Switching between experiences

IBM® Software Hub is the foundation for multiple solutions. If your environment includes multiple solutions, you might need to switch between experiences to access specific features.
An experience provides focused access to the tools that you need to complete specific tasks. For example:
  • In the IBM Data Product Hub experience, teams can focus on publishing and sharing data products.
  • In the IBM watsonx™ experience, teams can focus on training, validating, tuning, and deploying generative AI solutions.

Each experience has a dedicated home page. The cards that are available on the home page help you get started with the solution and give you quick access to the tools that you need.

To switch between experiences, click the Switch locations icon (Switch locations icon) in the toolbar:
  • If there are multiple solutions installed, you can select a different experience from the menu.
  • If there is only one solution installed, there is only one experience in the menu.

Services available in each experience

Use the following table to determine which experiences each service is available in when the service is installed.

  • ✓ - The service is available in the experience.
  • API - You can see information about the instances that you have access to from the Services > Instances page in all experiences. The instance is available only through API calls.
  • Instance - You can access instances that you have access to from the Services > Instances page in all experiences. The instance opens in the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data experience.
  • Pop-out - You can access the service from the Services > Instances page in all experiences. The service opens in a different browser window.
  • * - 5.2.0 You can access the services from the Services > Instances page in the specified experiences. The service opens in a different browser window. (Replaced with the Business Intelligence experience in Version 5.2.1.)
Software Business Intelligence Code Assistant™ Data Fabric Cloud Pak for Data Data Product Hub watsonx watsonx.data™
AI Factsheets       ✓   ✓ (watsonx.governance™)  
Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark     ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓
Cognos Analytics Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
Cognos Dashboards       ✓      
Data Gate       ✓      
Data Privacy       ✓      
Data Product Hub     ✓   ✓   ✓
Data Refinery     ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓
Data Replication       ✓      
DataStage     ✓ ✓     ✓
Software Business Intelligence Code Assistant Data Fabric Cloud Pak for Data Data Product Hub watsonx watsonx.data
Data Virtualization Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance
Db2 Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance
Db2 Big SQL       ✓      
Db2 Data Management Console Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance
Db2 Warehouse Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance
Decision Optimization       ✓   ✓  
EDB Postgres Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop       ✓   ✓  
IBM Knowledge Catalog       ✓      
IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium     ✓ ✓     ✓
Software Business Intelligence Code Assistant Data Fabric Cloud Pak for Data Data Product Hub watsonx watsonx.data
IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard       ✓      
IBM Manta Data Lineage     ✓ ✓     ✓
IBM Match360       ✓      
IBM StreamSets Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
Informix Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
MANTA Automated Data Lineage       ✓      
MongoDB Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
OpenPages       Pop-out   ✓ (watsonx.governance)  
Orchestration Pipelines       ✓   ✓  
Planning Analytics Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
Software Business Intelligence Code Assistant Data Fabric Cloud Pak for Data Data Product Hub watsonx watsonx.data
Product Master Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
RStudio Server Runtimes       ✓   ✓  
SPSS Modeler       ✓   ✓  
Synthetic Data Generator           ✓  
Unstructured Data     ✓       ✓
Voice Gateway API API API API API API API
Watson Discovery Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
Watson Machine Learning       ✓   ✓ (watsonx.ai™)  
Watson OpenScale       ✓   ✓ (watsonx.governance)  
Watson Speech services API API API API API API API
Software Business Intelligence Code Assistant Data Fabric Cloud Pak for Data Data Product Hub watsonx watsonx.data
Watson Studio       ✓   ✓ (watsonx.ai) ✓
Watson Studio Runtimes       ✓   ✓ (watsonx.ai) ✓
watsonx.ai           ✓  
watsonx Assistant Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
watsonx BI ✓ * * * * * *
watsonx Code Assistant   ✓          
watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed   ✓          
watsonx Code Assistant for Z   ✓          
watsonx Code Assistant for Z Agentic   ✓          
watsonx Code Assistant for Z Code Explanation   ✓          
Software Business Intelligence Code Assistant Data Fabric Cloud Pak for Data Data Product Hub watsonx watsonx.data
watsonx Code Assistant for Z Code Generation   ✓          
watsonx.data Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out
watsonx.data Premium             ✓
watsonx.data intelligence     ✓       ✓
watsonx.governance           ✓  
watsonx Orchestrate Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out Pop-out