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Marcin Paluch posted Sun November 23, 2025 05:25 PM

I'm having an error during installation of my watsonx.data developer edition on my windows OS. Has someone else experienced such a problem too? What happens in result effectively is that in the logs I don't see progress with adding pods and the PID of Helm is missing:

11/23/2025, 11:15:20 PM] Triggering Helm install in detached mode on Windows... [11/23/2025, 11:15:20 PM] Helm install triggered in background, PID: undefined [11/23/2025, 11:15:20 PM] watsonx.data dev chart installation run, check for logs if there is a failure [11/23/2025, 11:15:20 PM] Waiting for pods to be ready... [11/23/2025, 11:15:25 PM] Checking status of all pods after installation... [11/23/2025, 11:15:25 PM] Verifying pod status after Helm installation... [11/23/2025, 11:15:25 PM] Checking pod status (attempt 1/120)... [11/23/2025, 11:25:18 PM] No pods found in wxd namespace [11/23/2025, 11:25:18 PM] ⏳ Still waiting... ReadyCount=undefined, lhconsoleReady=undefined [11/23/2025, 11:25:18 PM] Waiting 30 seconds before next check...

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Shibil Rahman P posted Mon December 15, 2025 07:33 AM  Best Answer

Thanks @Marcin Paluch for the query, and apologies for the delayed response. 

Glad to hear you were able to fix the issue and move forward. Based on the error shown in the screenshot, the application was unable to locate the Helm path in the system environment variables.

In most cases, this issue does not occur because the installer app installs all prerequisites—including Helm—via winget, and the required paths are automatically available within the session. However, if this issue does arise, the recommended solutions are:

  • Manually add the Helm path to the system environment variables, or

  • Uninstall Helm manually and allow the installer app to reinstall it.

We also provide a README accessible from within the app that includes debugging commands and additional troubleshooting guidance. We’ll update that documentation to include this information as well.

Thanks again for your continued use and valuable feedback.

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Marcin Paluch posted Sat November 29, 2025 11:42 AM

Would this error has anything to do with it?

[11/29/2025, 5:39:43 PM] Executing: C:\Program Files\RedHat\Podman\podman.exe --version [11/29/2025, 5:39:43 PM] 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

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Marcin Paluch posted Fri December 12, 2025 03:36 PM

Ok wow this community isn't super responsive... :D 

But I fixed it myself and documented what I did here in my public github repository:

https://github.com/marcinpaluch-edu/IBM-WatsonX-Data-Developer-walkthrough

I hope the fix will be issued in the next version of the Wx.Data Developer free edition, it's a cool software! 

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Marcin Paluch posted Sat January 03, 2026 04:20 PM

Hi, no worries - I'm glad I solved it and I'm looking forward to seeing updated documentation or improved product. I can see it's still release 1.0.0. Is it about to change any time soon? I also can tell that Presto used in the Developer is bit limited speaking of functionality. I created this material: https://github.com/marcinpaluch-edu/IBM-WatsonX-Data-Developer-walkthrough
and I can tell you what I found:
1) I can't connect with python 3 - i need to import trino library instead and then connect
2) lack of MERGE INTO
3) lack of bucket transform in partitioning
4) no INSERT OVERWRITE
5) no temporary tables
6) the documented ODBC driver CDATA actually doesn't work unless I use and maintain extra custom views
There would be probably few more but this is already good list. 
There's also error from time to time which I can fix by redeploying new presto pod, documented here: https://github.com/marcinpaluch-edu/IBM-WatsonX-Data-Developer-walkthrough/blob/main/IBM%20WatsonX%20Data%20Developer%20walkthrough%20-%20Part%206%20-%20Troubleshooting.md
What I miss in the free developer is also the Milvus service.
Is there a way to export my manual query workspaces? how to find them in pods? Or do I need to copy/paste 1by1? 

Thanks. 

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