paulo Klein

Hi, 

Are you able to log-in on WatsonX.data localhost portal? 

URL: 
Username: ibmlhadmin
Password: password

It seems that the Metadata Server (MDS) requires more than 500 GB of free space on your device for a successful installation.

However, WatsonX.Data should install without any issues.

You are using Windows (like me).Here some usefull commands:

List containers from Podman:

podman ps -a

Access container command line (the id comes from previous command)

podman exec -it 7f0f1e07f6c7 /bin/bash

Show Namespaces from Kubernetes:(need the previous command)

                kubectl get namespaces

Set  namespace default:

                kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=wxd

List all pods from namespace from rKubernetes:

kubectl get pods -n wxd

Access Kubernetes pod  using comand line:

            kubectl exec --stdin --tty wxd-pg-postgres-0 -- /bin/bash

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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion

I had to spend some time finding a laptop with more disk space, but I found one! The system resources are now green, and installation continues a bit more easily. Right now it does seem to get stuck on something during finalization.

Though it says installed, the finalization setup icon seems to appear still in progress.

Logging in to the localhost seems to work more often than previously. Still, uploading a driver causes it to be stuck in the validation step.

This is my upload of the MySQL connector j 9.5.0 jar. As can be seen from the image, it was uploaded a day prior. I did close down the developer edition, and when I opened it up this morning again, it was still visible that I uploaded a driver.

I have tried all the commands posted by @Paulo Klein, all but the last one work. I dont have a pod named wxd-pg-postgres-0.

I have added the logs generated by the installation.

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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion

Actually the last pod, wxd-pg-postgres-0 does exist, it is something related to the exec command that does not work


Edit:
I had to change the command to: kubectl exec -n wxd --stdin --tty wxd-pg-postgres-0 -- /bin/bash
This includes the namespace wxd which worked.

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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion

@SIVANANDA YARRAMALA I just saw your request for the network tab. The logs I have already attached to a different message. I'm uploading mysql connector version 8.2.0 now, one page said this would be the only supported version (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonxdata/standard/2.2.x?topic=source-mysql#mysql__section_kfk_5jz_g2c__title__1) 

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David Paul

Hi Annika, are you free sometime this week/ early next week to go over this in a call, so we can better assist the same? Thanks!

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Annika Dubbeldam IBM Champion

@David Paul Absolutely! That would be much appreciated. If you could please send a meeting invite to annika.dubbeldam@migrato.nl for any time this week, that would be great. My timezone is CET (Amsterdam).